No, it’s not that we feminists have gone crazy repeating words, but rather that the term “tractor” when functioning as an adjective is applied to the ability of some things to attract other things and generate synergy. For example, if an important factory is located in a lost town, roads, plumbers, taxis or shops will certainly spawn in the town to provide services to the workers and arriving goods. Also, cultural manifestations (plays, exhibitions, restoration of paintings, poetry, etc.) lead to: shops, people in restaurants, public or private events – with the resulting trips, hotels, fashions -, printing presses, paper trade, films, which led to… This led to the emergence of recording studios, sound and lighting technicians, makeup artists, hair stylists, fashion influencers…). This means that art and culture not only serve to analyze our time and express our feelings or criticisms, but they also generate works and energize entire fields. Culture is a powerful driving entity in the global economy.
The study of interest in the economic value of cultural and creative activities (CCA) began in the UK, at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and has since been analyzed from multiple perspectives. First, the creation of wealth and employment through its direct productive activity is highlighted. Second, these activities have the potential to have impacts on the economy and society that go beyond the arts production sector itself, either because culture, creativity and design are allied with sectors to which they are not directly related, such as gastronomy or travel, or because they have the potential to foster social innovation and concentrate talent in Highly cross-disciplinary. Cultural content is also a generator of series, films, and platforms such as Netflix, digital media, etc., which in turn generate news and enhance searches on screens, phones or computers. As well as materials for batteries and innovation in the field of wireless communication. No one would want to buy a big screen or go to the movies if Isak Dinesen had not written Out of Africa or if David Beckham had not invented the banana, another high art form.
However, in Spain, culture as a sector of GDP (gross domestic product) and gross value added has fallen several places in the European rankings, placing it behind Germany, France and Italy, and at an astronomical distance from the European rankings. Cultural giants, the USA and China. This is despite the fact that between 2011 and 2020 employment in cultural and creative activities in all sectors in Spain grew much faster than employment in the Spanish economy as a whole. Despite this growth, which is curious, the employment level of workers devoting themselves to creative and cultural professions outside the cultural sector (1.32%) is even higher than its counterpart in it (1.25%). As if people who devote themselves to cultural professions cannot live from their work and need a job outside of their artistic work to be able to survive, ahem… (sarcasm in situation), ahem, ahem.
This new idea of considering culture as an economic engine with numbers and data, which Pedro Alberto Cruz had already tried in the region when he was Minister of Culture and Tourism – although for reasons that require another article, I do not share his approach to it. Managing them and then criticizing them harshly – can serve us for many things: not to consider the arts exclusively as businesses, but when it comes to demanding from the government – and from contracting businessmen – respectful treatment, resources commensurate with the level of movement we generate, the people of culture and the presence of cultural industries in all regional development agendas. . We, the people of art and culture, are producers of “content”, developing structural change and promoting entrepreneurship in multiple sectors. Therefore, we represent vectors of development that are transmitted to the entire economy (Lee and Rodríguez-Pose, 2014b). We want to participate in the development of this country from the center and not from its handouts. We’re not crazy: we know we can do it.
No, it’s not that we feminists have gone crazy repeating words, but rather that the term “tractor” when functioning as an adjective is applied to the ability of some things to attract other things and generate synergy. For example, if an important factory is located in a lost town, roads, plumbers, taxis or shops will certainly spawn in the town to provide services to the workers and arriving goods. Cultural manifestations (plays, exhibitions, restoration of paintings, poetry, etc.) lead to: shops, people in restaurants, public or private events – with the resulting trips, hotels, fashions -, printing presses, paper trade, films, which in turn led to the emergence of… Recording studios, sound technicians, lighting, makeup, hair stylists, fashion, influencers…). This means that art and culture not only serve to analyze our time and express our feelings or criticisms, but they also generate works and energize entire fields. Culture is a powerful driving entity in the global economy.
The study of interest in the economic value of cultural and creative activities (CCA) began in the UK, at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and has since been analyzed from multiple perspectives. First, the creation of wealth and employment through its direct productive activity is highlighted. Second, these activities have the potential to have impacts on the economy and society that go beyond the arts production sector itself, either because culture, creativity and design are allied with sectors to which they are not directly related, such as gastronomy or travel, or because they have the potential to foster social innovation and concentrate talent in Highly cross-disciplinary. Cultural content is also a generator of series, films, and platforms such as Netflix, digital media, etc., which in turn generate news and enhance searches on screens, phones or computers. As well as materials for batteries and innovation in the field of wireless communication. No one would want to buy a big screen or go to the movies if Isak Dinesen had not written Out of Africa or if David Beckham had not invented the banana, another high art form.
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