Culture works
Subtitle: space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas
By: Arlene Davila
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780814744291; 9780814744307; 9780814744314; 9780814744321
Subjects: Arts; Cultural industries; Civilization; Latin Americans; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Cultural policy; Neoliberalism
Description: Based on research in Puerto Rico, New York, and Buenos Aires.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls; title: Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy; title: The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world; title: The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino; title: Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's nuyorican interventions; title: Tango tourism and the political economy of space; title: Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires; title: Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism.