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This book brings together academics and policy practitioners to provide new insights into the field of cultural governance, exploring its contemporary dynamics, dilemmas and challenges.
This book presents the creative industries as a suite of practices intimately connected to political, economic, and cultural power. Seeking to illuminate the creative industries through critical cultural analysis, the book shows the extent to which creative labour shapes our shared cultural and political realities, good and bad.