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Urban Creative Economies and the Re-Shaping of Race and Class Inequalities
Urban Creative Economies and the Re-Shaping of Race and Class Inequalities
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
This panel aims to explore the possibilities and limits of “creative economies” to mitigate urban inequality and racial segregation in conditions of later capitalism where traditional employment is in decline. In 2002, Richard Florida proposed the rise of the “creative class.” He met with city governments across the United States to promote his ideas on "creative" redevelopment. Yet by 2017, Florida recognized he had been overly optimistic about the potential for creative labor to build an alternate urban environment. Meanwhile, Waquant (2008) has argued that “urban outcasts” have grown increasingly inventive in adapting local geographies to their needs in highly industrialized, but increasingly neoliberal and "post-welfare" societies across the United States and the European Union. This inventiveness includes, for example, using art to promote collective, human expression. This panel seeks multi-sited manifestations of how creative economies engage with the crises occasioned by late capitalism and reshape urban inequality. We ask: how are creative economies shaped and shape urban inequalities, especially along racial lines? We particularly welcome contributions that think comparatively about decolonizing analyses of gentrification and the place of race and recolonization/displacement in urban settings.
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