Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

Chris Bilton and David Wright have both contributed chapters to the recently published Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries. Edited by Kate Oakley (Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds) and Justin O’Connor (Professor of Communications and Cultural Economy at Monash University) the book brings together 43 researchers and thinkers, from a range of countries and disciplinary backgrounds, to review and update current debates within cultural industry scholarship.

Chris’s essay brings insight from his work on the management of creative industries to reflect on, and offer solutions to, the challenges that small creative enterprises face in defending their autonomy from giant digital intermediaries such as Amazon and Google.

David’s chapter considers the ambiguities of ‘the cultural consumer’ as revealed by historical and contemporary scholarship on consumer societies and reflects on the inter-relationships between the buying and selling of cultural goods and abiding questions of class, status and identity.

Details of other contributions to this exciting new resource for students and researchers can be found via the publisher’s web page

The Institute of Advanced Studies is sponsoring a Visiting Fellowship for the Global Research Prtiority in International Development. Organised by Jonathan Vickery, this means a week of 7 events, exploring the GRP-ID Annual theme 'Creative Economies and Cultural Activism'.

Mike van Graan is a playwright, cultural activist, executive director and UNESCO technical advisor. He is a central figure in South Africa’s cultural sector as much as the African continent’s nascent creative economy. As a playwright he is nationally renowned; he set up one of the nation’s most prestigious cultural consultancies; he is the pioneer behind the now world-famous pan-African arts and policy organisation, The Arterial Network (AN), and is now Executive Director of the African Arts Institute (AFAI). Both the organisations are in Cape Town, and both have played a significant role in empowering black cultural agency in the post-Apartheid era. Both organisations are explicit in their commitment to the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, but are also pragmatic in working for economic development.

SEE the week's itinerary: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/internationaldevelopment/

SEE Culture Matters BLOG: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/cp/blog/

CCPS in colloboration with a range of departments (Theatre Studies, Film&TV, Hispanic Studies, WISC, CIM, WBS and the Connecting Cultures GRP) is delighted to be welcoming two visiting scholars from Brazil as part of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Visiting Fellows Scheme. These international visiting fellows will be joining us for a three week visit from the 18th May-8th June 2015. For the first of those weeks we will welcome Dr Carlos Falci (University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte), in the middle week he will be joined by Prof Gilson Schwartz (University of Sao Paulo) and in the final week Prof Schwartz will be with us. For a schedule of activities please click here.