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Business Improvement Areas and the Justification of Urban Revitalization: Using the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique to Understand Neoliberal Urban Governance
01 Sep 2019-
About: The article was published on 2019-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received None citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban sociology & Social order.
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TL;DR: A conceptual account of this phenomenon is provided on the basis of an exploration of the character of place-specific forms of culture generation and the agglomerative tendencies of many kinds of cultural products industries.
Abstract: An increasingly important fraction of contemporary economic activity is devoted to the production of cultural outputs, i.e. goods and services with high levels of aesthetic or semiotic content. This kind of economic activity is especially, and increasingly, associated with a number of large cities scattered over the globe. A conceptual account of this phenomenon is provided on the basis of an exploration of the character of place-specific forms of culture generation and the agglomerative tendencies of many kinds of cultural products industries. The empirical cases of Los Angeles and Paris are briefly discussed. The dynamics of production, distribution and location of major cultural products industries are also examined. The paper ends with a brief allusion to the modalities of spatial differentiation of culture in contemporary capitalism and to a prospective cultural politics.
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TL;DR: The terrain of discussion as discussed by the authors is defined as geography, ideology and transgression, and a relational ontology is defined to describe the place, transgression and the practice of resistance.
Abstract: Part 1 The terrain of discussion - definitions, concepts, and arguments: geography, ideology and transgression - a relational ontology. Part 2 Heretical geographies: heretical geography 1 - the crucial "where" of graffiti heretical geography 2 - the sacred and the profane - Stonehenge and the hippy convoy heretical geography 3 - putting women in their place - Greenham Common. Part 3 Conclusions: place and ideological strategies place, transgression and the practice of resistance.
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