Cultural Production Research Articles

Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking

ABSTRACT This paper examines the on-the-ground process of creative city making in the Global South. It highlights the role of the state in the development of creative cities in the Chinese context, with a specific focus on how the state has instrumentalized arts and culture in remaking old villages into creative space. Through a case study of a state-led development project of an artist village in Shenzhen, it is revealed that the local government has devised a myriad of localized practices and strategies to realize the project of creating a print art cluster in a rambling peri-urban environment. State-led rural gentrification is co-opted to generate an idyllic rural landscape replete with heritage houses to attract artists to settle, while cultural governance is implemented to redefine rural aesthetics and discipline creative production and artist practices in the village. Our study unravels that cultural production and placemaking are significantly shaped by a dominant state in highly contingent ways and may lead to contingent outcomes. While state-led culture-oriented gentrification is often deployed to attract investment and develop real estate, it also functions as a creative placemaking strategy to develop public cultural projects, civilize the public, and rebrand the city as a global creative hub.

1980 SONRASI ÇAĞDAŞ TÜRK SANATINDA DİSİPLİNLERARASILIK VE DİSİPLİNLERAŞIRILIK

The coup of 1980 in Turkey was considered a negative impact of effective and long-term changes. Everything, including the historical process, political, economic, social and cultural phenomena, as well as street and art concepts, has been shaped before and after the 80s. The first half of the 80s became a period for Turkish art when works were published and bought and sold as commodities. After 1980, there was a major break in the field of visual arts, both in reviewing the subjects discussed and in the forms of creation. Artists who worked on the distribution of arbitrary border lines between political, economic, social or cultural products until the 80s gained a freer understanding of art in the 80s. With these understandings, after the 1990s, Turkish artists have signed practices that are open to diversity in art and are increasingly appreciated as interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. This diversity has been provided with opportunities in the interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary period in which the art environment has been cultivated along social and cultural mobility such as global production, freedom, technological developments and international markets. Expanding the interdisciplinary and extreme expressions of disciplines within the scope of the research and examining the selected examples in a more comprehensive manner, revealing the results that Bitcoin has created in the last period and afterwards. Keywords: Turkish Art, Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary

A Call for Integration: Innovative Application of Traditional Styles in the Design of Contemporary Cultural and Creative Products

A Call for Integration: Innovative Application of Traditional Styles in the Design of Contemporary Cultural and Creative Products

The Influence of AR on Purchase Intentions of Cultural Heritage Products: The TAM and Flow-Based Study

The Influence of AR on Purchase Intentions of Cultural Heritage Products: The TAM and Flow-Based Study

Using Of Artificial Intelligence In The Cultural And Creative Industries: A Public Administration Perspective

The purpose of this article is to explore the specific aspects of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in the cultural and creative industries from a public administration perspective. The article analyses the main opportunities and directions for incorporating AI into public management for the development of these sectors in Ukraine. It highlights that digital transformation, facilitated by AI technologies, requires adherence to structural-functional, informational-communicative, and organizational-technological approaches. These approaches ensure decentralization, modernization of information infrastructure, and optimization of management processes. The article outlines the prospects and directions for AI integration into public administration in the cultural and creative sectors in Ukraine. It identifies the main benefits of AI, such as the ability to analyse large volumes of data, predict trends, automate routine processes, and support informed decision-making. These benefits can enhance the quality and accessibility of cultural products and create new channels and consumption models. This includes applications like the digitization of cultural heritage, management of cultural institutions, and the creation of personalized experiences for visitors. The article also identifies potential risks associated with implementing AI in public administration for the cultural and creative industries in Ukraine. These risks include issues related to copyright protection, ethics, and transparency in decision-making. Despite the significant potential, the integration of AI in public administration is still in its early stages. It faces numerous challenges, such as a lack of clear methodological approaches and practical tools, as well as risks related to privacy, algorithm transparency, and employment impacts. The article emphasizes that using AI in creating creative products raises important considerations regarding the value-based foundations of the cultural and creative sectors. It transforms creativity from an individual to a collective endeavor, where the role of machine systems becomes comparable to that of humans. Additionally, the article proposes a refined definition of «creative industries» in Ukrainian legislation, considering the specificities of creating creative products with AI.

Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption

This review examines cultural production and consumption through the lens of race and ethnicity. Although the sociological study of race, ethnicity, and cultural production and consumption (RECPC) is growing, it is scattered across various subfields. This review aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how race and ethnicity intersect with cultural production and consumption by bringing this scholarship together. I discuss five dominant themes in the scholarship: classification, valuation and evaluation, representations, market outcomes, and cultural capital. The article concludes with implications for future sociological research on RECPC.

The Impact of Cultural and Creative Products Arising from Intangible Cultural Heritage on Economic Development: A Case Study of Ebian County, China

The Impact of Cultural and Creative Products Arising from Intangible Cultural Heritage on Economic Development: A Case Study of Ebian County, China

Strategies for the Development of Museum Creative and Cultural Industries through Industry-Education Integration

With the deepening of digital transformation and the upgrading of cultural consumption, the museum creative and cultural industry, as an important carrier for disseminating culture, is facing new opportunities and challenges. Today's public demand for cultural products is more diversified. To promote the sustainable development of the creative and cultural industry, museums and educational institutions should strengthen cooperation, making industry-education integration an inevitable trend for future development. In the specific development process, by meeting actual needs, cultivating professional talents, innovating products, and promoting the integration of industry, academia, research, and application, we can enhance cultural inheritance and innovation. The implementation of this strategy can effectively improve the core competitiveness of creative and cultural products, inherit and promote China's excellent traditional culture, and inject new vitality into the prosperity and development of the cultural industry. This paper first analyzes the role of industry-education integration in promoting the development of the museum creative and cultural industry, discusses the types of museum creative and cultural products, and then proposes feasible measures to achieve deep integration between the two, opening a new chapter of cultural innovation and inheritance.

The Historicization and Theorization of Spatial Ruin in Wounded Baghdad

Be it a consideration of the ruptured spatialities and urban forms of Baghdad in the present or reaching back into a volatile past, the city lives out arresting contradictions that beckon a different kind of understanding. Spatial woundedness carries within it many implications for how that pain is rendered. This is most visible in forms of cultural production that have settled the hurt exacted into a place of innovation. It is a full mutuality between architecture and the destruction that has violently defaced it so much so that a new image of urbanity begins to emerge. Beyond the agony felt by the capital, intellectualizing the spatial wound that has manifested and been given life as it were suggests a pressing need to comprehend this phenomenology. Historicizing and then theorizing what is a poetics of destruction assists in coming to comprehend not simply the features of an urban character necessarily born out of ruin but doing so against an orientalist narrative that seeks to entrench the Baghdadi space in perpetual liminality. The city fights back so that it may have a chance to survive but also creates lasting meaning between the real and unreal.

Three decades on the Chinese internet: Attention, authority, and cultural production

Three decades on the Chinese internet: Attention, authority, and cultural production

Research on the Application of Qufu Cultural and Creative Products Under Design Psychology

Research on the Application of Qufu Cultural and Creative Products Under Design Psychology

Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil

Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil

Methyl Jasmonate Elicitation Enhanced Biomass, Phenolic, and Flavonoid Production of Adventitious Root Culture of Gynura procumbens in Balloon Type Bubble Bioreactor

Methyl Jasmonate Elicitation Enhanced Biomass, Phenolic, and Flavonoid Production of Adventitious Root Culture of Gynura procumbens in Balloon Type Bubble Bioreactor

Between Understanding and Control: Science as a Cultural Product

AbstractSince the early days of humankind, people have been asking questions about Nature of two kinds: why did that happen? And how can that be used? In a broad sense, science was born that day. We show indeed that science has two complementary and interdependent souls that aim, respectively, to how to understand and how to control Nature. Through a broad historical analysis, this essay aims to (1) give an account of the development of science as an oscillation and an interplay between its two intrinsic natures, (2) demonstrate that this happened already in ancient times starting from the 6th century BC, and (3) the fact that in different periods one of the two natures was largely favored over the other is a consequence of science being a cultural product of the different social-historical contexts.

