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2. Creative Economy, Degrowth and Aesthetic Limitation

verfasst von : Mark Banks

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Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter offers a critique of current creative economy policy, and its obsession with economic growth over and above other social and ecological priorities. It explores the possibility of more ecologically sustainable and ‘degrown’ creative economies of the future—forms of cultural production and cultural policy that take seriously ecological limits and tries to imagine sustainable creative economy futures.

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Fußnoten
1
Ecological refers generally to the symbiotic and integral relations between people, animals, processes and environment and, more specifically in the case of this project, the relations between the social, the economic and the environmental.
 
2
See, for example, Bazalgette (2017), Canada Heritage (2017), DCMS (2016), DDCMS (2017, 2018), Dossi (2016), European Commission (2018), France Creative (2013), Government of Australia (2013), BMWi (2017) on Germany, and HM Government (2017, 2018).
 
3
As Steffen Roth writes: ‘people find it hard to define their lives as footprints of their omissions and abstinences as long as these forms of less are not good for a more of something’ (2017, p. 1038).
 
4
In a professional and not just amateur sense, degrowth perspectives tend to place cultural production firmly in the realm of leisure, often content to imagine (in Marx-like fashion) post-work utopias where people can enjoy ‘being creative and spending unnecessary and unproductive time in experimenting with beauty [where] the right to philosophize, to play, to sing or to write will be communal’ (Kallis 2018, p. 121). This is fine, but cultural production is not yet theorized as part of a vibrant and functioning ‘degrown’ or post-growth economy.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Creative Economy, Degrowth and Aesthetic Limitation
verfasst von
Mark Banks
Copyright-Jahr
2020
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49384-4_2

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