Value struggles in the creative city: A 'People's Republic of Stokes Croft'?
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Value struggles in the creative city : A 'People's Republic of Stokes Croft'? / Frenzel, Fabian; Beverungen, Armin.
In: Urban Studies, Vol. 52, No. 6, 18.05.2015, p. 1020-1036.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Value struggles in the creative city
T2 - A 'People's Republic of Stokes Croft'?
AU - Frenzel, Fabian
AU - Beverungen, Armin
PY - 2015/5/18
Y1 - 2015/5/18
N2 - In this paper we explore the case of Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK, as a neighbourhood in a city which has appropriated the discourse of the creative industries from the bottom up in order to foster its regeneration against capital’s art of rent. We show how Stokes Croft’s self-branding as a cultural quarter has led to struggles over the creative and cultural commons thus produced, which we conceptualise as value struggles where localised value practices clash with capital’s imposition of value. Our case study including two vignettes points both to the productivity of such value struggles in producing new value practices understood as commoning, as well as the limits of reproducing a common life in the face of existing financial and property regimes. Stokes Croft therefore serves as a case in point of the tragedy of the urban commons and points to potential ways of overcoming it.
AB - In this paper we explore the case of Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK, as a neighbourhood in a city which has appropriated the discourse of the creative industries from the bottom up in order to foster its regeneration against capital’s art of rent. We show how Stokes Croft’s self-branding as a cultural quarter has led to struggles over the creative and cultural commons thus produced, which we conceptualise as value struggles where localised value practices clash with capital’s imposition of value. Our case study including two vignettes points both to the productivity of such value struggles in producing new value practices understood as commoning, as well as the limits of reproducing a common life in the face of existing financial and property regimes. Stokes Croft therefore serves as a case in point of the tragedy of the urban commons and points to potential ways of overcoming it.
KW - Culture and Space
KW - Digital media
KW - Cultural studies
KW - art of rent
KW - commons
KW - creative industries
KW - Stokes Croft
KW - value struggles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84924873340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0042098014536239
DO - 10.1177/0042098014536239
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 52
SP - 1020
EP - 1036
JO - Urban Studies
JF - Urban Studies
SN - 0042-0980
IS - 6
ER -