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.
Creative Industry Parks in China: Adaptive Reuse and the Future of Industrial Heritage
1st Edition
By Geuntae Park
April 21, 2026
This book examines how China transforms industrial heritage sites into creative industry parks through adaptive reuse. Drawing on theoretical frameworks, case studies from Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and expert interviews, it explores the intersection of architecture, heritage, culture, ...
Shaping Creative Justice Ecosystems: Collective Action Case Studies in Arts and Culture
1st Edition
By Andrea Gordillo, Mica Rose, Marian Taylor Brown
March 05, 2026
The book demonstrates how creative justice principles can transform organisational cultures, challenge traditional hierarchies, and foster environments where creativity and justice intersect. What do forests teach us about collective action? How do we decompose toxic systems of dominance and ...
Music Artist Managers: Remuneration and Retention in the Popular Music Business
1st Edition
By Guy Morrow
December 26, 2025
To what extent is it possible to do good work in music artist management? Drawing upon original research, this shortform book explores and evaluates motivation, remuneration and equity stakes within the music industries. The author ponders the apparent managerial exodus from the music industries ...
Cultural and Creative Industries in the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By Violeta Simjanovska
August 20, 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 ...