Routledge Focus on the Global Creative Economy
About the Book Series
This innovative shortform book series aims to provoke and inspire new ways of thinking, new interpretations, emerging research, and insights from different fields. In rethinking the relationship of creative economies and societies beyond the traditional frameworks, the series is intentionally inclusive. Featuring diverse voices from around the world, books in the series bridge scholarship and practice across arts and cultural management, the creative industries and the global creative economy.
Cultural and Creative Industries in the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By Violeta Simjanovska
August 14, 2025
Cultural and Creative Industries in the Western Balkans is a book that explores the dynamic and evolving landscape of the cultural policy, cultural and creative industries (CCI) across the region. This book examines the unique positioning of CCIs, their role in preserving cultural expression and ...
Creative Economy and Sustainable Development: The Context of Indian Handicrafts
1st Edition
By Madhura Dutta
May 06, 2025
The creative economy is one of the world’s most dynamic sectors. Drawing upon the author’s work on empowerment and sustainability, this book focuses on India's indigenous, rural, traditional handicraft-based creative and cultural industries (CCIs) and the role they can play in the country’s ...
Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector
1st Edition
By Antonio C. Cuyler
May 02, 2025
Caste and the discrimination, exclusion, marginalization, othering, oppression, subalterning, and subjugation that it produces continue to challenge creative industries compromising culture’s verisimilitude as a public good. Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector explores the ...
Global Crisis and the Creative Industries: Analysing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By Ryan Daniel
April 14, 2025
Workers in the creative industries are highly motivated, resilient, and innovative and these characteristics have come to the fore during the global health and resultant economic crises enveloping the world. This shortform book analyses transformation in the arts as a result of this era of ...
Caribbean Industries in Culture: Developing Sustainable Actions for the Creative Ecology
1st Edition
By Suzanne Burke
April 01, 2025
Analysing the factors affecting the sustainable development of the Caribbean cultural industry, this concise volume explores how creatives operate within the cultural ecology of the region and the diverse range of tactics they use to mediate state and global policies to define cultural production ...
Climate Change and the Creative Economy in India: Disadvantaged, Disturbed and Dislocated Indian Weavers
1st Edition
By Pragya Sharma
March 23, 2025
Weaving has been a significant aspect of India’s cultural and economic history. Climate change is increasingly affecting crucial relationships within the weaver communities. This book explores the dialectical relationship between the craft of weaving and the changing climate. Exploring questions of...
Research, Development and Innovation in the Creative Industries: Reframing Our Understanding of the Creative Economy
1st Edition
By Ruxandra Lupu, Marlen Komorowski, Justin Lewis, Máté Miklos Fodor
February 20, 2025
What does effective research and development look like in the creative industries and how might it lead to successful innovation? This book is an answer to that question. Building upon place-based creative industry research, the book focuses on evidence from the media sector, while encompassing a ...
Curating, Interpretation and Museums: When Attitude Becomes Form
1st Edition
By Sylvia Lahav
January 30, 2025
Following a period of strategic and ideological change in museums, this book outlines new attitudes in curating and display, education and learning, text and interpretation, access, inclusion, participation, space, and the issues around the sustainability of the encyclopaedic collection. Focused ...
Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together
1st Edition
By Tim Butcher
November 29, 2024
This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy. Developing from the author’s theoretical and empirical research at the nexus of precarious work and entrepreneurial learning, it ...
Youth Culture and the Music Industry in Contemporary Cambodia: Questioning Tradition
1st Edition
By Darathtey Din
November 29, 2024
This book explores young Cambodians’ perceptions of their place in today’s society and how they interact with the country’s arts and culture scene. The popularity of Cambodian hip-hop among youth presents an opportunity for research to dive deeper into the roles of popular music in society and how ...
Digitization and Culture in Vietnam
1st Edition
By Emma Duester
October 09, 2024
The accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences. This shortform book investigates the significance of digitization in Vietnamese culture, illuminating how cultural ...
Rethinking Cultural Centers: A Nordic Perspective on Multipurpose Cultural Organizations
1st Edition
By Tomas Järvinen
October 09, 2024
What are cultural centers for? This book offers a unique and dynamic guide to managing these organizations, and the challenge of reconciling cultural aims with business success. Drawing on research and practice, it provides case-based insights into common managerial problems and their solutions. ...