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Producta50: An Introduction to some of the Relations Between Culture and the Economy


This volume consists on a compilation of texts which, from different viewpoints and approaches, seek to define a framework and trigger a reflection around the relations established between the spheres of culture and the economy, understanding the complex relations derived from these two areas and their possible consequences and repercussions. The different articles that constitute this book have been written by a wide range of culture researchers, anthropologists, economists, sociologists or activists, and with their contributions they open up a series of questions and debates which we would like to define as the economic reality of culture.

In this book we see how a set of different axes or themes start emerging such as debates around cultural policies, gentrification, brand production processes, value of culture, copyright, knowledge and skills, markets, cities, care and, obviously, cultural work. These help to understand a complex scenery in which two spheres, culture and economy, compete, collide, and sometimes coexist without willing to acknowledge each other. In this book one can not expect to find solutions or answers on how to escape the precariousness of the field or how to deal with the creative industries, but it helps to start an analysis on an ever-changing and unstructured work field, which now, is starting to invade a number of contemporary work realities.

Authors: Mari Paz Balibrea , Jordi Bonet i Martí, Antonella Corsani , Anthony Davies, Manuel deLanda, Pedro Jiménez , Maurizio Lazzarato, Celia Lury , Jorge Luis Marzo, Donald McNeill , Mao Mollona, Susana Narotzky, Emmanuel Rodríguez, Enzo Rullani, María Ruido & Jaron Rowan , Adela Santana, Tristes Tópicos, Joaquín Barriendos, Cristián Gómez, Cristina Vega Solís, Marina Vishmidt and Steve Wright.