Title: Culture works : space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas /
Authors: Dávila, Arlene M., 1965-
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Arts America.; Cultural industries America.; Neoliberalism America.; Latin Americans Economic conditions.; Latin Americans Social conditions.; Neoliberalism Americas.; Cultural industries Americas.; Arts Americas.; Latin America Cultural policy.; Latin America Civilization.
Abstract: Based on research in Puerto Rico, New York, and Buenos Aires.
Contents: Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls -- Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy -- The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world -- The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino -- Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's nuyorican interventions -- Tango tourism and the political economy of space -- Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism.