Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams and the banal imagination

Mark Banks

Chapter 13 in A Modern Guide to Creative Economies, 2022, pp 216-227 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter adressses the problem of creative economy futures. It considers the limitations of a dominant policy, industry (and academic) paradigm wherein the future is utopianized and delimited by banal imaginaries that appear benign and inclusive, but are intrinsically hostile to contradiction and challenge. The problem of climate emergency and some already apparent and unfolding ecological disasters linked to creative economy activity is shown to be fatally absent from prevailing discourse; a call for a more radical and progressive 're-futuring' is therefore advanced.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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