Political economy of creative industries

Interdisciplinary Elecitve Course

This course aims to examine the creative industries in relation to the prevailing political and economic processes in the society – specifically, the incentives, relationships, and distribution and contestation of power between different agents and stakeholders within the industry. Such an analysis can support more politically feasible and therefore more effective development strategies by setting realistic expectations of what can be achieved, over what timescale, and the risks involved. Students are expected to analyse cultural products and symbolic goods from the environmental, organisational, economic, business model point of view, to invent new business models and analyse cultural products in terms of their productions risk, and to examine cultural policies and creative industries/clusters policies.