Milena Dragićević Šešić

Imagining post-capitalist cultural policy futures

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ID12236016
AuthorsVišnja Kisić (0000-0002-8837-7229, Educons University, corresponding author), Goran Tomka (0000-0001-7646-7473, Educons University)
Year2021
Volume31
Issue3
Pages273-286
Publication date2021-12-23
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Trends (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-8963 • E-ISSN: 1469-3690
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09548963.2021.2017233
OpenAlexW4200014430
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

In today’s integrated global capitalism and its neoliberal cosmovision, contemporary cultural policies have increasingly been mirroring this dominant way of global governing. Discourses and practices of economic impact measurements, precarity and austerity measures in the cultural sector, the push for profit-friendly creative industries, privatisation of public resources and increased commodification of cultural experiences have all normalised capitalist logic within dominant cultural policies. Despite increasing literature on post-capitalism and a sense that capitalism is experiencing a new wave of limitations and frontiers, cultural policy hasn’t been actively dealing with post-capitalist imaginings. In this conversation with Milena Dragićević Šešić, we discuss the tenets of capitalist cultural policies today and wonder about alternatives to them – about possibilities for different, post-capitalist futures for cultural policies and ideas that are maybe on the margins today

Austerity · Capitalism · Commodification · Cultural policy · Economics · Economy · Futures contract · Late capitalism · Political economy · Political science · Precarity · Sociology · Artistic and Creative Research · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies

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