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Culture is NOT an Industry
6 March 2024 | 16:15 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
Join Justin O’Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy at University of South Australia and Visiting Professor School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, in conversation with Dr Peter Campbell, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production.
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