Special Issue Introduction: Cultural Economies and Cultural Activism
Jonathan Vickery, editor.

Part 1: Special guests

Think Piece:
“Seismographs”, “Watch Dogs” or “Change Agents”? Artistic Interventions and Cultural Policy in Processes of Social Transformation
Wolfgang Schneider

Keynote:
After the Creative Industries: Cultural Policy in Crisis
Justin O’Connor

Interview:
Cultural Policies and Cultural Activism: the South African Experience: An Interview with Mike van Graan
Jonathan Vickery and Yvette Hutchinson

Part 2: Papers

The Arts, Africa and Economic Development: the problem of Intellectual Property Rights
Patrick Kabanda

SLAM: the Music City and Cultural Activism
Shane Homan

China’s Soft Power Policies and Strategies: The Cultural Activist State
Qi Chen

The Invisible City of Alternative Theatre: Tactics, Collective Actions and Micro-Publics in Istanbul’s Cultural Economy
Gökçe Sanul and Bas van Heur

Challenging the Narratives: Higher Education Institutions and agency in the Creative Economy
Lorraine Lim

Digital Media Activism and Nigeria’s Public Sphere
Tomi Oladepo

Resisting Linguistic Imperialism: a Response to the 'Chinese Dream'
Xiaozhou Zhou

Intergenerational transmission of values and cultural sustainability: the cultural activism of local, small town communities in Poland
Marcin Poprawski