The Cultural Economy of a Border Renaissance: Politics and Practices in the City

Walker, Margath A.

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“…One argument for the significant renewal and revival of borders in globalization is their redefinition and adaptation to dealing with the burgeoning global cultural economy (Walker 2007). The cultural economy-people, enterprises, and communities that transform cultural skills, knowledge, and ideas into economically productive goods, services, and places-which consists of components such as cinema, television, fashion, music, publishing, videogames, architecture, and advertisement, crosses boundaries yet may also be bordered.…”

Section: Borders In Globalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Renaissance in a Time of Border Perplexity? The Question of Renaissance/Renascence in a Post-Globalization World

Konrad

2024

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This essay explores questions of why and how there can be a border renaissance in a time of border profusion and confusion. Are we simply witnessing border renascence, a revival of the statist boundary, despite globalization? Or is the renaissance of the border new growth arising from incomprehension of the border in the 21st century? With reference to research in North America, Southeast Asia, and Europe, this article examines the entangled state of the border to discern what is unaccountable from what is complicated and to differentiate rebirth and revival of classical border thinking from that which addresses the perplexity of borders. In my view, a renaissance in border studies flirts with a return to the archaic through definition and explication of borders everywhere. A true renaissance in border studies must confront the entangled state as process, spirit, style, form, and other influences at once rooted in the classical and portrayed and performed in a post-globalization era of border rediscovery. The goal of this essay is to confront the notion of border renaissance, not to diminish the concept, but to reveal the fuller meaning and impact of border rebirth and revival.

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Section: Borders In Globalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Renaissance in a Time of Border Perplexity? The Question of Renaissance/Renascence in a Post-Globalization World

Konrad

2024

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“…Urban planners also contribute to place promotion with development projects like riverwalks, sports stadiums, or iconic monumental architecture (e.g., Sydney Opera House) that help establish a niche in a regional economy or raise the city’s stature (Pagano and Bowman 1995). Such projects—as well as the promotion of cultural economy (Walker 2007)—are part of what makes a city symbolically distinctive.…”

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“…Tijuana’s municipal government has had to negotiate these inherited images to construct a place identity attractive to tourists and investors. The 2005-2007 municipal plan tried to incorporate its “fabled lawlessness” into an edgy image of a Bohemian, vital space for art and experimentation; at the same time, the city represented itself to international capital as a “safe urban space with advanced infrastructure” (Walker 2007, p. 195). Partly to attract a more diverse mix of visitors, the central business district ( Zona Río , or River District) was redeveloped in the 1980s with broad tree-lined avenues, shopping malls, hotels, and office towers.…”

Section: Context: Image Crisis In the “City Of Vice”mentioning

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Urban Image Work

Maher

Carruthers

2013

Urban Affairs Review

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The images people hold about any city affect its ability to attract tourists, shoppers, and investment. This study of urban image in Tijuana examines institutional place promotion efforts in two vital sectors: industry and tourism. It also explores a diverse set of efforts to shape city image from the bottom-up, through blogs, grassroots organizations, and entrepreneurialism. This analysis of differently positioned actors working to shape perceptions in a time of crisis illustrates how “urban image work” comprises a broader phenomenon than urban branding or place promotion, and one that better captures political contestation over rival city images.

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“…(2006) trace how ‘the creative economy’ comes into being as a site of knowledge and policymaking as powerful ideas of the contribution of creativity to the economy circulated throughout Asia. Maggie Walker's (2007) work in Tijuana on the Mexican/American border likewise documents through ‘grounded’ excavation the structures and discourses that embed ‘culture’ in the urban economy via governmental practices. In her case, it was the very idea of the ‘border renaissance’ that came into being through image‐making and through the actions of civic leaders and authorities.…”

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Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects

Gibson

2011

Geographical Research

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This paper reflects on two decades' scholarship in geography on cultural economy, assessing strides made against some of the expectations of early proponents. Cultural economy continues to be a polysemic term. In some quarters, it refers to a type of economic geography into which matters of 'culture' are absorbed. This work frequently focuses on the empirics of the so-called 'cultural and creative industries'. Others see cultural economic research as an opportunity to move beyond the epistemological constraints of 'culture' and 'economy', questioning their status as foundational categories. This latter approach has been used in a broader set of empirical projects encompassing technology, knowledge, and society. Contrasting threads of cultural economic research have helpfully moved geographical scholarship beyond paradigmatic limitations, but jostle somewhat uncomfortably within existing (and increasingly specialised) disciplinary and subdisciplinary fields. The risk is that by questioning the categorical underpinnings of much specialised research, cultural economy struggles to 'belong' in the increasingly coded and compartmentalised university setting. I conclude with a discussion of future prospects. Some measure of vitality could be achieved through incorporation of a cultural economy perspective into the pressing issues of climate change, human sustenance, and urban infrastructure planning. These are issues for which the polysemy of cultural economy could prove constructive, transcending technocentric market 'fixes' and bland assumptions about how best to 'green' our cities -promoting instead ethnographic interrogations of how humans access, use, exchange, and value financial and material resources as moral and social beings.

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The Cultural Economy of a Border Renaissance: Politics and Practices in the City

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Border Renaissance in a Time of Border Perplexity? The Question of Renaissance/Renascence in a Post-Globalization World

Border Renaissance in a Time of Border Perplexity? The Question of Renaissance/Renascence in a Post-Globalization World

Urban Image Work

Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects

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