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Author Dávila, Arlene M., 1965- author.

Title Culture works : space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas / Arlene Davila
Published New York : New York University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 232 pages)
Contents Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls in Puerto Rico -- Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy -- The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world -- The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino -- Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's Nyuorican interventions -- Tango tourism and the political economy of space -- Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism
Summary 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 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Arts -- America
Cultural industries -- America
Neoliberalism -- America
Latin Americans -- Economic conditions
Latin Americans -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Arts
Civilization
Cultural industries
Cultural policy
Latin Americans -- Economic conditions
Latin Americans -- Social conditions
Neoliberalism
SUBJECT Latin America -- Cultural policy
Latin America -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074881
Subject America
Latin America
Form Electronic book
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