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Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity: Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond

Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity: Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Business GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032083530
ISBN13: 9781032083537
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the 'qualities of place'.

This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding 'native' foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley, musicians in 'outback' settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to clusters, cinema and the cultivation of 'authentic' landscapes, and tensions between the 'representational' and 'non-representational' in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a picture of rural and regional places as more than the 'other' of metropolitan creative cities. Place itself is shown to embody affordances, unique institutional structures and the invisible threads that 'hold communities together'.

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