Creating a Global Cultural City via Public Participation in the Arts: Conversations with Hong Kong’s Leading Arts and Cultural Administrators

Abstract

Along these lines, the volume presents critical voices of the industrialization of creativity in the creative economy. An important theme throughout many chapters is the delicate border between resistance or transformation and cop-option. It is a trap lurking in efforts to resist commercialization being submitted to the commercial practice it seeks to confront in the first place. While the first volume succeeds in showing the variety of value forms in the creative industries, it does not consider this tricky crossing. Though often shadowed, the forces behind co-option are powerful and prevalent in the processes of creative production. This invisibility of power draws an interesting angle with the invisibility of value central to the first book. Together, the works show the variety of approaches to the question of value at the heart of the creative economy. They also present the inherent complexity of value, resulting from its intangible and entangled performance as well as its inextricable link to questions of social inequalities, and exclusion, and politics. The large number of contributions cover rich, new empirical evidence that offers helpful insights for researchers, policy makers, and creative practitioners in the field. It should be noted, however, that in spite of several examples taken from different parts of the world, the volumes both convey a strong European flavor.