Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas
ISBN-13:
9780814744291
ISBN-10:
081474429X
Author:
Arlene Dávila
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
NYU Press
Format:
Hardcover
241 pages
Category:
South America
,
Americas History
,
Southeast Asia
,
Asian History
,
World History
,
Customs & Traditions
,
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780814744291
ISBN-10:
081474429X
Author:
Arlene Dávila
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
NYU Press
Format:
Hardcover
241 pages
Category:
South America
,
Americas History
,
Southeast Asia
,
Asian History
,
World History
,
Customs & Traditions
,
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Sociology
Summary
Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas (ISBN-13: 9780814744291 and ISBN-10: 081474429X), written by authors
Arlene Dávila, was published by NYU Press in 2012.
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Description
Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the “work of culture,” an argument made by enthusiasts of creative economies that culture contributes to the GDP, employment, social cohesion, and other forms of neoliberal development. While culture does make important contributions to national and urban economies, the incentives and benefits of participating in this economy are not distributed equally, due to restructuring that neoliberal policies have wrought from the 1980s on, as well as long-standing social structures, such as racism and classism, that breed inequality. The cultural economy promises to make life better, particularly in cities, but not everyone can take advantage of it for decent jobs. Exposing and challenging the taken-for-granted assumptions around questions of space, value and mobility that are sustained by neoliberal treatments of culture, Culture Works explores some of the hierarchies of cultural workers that these engender, as they play out in a variety of settings, from shopping malls in Puerto Rico and art galleries in New York to tango tourism in Buenos Aires. Noted scholar Arlene Dávila brilliantly reveals how similar dynamics of space, value and mobility come to bear in each location, inspiring particular cultural politics that have repercussions that are both geographically specific, but also ultimately global in scope.
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