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Enframing creativity: power, geographical knowledges and the media economy
Author(s) -
Christophers Brett
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00251.x
Subject(s) - creativity , power (physics) , discipline , mediation , government (linguistics) , economy , impulse (physics) , sociology , impulse control , economic geography , economic system , political economy , political science , social science , economics , law , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
This paper is concerned with developments in the UK ‘creative industries’ in the late 1990s. It questions the government's preoccupation with measuring these industries, and argues that this quantification impulse – manifested in a high‐profile ‘mapping’ exercise – was tied to the intensification of disciplinary forms of regulatory power. The power to define, control and orient the modern economy can be seen to be exercised through the production and mediation of geographical knowledges.