[ecrea] Cultural Economy After Neo-Liberalism - conference

      Reminder - registration is open for the Cultural Economy After
      Neo-Liberalismconference held by
      the Culture Media Economy research hub at Monash University.

      Register for free here: http://bit.ly/2FN6Y8E


CONFERENCE: Cultural Economy After Neo-Liberalism

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DAY 1: June 25, 9am—5pm

DAY 2: June 26, 9:30am—5pm

LOCATION: Monash College. Level 7, 271 Collins St Melbourne.

The last forty years of cultural policy have been dominated by economic 
value, as the arbiter and final legitimation for cultural policy 
decision making. Even when other public values or goals are admitted, 
these are held to be best achieved through the allocative efficiencies 
of ‘the market’, and by inculcating ‘market rational’ behaviour.

In parallel we have seen a rapid decline in public funding for culture; 
the disruption of public media and information; the fragmentation of 
audiences into market niches and data sources; the erosion of wages and 
working conditions for cultural workers; a deepening lack of diversity 
within the sector, and the on-going exclusion of small scale cultural 
activities from inner cities.

There is crisis of the cultural sector - the ecosystem in which it 
operates and the values that sustain it as a public good. This is part 
of a wider crisis of our collective culture. This conference hopes to 
outline new approaches for the future as a matter of urgency. Rather 
than the stale ideas of creative industries and creative cities, we seek 
to engage with post-growth and sustainable economics; Indigenous and 
cultural rights; new approaches to ‘good living’ in the face of human 
and ecological distress; revisit making and manufacture in cities, as a 
question of sustainability and equity; and new forms of global cultural 
connectivity outside the imaginary of a mobile creative class.

The conference is in three parts over two days: Cultural Economy 
Futures; Shaping the City for Cultural Production; from Fringe to Famous.

*Invited speakers include:*

Arjo Klamer, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Seb Olma, Avans University of Applied Sciences The Netherlands

Mark Banks, University of Leicester

Kate Oakley, University of Leeds

George Morgan, Western Sydney University

Jen Smith McGuire, University of Leicester

Caroline Wilson-Barnao, University of Queensland

Julian Meyrick and Tully Barnett, Flinders University

Marcus Westbury, Contemporary Arts Precinct

Helene George, Creative Economy

*Monash University speakers:*

Justin O’Connor

Carl Grodach

Mark Andrejevic

Brett Hutchins

Xin Gu

Mark Gibson

Tony Moore

Pip Shea

Markus Jung



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