Value Construction in the Creative Economy: Negotiating Innovation and Transformation

The book provides a critical and integrative analysis of value as it pertains to different aspects of creative and cultural industries. The notion of ’value’ - a frequently used but rarely considered term - is deconstructed and considered as a spatial and structural impact, an active resource and process, and as soft institutions and embodied forms which collectively create a space through which value is constructed and negotiated. This book consists of three main sections: normative valuation, value and transformation from interactions and process, and embodied value. Together the contributions assess what value means in the creative and cultural industries, how it is constructed and added through process, and the way in which it is embodied in people and shaped through and by social space. Especially relevant for postgraduate study and research in the creative and cultural industries where critical studies are key, this book is also relevant for multiple disciplines which occupy the creative and cultural fields.

Rachel Granger is Reader in Creative Industries Management at De Montfort University, UK. She specialises in the economic geography of creative industries, the performance of creative cities and on emerging technologies that facilitate and capture the value of the nuanced ecologies of creative work. Her current work focuses on creating value through creative spaces, including work on smart cities, third spaces and new models of creative regeneration.