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UNESCO creative economy report launch at City University

CCI is very pleased to host the launch of the UNESCO creative economy report. This is the 3rd edition of the report, which has come to play a pivotal role in establishing the role of the creative economy in national economies and developing the debate for policy at international, national and local level. Previous editions…

Creative Industries in The Conversation

Prof Andy Pratt wrote short article for The Conversation on 20 January about recent economic growth in the creative economy, in spite of the recession. The article can be read here.

Casey and the ASA Section on Culture

The latest issue of the official newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Culture, published in December 2013, features coverage by Prof Rodney Benson (New York University) of a preconference on media sociology co-convened by Dr Casey Brienza (City), Dr Andrew Lindner (Concordia College), and Matthias Revers (SUNY, Albany) and held at NYU’s Institute…

Cecilia in Buenos Aires

Between December 2013 and January 2014 Dr Cecilia Dinardi undertook a fieldwork pilot visit to Buenos Aires, where she met with officers from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (tourism and culture departments) as well as cultural practitioners, such as the Club Cultural Matienzo and the Circo Social del Sur. This first visit…

City, Culture and Society: Andy is new editor

Andy has been appointed to the one the three editors of the journal City, Culture and Society. Andy has been involved in the journal since its formation. Initial it was developed from Osaka City University, Japan; and now its is establishing its global character. It focuses on a wide range of issues relating to culture…

Distinguished Ros Gill in Perth

Professsor Rosalind Gill was a ‘Distinguished’ guest of Murdoch University, Western Australia in January 2014. She took up her position as a Distinguished Collaborator, a role that extends for 3 years. During the visit, Rosalind worked with PhD students, gave an invited lecture to academics in Psychology and Media and Communications, and began writing a…

Jo gives a lecture at KCL

In December Jo was an invited speaker in the Culture, Media and Creative Industries department at Kings College London, where she gave a talk on meritocracy and the cultural industries.

Meritocracy or plutocracy: Jo’s new article

Dr Jo Littler’s article ‘Meritocracy as plutocracy: the marketising of ‘equality’ within neoliberalism’ has been published in a special issue of New Formations on Neoliberal Culture (December 2013). Her article is free to download here http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/contents.html . It is currently being translated into Chinese. Meritocracy, in contemporary parlance, refers to the idea that whatever our…

Marisol’s chapter on Working Conditions in the Electronics Industry published

December 2013 a research paper by Marisol Sandoval and Kristina Bjurling on Working Conditions in the Electronics Industry appeared in the book Lessons for Social Change in the Global Economy, edited by Shae Garwood, Sky Croesser and Christalla Yakinthou (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739187753) The chapter is the result of a collaboration between Marisol Sandoval and the Swedish corporate watch organisation Swedwatch (http://www.swedwatch.org/en)….

Comics & Cultural Work: Casey edits a special series for Comics Forum

Throughout December 2013, a special series of posts on ‘Comics & Cultural Work,’ guest edited by Dr Casey Brienza, ran on the Comics Forum blog. Contributors included Dr Benjamin Woo (University of Calgary), Paddy Johnston (Sussex), and Tom Miller (University of Calgary).