Thinking creative clusters beyond the city: People, places and networks

Harvey, David; Hawkins, Harriet; Thomas, Nicola

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.11.010

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“…Discourse analysis of interviews, field notes and policy documents highlighted the importance of these specific personnel, their relationships within organisations and wider networks, and the cut and thrust of organisational politics as they advocated for their sector. The findings resonated with Jones (2007) argument for an analysis of the 'peopled state' in which the role of individuals, their disposition and social relations with others are taken seriously (see also Harvey et al 2012). The mixed methodology of observation, interviews and policy analysis on which this paper is based has revealed the contested development of craft policy from 2010 to 2014.…”

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Firing up craft capital: the renaissance of craft and craft policy in the United Kingdom

Jakob

Thomas

2015

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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Crafts have recently been experiencing a renaissance. This revitalization sees craft increasingly recognised as a growing industrial sector with benefits linked to educational, cultural and economic development policy agendas. This paper engages with policy debates around the place of craft in the United Kingdom from 2010. Drawing on craft sector perspectives and UK government policy initiatives it situates the disciplines and practices of craft within their institutional support networks, organizational contexts and draws attention to the role of individuals in driving agendas. The paper focuses on the national facing crafts development organizations, the UK Crafts Council and the UK Heritage Crafts Association, alongside recent policy discussion emerging from the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Recognizing that the legacies of past practice often inform contemporary agendas, the paper explores how the advocacy of craft in the recent past has shaped the place and positioning of craft in contemporary UK politics.

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Firing up craft capital: the renaissance of craft and craft policy in the United Kingdom

Jakob

Thomas

2015

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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“…The link between sustainable economic development and creative economies is highlighted by some authors who consider this part of regional economy as essential for developing long-term development strategies (Deheinzelin, 2011;Harvey et al, 2012;Méndez et al, 2012;Abankina, 2013;Shuaib et al, 2013) as creative economies, although they do not have a high share in the local economy, generate multiplication effects in other parts of a local economic system (O'Connor, 2000).…”

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Creative economies in Romania – spatial projections and trends

Pintilii

Peptenatu

Ciobotaru

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Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract.Creative economies are at the heart of the knowledge-based economy. The main objectives of the study are to present the spatial design of the regional systems of creativity in Romania and to identify the evolutionary trends, by creating spatial models for key economic indicators, specific to such economic activities. This paper focuses on how creative economies are concentrated in the national network of settlements and how they differentiate in terms of regional profile. Consequently, a yearly nationwide database was created for 2000-2012, which includes four-digit creative economic activities, according to the Classification of National Economy Activities, for each administrative unit in Romania. The analyses, conducted for the same period, show a concentration of creative economies as a national polycentric network which includes the capital city and cities with over 300,000 inhabitants, as well as their structured territorial systems emerging around them, representing the local and regional polycentric networks. The analysis of the economic profiles highlights the growing share of creative economies in the national economy that tends to contribute more and more to the increase of the operational complexity of the local and regional economies.

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“…In this sense, he suggests, 'craft is not a movement or a field, but rather a set of concerns that is implicated across many types of cultural production' (ibid.). Attention has emerged in cultural policy and cultural industries research on both craft-as-commodity and 'craft' as skilled labour (see as examples Banks 2010;Hughes 2011;Harvey, Hawkins and Thomas 2012), an attention that seeks to recover an interest in 'making' and the material, which has been lost in the policy emphasis on the digital and the 'knowledge economy'. Banks (2010: 317) suggests that studying 'the character of workshop models' organised by craft workers has both analytic and democratic potential in revealing diverse forms of labour in the creative industries.…”

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Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

Belfiore¹,

Upchurch²

2013

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Thinking creative clusters beyond the city: People, places and networks

Cited by 86 publications

References 65 publications

Firing up craft capital: the renaissance of craft and craft policy in the United Kingdom

Firing up craft capital: the renaissance of craft and craft policy in the United Kingdom

Creative economies in Romania – spatial projections and trends

Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

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