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Dear All, Please excuse the intrusion into your mail-boxes and any cross-posting. We hope this will be of interest. Yours, Dominic Power Allen Scott Call for papers for the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2002, Los Angeles, March 19-23. Session on: “Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture”. Convenors: Dominic Power and Allen Scott In recent years there has been a growing awareness among social scientists and culture theorists of the significance of the economic and commercial underpinnings of cultural production in contemporary society. The rising power of the media and entertainment industries combined with the trend to ‘aesthesization’ of many different kinds of manufactured products suggests that geographers must systematically engage not only with the question of cultural products as items of consumption, but equally and just as importantly with the conditions of their production. This session aims to gather together researchers on the production of culture and the cultural industries - including but not necessarily restricted to media, fashion, film, new media, art, design, music, and architecture – in order to address the many burning questions that are being raised as this emerging field of enquiry is opened up to further exploration. Papers are sought that explore: * the nature and functioning of the cultural industries * cultural production’s role in regional and urban development * the spatial economy of culture * case studies at a sectoral, urban, regional, or national level * agglomeration/cluster approaches to cultural production * issues of innovation and creativity in the cultural economy * cultural politics as it relates to the commodification of culture * the functioning of labor markets in the culture industries * and so on… You are welcome to contact one of the organizers prior to the submission of an abstract. Please submit an abstract of not more than 250 words by August 1st 2001 to one of the convenors: Dominic Power, Uppsala University, Sweden, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (Tel: +46-70-7310121; Fax: +46-18-4717418) Allen Scott, UCLA, USA, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dr. Dominic Power Kulturgeografiska Institutionen Uppsala Universitet Box 513 S-751 20 Uppsala Sweden Tel: +46 - (0)18 - 471 2538 Fax: +46 - (0)18 - 471 7418 Mob: +46 - (0)70 - 7310121 http://www.kultgeog.uu.se/pp/Dominic.Power/ <http://www.kultgeog.uu.se/>