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Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

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Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the â€œwork of culture,â€Â 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 enduring inequalities of race, class and nationality. The cultural economy promises to make life better, particularly in cities, but not everyone can take advantage of it for decent jobs.

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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 DÃ¡vila 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.Â

Country	USA
Author	Arlene Dávila
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: NYU Press
EAN	9780814744307
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0814744303
Label	NYU Press
Manufacturer	NYU Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	241
PublicationDate	2012-04-16
Publisher	NYU Press
ReleaseDate	2012-04-16
SKU	9780814744307
Studio	NYU Press

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