Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
About the Book Series
This series brings together book-length original research in cultural and creative industries from a range of perspectives. Charting developments in contemporary cultural and creative industries thinking around the world, the series aims to shape the research agenda to reflect the expanding significance of the creative sector in a globalised world.
Visual Research Methods in Arts Administration: Incorporating Photo Elicitation
1st Edition
By Elise Lael Kieffer
October 14, 2025
This book explores the benefits of incorporating the photo-elicitation method into interviews within arts and cultural administration, leadership, and management research. For the qualitative researcher, photographs open pathways to richer understandings of experiences, thoughts, beliefs, and ...
Craft as a Creative Industry
1st Edition
By Karen Patel
September 29, 2025
Craft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creative industry, illuminating the experiences of those working in and around craft, particularly people from marginalised groups. Shining a light on ...
Responsible Cultural Consumption and Production: Insights From Live Experiences, Film and Fashion
1st Edition
Edited
By Ilaria Pappalepore, Elisa Salvador
September 10, 2025
Exploring the Sustainability Development Goal for Responsible Consumption and Production, this volume provides insights from the performing arts, festivals and events, film industry, and fashion sectors. With a variety of examples and case studies, contributors illuminate the political and social ...
Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries: Actions, Policies, and Strategies for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisa Salvador, Ilaria Pappalepore
June 20, 2025
No sector can escape the challenge of the climate crisis. This book brings together a team of academic experts to urgently examine the intersection of sustainability and the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), particularly within the framework of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12): ...
Creative Work: Conditions, Contexts and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Andersson Cederholm, Katja Lindqvist, Ida de Wit Sandström, Philip Warkander
May 27, 2025
How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their ...
Digital Transformation in The Recording Industry: Evolution of Power: From The Turntable To Blockchain
1st Edition
By Anna Anetta Janowska
May 06, 2025
The recording industry has famously been transformed by technology throughout its entire history. The book presents an analysis of these changes using Porter's five forces model. The author highlights the evolution of buyers' and suppliers' power, the emergence of new competitors, product ...
Publishing as a Creative Industry
1st Edition
By Stevie Marsden
April 21, 2025
Book publishing is big business, contributing significant employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the global economy. Despite this, the sector is often overlooked in the creative industries' research tide. This book remedies this gap in knowledge, providing an examination of ...
Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe
1st Edition
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By Ole Marius Hylland, Jaka Primorac
April 14, 2025
What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe. Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the...
The Political Economy of the Creative and Cultural Industries: Stitching Perspectives for Research, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Leandro Valiati
February 12, 2025
The creative and cultural industries (CCIs) are often seen by markets as critical drivers of economic growth and by governments as feasible ways to foster development. The link between these two perspectives lies in the CCIs’ capacity to generate both economic value and social innovation ...
Advertising as a Creative Industry: Regime of Paradoxes
1st Edition
By Izabela Derda
January 30, 2025
At the crossroads of culture and commerce, the advertising industry is a regime of paradoxes. This book examines the place of advertising in today’s creative industries, exploring the major challenges advertisers confront as they engage with other creative sectors. Izabela Derda, author, media ...
Professionalization in the Creative Sector: Policy, Collective Action, and Institutionalization
1st Edition
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By Margaret J. Wyszomirski, WoongJo Chang
January 30, 2025
This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts. It develops an analytical framework that examines how processes of professionalization that typically influence and shape work conditions and occupational status are, in the creative ...
Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries
1st Edition
By Xin Gu
December 18, 2024
This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse – from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of ‘labour time’ to ‘...