NEW CINEPHILIA TASTE: A STUDY ON ACADEMICS’ TASTE IN THE CASE OF NETFLIX TÜRKİYE AND MUBI TÜRKİYE

This study examines the views of cinema academics, which can be called ‘new cinephiles’ and ‘masters of symbolic taste,’ on MUBI and Netflix streaming platforms. In the theoretical part of the study, the boundaries of taste are first emphasized in cultural consumption. Then, the views on the formation of boundaries formed by the consumption of cultural products were emphasized. Categorical boundaries play an important role in cultural consumption, dividing art as popular or elite and individuals as high or low culture. Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory emphasizes how individuals with high cultural capital create class distinctions. Previous studies have shown that upper-middle-class individuals or ‘cultural omnivores’ tend to appreciate high and popular culture. With the emergence of digital platforms, these boundaries are being reconsidered. Research suggests that algorithmic recommendation systems on these platforms shape users’ tastes and potentially reinforce existing social and cultural divisions. This study used qualitative research methods and a phenomenological design to investigate the impact of viewing preferences and digital platforms on class divisions. The findings reveal that while these platforms increase access to a wide range of content, they reinforce class-based viewing practices. Characteristics of new cinephiles: Participants show a deep attachment to films and use various digital devices to watch them, suggesting a nuanced interplay between technology, cultural consumption, and social stratification.

Retraction: Spatio-Temporal analysis of exports of cultural products and their affecting factors for spatial distribution.

Retraction: Spatio-Temporal analysis of exports of cultural products and their affecting factors for spatial distribution.

Monument o monstre. La memorialització de Rodoreda com a cos absent/present

This article draws on Jacques Derrida’s notion of the spectre from Specters of Marx (1993) to examine the process of patrimonialization and simultaneous invisibiliza­tion of certain aspects of Mercè Rodoreda’s work and personal life, focusing on a selec­tion of the commemorative acts organized for the centenary of her birth in 2008. It sit­uates the spectre in relation to Memory and Feminist Studies, paying particular atten­tion to Jo Labanyi’s (2000; 2002) recasting of this concept for the analysis of Spanish cultural production and Angela McRobbie’s (2011) critique to postfeminism’s ghosting of the feminist agenda at the turn of the 21st century. My analysis explores the socio­political and cultural dimension of domestic, natural and visual environments. Firstly, it looks at the ways in which the history of the Senyal Vell, the first house in Romanyà de la Selva where the author lived on her return from exile, has been narrated, arguing that they exemplify the dynamics of selection and appropriation in processes of cultural transmission and commemoration. Secondly, my analysis follows the literary routes drawn around the village and the choice of texts related to the suggested locations, not­ing the repeated omission of her unfinished novel La mort i la primavera. Finally, I draw the study to a conclusion through discussion of the portrayal of Rodoreda in the poster for the play Un dia. Mirall trencat, adapted and directed by Ricard Salvat in 2008, where the author is represented as a witch-like master puppeteer.

Shifting evaluations: The impact of status increase on quality evaluations in the movie industry

Contrary to the belief that higher status automatically improves quality evaluations, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of status on perceived quality in the movie industry. The research hypothesizes that Academy Award-winning films receive less favorable evaluations post-award and that increased popularity post-award exacerbates this effect compared to their nominated-only counterparts. By analyzing over 47,000 reviews from IMDB, covering both winning and nominated-only movies from 2008 to 2019, the study finds that ratings of award-winning movies significantly decline post-award, while those of nominated-only movies do not experience a similar decline. Despite the decline in ratings, sentiment scores in reviews for award-winning movies do not show a significant drop post-award. Additionally, the study observes that the increase in review volume post-award correlates with lower ratings for winning movies, underscoring the impact of varied audience tastes on evaluations. This phenomenon highlights the divergence in evaluation criteria between experts and the general public. The findings emphasize the complexity of status dynamics and suggest that higher status, as conferred by awards, does not necessarily translate to sustained positive evaluations. This research underscores the need for further exploration into the dynamics of status, popularity, and evaluation, particularly in fields where public perception plays a crucial role. Such insights are valuable for understanding how public recognition and increased visibility can influence the longevity of perceived quality in cultural products.

