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World Cities Culture Report

A new edition of the world cities culture report has been published by the Greater London Authority. The report , now in its 4th edition, offers a pioneering benchmarking of cultural assets and resources in world cities based on a systematic methodology devised by Professor Andy Pratt. The report has been developed and further elaborated…

CREATIVE ECONOMY EMPLOYMENT IN THE EU AND THE UK: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

A new report is published by NESTA today, written by Andy Pratt and colleagues Max Nathan and Ana Rincon-Aznar. This report is part of a larger Nesta project to compare the size, growth, and industrial and occupational structure of the UK’s creative economy with other countries. The creative economy is defined as employment in the…

Changing Elites in Turkey

Aysegul presented a paper on Turkish elites at the Changing Elites in Europe conference at LSE in late November. The conference aimed developing new understandings of how elite formation and their mobilities might be changing across different nation states in Europe. Paper presentations ranged from methodological approaches to theoretical questions; presenters questioned conceptions of ‘internationality’ of…

Strangers in a Strange Land II

Diana Yeh in association with Moongate Productions is organising a second event in support of the development of an original stage play about the World War One Chinese labourers. The long buried story of the approximately 140,000 Chinese labourers who lent vital assistance to the allied Great War effort is only now beginning to emerge. These mainly poor, uneducated…

Innovation and Creativity, new article by Andy Pratt

Andy has had an article published today in the Journal of Business Anthropology entitled “Do Economists Make Innovation; Do Artists Make Creativity? The Case for an Alternative Perspective on Innovation and Creativity”. The essay challenges the view that the supply and distribution of knowledge is hindered by regulation, and that public organisations such as universities “get in…

Jo gives talk at Brighton with Roshi Naidoo on heritage and diversity

Jo Littler, together with Roshi Naidoo, gave a talk this week to the Centre for Memory, History and Narratives at Brighton University. Entitled ‘All that Jazz: heritage and diversity in the Downton years’, the paper considered the relationship between heritage and discourses of ‘diversity’ circulating in contemporary British culture. Beginning by noting the populist revival…

CCI new staff member Dr Diana Yeh

CCI is very happy to welcome a new colleague Dr Diana Yeh. She joined us on Nov 1st. Diana Yeh is a sociologist with research interests in race and racisms, migration, diaspora, youth and cultural politics. Prior to joining City, she taught at the University of Winchester, Birkbeck College and the University of East London. She…

George Morgan – academic visitor

George Morgan is visiting CCI at present; he gave a seminar in our Brown Bag Lunch series on precarious work and careers in the cultural industries. Here is some background. I’m on my second year of a three year Visiting Fellowship at CCCI and gave a seminar entitled ‘Subculture and New Capitalism’ on October 28th….

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: CREATIVE HUBS IN QUESTION

Dr Tarek Virani and Prof Ros Gill are putting together a book proposal for an edited volume about ‘creative hubs’, developing out of our research as part of AHRC’s Creativeworks London http://www.creativeworkslondon.org.uk/research/place-work-knowledge/ The term ‘hub’ seems to be everywhere. Starting in and around 2003, the growth and proliferation of these types of largely urban industrial agglomeration…

Strangers In A Strange Land

We will welcome our new colleague Dr Diana Yeh next week, but advance news of an event that she is organising in support of the development of an original stage play about the World War One Chinese labourers: Strangers In A Strange Land: The Art and Performance of the World War One Chinese Labour Corps The long…