THE COMPLEX OF FINDS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS IN TYRAS IN 1978. CHERNYAKHIV PERIOD OF THE ANCIENT CITY

Studies of ancient Tyras (North-Western Pontic region) have shown that the late Roman period of the city was associated with the population of the Chernyakhiv culture, a significant part of which were Germanic Goths. But the importance of this population in the city’s history has not been studied sufficiently, so new publications of finds should be of great interest. During the excavation in 1978 three vessels were discovered which were located probably in a small light building. These are a gray-clay wheel-made mug and also a handmade jug and bowl. The mug is a typical product of Chernyakhiv culture, and the jug is a primitive imitation of Roman forms. As for the bowl, it is difficult to find analogies for it. This assemblage belongs to the latest layer of ancient Tyras which can be framed by the second half of the 3rd — early 5th century AD. Several other objects belong to the same period, as well as some Chernyakhiv finds from the cultural layer. These are fibulae (early items of them are dated to the middle — late 3rd century), axe-shaped pendants, combs made of deer horn. The types of amphorae of the late Roman period, known in Tyras, are also common on the Chernyakhiv settlements. Table and kitchen gray vessels clearly represent the types of dishes common throughout the territory of the Chernyakhiv culture. Occasionally there are fragments of vessels typical for the Wielbark (Gothic) culture. In the cultural layers of the Roman Tyras also the earlier group of gray-clay tableware presents, which is typologically different from the Chernyakhiv ware. Local workshops produced it (as well as red-clay products) until the mid-3rd century AD, when the activity of Greco-Roman craftsmen ceased. Later the new inhabitants of Tyras brought their own pottery. An important difference between the production technology of Greco-Roman and Chernyakhiv potters was the use of a fast potter’s wheel in the first case, and a slow wheel in the second one. The barbaric slow wheel has not been compared favorably with a fast one but the Chernihiv’s people have not the fast wheel. We propose an approximate reconstruction of the history of Tyras in the late Roman period. The military victories of the barbarians (the Gothic Wars of 238—270) caused the evacuation (between 248 and 253) of the Roman garrison and, probably, the inhabitants of the city. The period of the history of Tyras as an ancient city was over, however the merchant ships came to its port even during wars. To continue mutually beneficial trade (from the mid-3rd century and especially in the second half of the 4th century, when the peak of imports is observed) there was a fairly small number of «Chernyakhiv residents» in the destroyed city. Their activity might have been seasonal and limited to a few months of navigation per year. They handled the ships and transferred the goods to «their» merchants for resale in the depths of Chernyakhiv territory. These people built new houses among the ruins but their standard of living did not reach the level of Chernyakhiv rural settlements. Judging by the finds, they had a small number of wheel-made ceramics and replaced the shortage of ware by primitive handmade products. Summarizing the available materials, we can conclude the following. The last phase of ancient Tyras, known as the «post-Gothic» period, should be more reasonably called the «Chernyakhiv period». In the mid-3rd century Tyras lost the signs of a city, and till the early 5th century became a Chernyakhiv trade settlement.

‘Natural’ disasters, ignorance, and the mirage of Italian settler colonialism in late nineteenth-century Africa

ABSTRACT This article places the origins of Italian settler colonialism and its defeat in the battle of Adwa (1896) in the global perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism. It argues that the Italian project to turn the highlands of the Horn of Africa into a settler colony was an “imperial mirage”: the perception that the momentarily depopulated landscape of Ethiopia, produced by “natural” disasters that were in fact the social products of colonial warfare, would be available to Italian settlers in the future. This mirage was based on a domino effect of environmental catastrophes connecting climate history, animal disease, and the politics of European imperialism. Italians’ introduction of rinderpest in Eritrea in the wake of an El Niño-related drought triggered “the Great African Rinderpest Panzootic” and the “Great Ethiopian Famine”. The mixture of willful ignorance and wishful self-deception that fueled Italian projects explains Italy’s defeat in the battle of Adwa. Building on the methodology of environmental historians and scholars in Science and Technology Studies, this article shifts focus from the power of the state to the techno-politics of colonialism in its impact on natural environments and African communities through the lens of the cultural production of ignorance.