Interpretive Repertoires on the Creative Economy in the City of Uberlândia: the Music Market from the Perspective of the Orange Ecosystem

Creative Economy can be understood as an asset of economic, cultural and social aspects that interact with technology, intellectual property and tourism. This article aims to analyze the creative sector in the city of Uberlândia from the perspective of music professionals. As a starting point, the framework of Ecology Naranja was used. For data collection, the procedure of in-depth interviews with music experts was adopted. Each subject was interviewed using three distinct and complementary techniques: episodic and narrative interview and projective technique. The potential of music in Uberlândia was seen beyond the economic point of view, highlighting the social promotion and appreciation of local culture. The results made it possible to make considerations about: (a) creation, in the musician's action in face of the standardization of the "right way to behave” in the music market;(b) joy, in the virtual adaptation of a "right style”;and, (c) the environment, in the relationship between forgotten regions and the various institutions and public policies linked to culture. The academic contribution goes in the sense that the current work filled a gap in studies on the subject, with regard to Uberlândia, in addition to showing the use of remote data collection techniques, in compliance with the social isolation regime in the fight against the pandemic of Covid-19. © 2023, Universidade de Taubate. All rights reserved.

Hotel owners' perception of tourism in India during the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeThe paper aims to study hotel owners' perception of tourism in the five creative cities of India during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured, in-depth interviews (N = 30) and participant observation were the methods used for collecting qualitative data. Data was analysed using content analysis.FindingsThe findings reveal the effect of tourism on the psyche of small and medium enterprise hotel owners. Factors contributing to this anxiety are unpreparedness for the crisis, cash flow problems, failure to be flexible in this crisis, inability to leverage hotel's location and lack of hygiene habits.Research limitations/implicationsThe research illustrated a systemic lack of knowledge and training in the unorganized hotel sector in India which if addressed, could assist the hotel owners and staff in building trust toward tourists and a positive attitude toward the crisis.Originality/valueAs the study analyses the unorganized hotel sector in the Indian context, it provides useful insights for the Indian Government and hospitality industry to foster trust and positivity in this sector during the COVID-19 pandemic which could significantly contribute to its revival and psychological recovery of its stakeholders.

The Changes in Public Spaces Usages for Performing Arts Sector After Covid-19 Disruption in Surakarta, Indonesia

The existence of a public space enables all creative actors in the world to arrange performing arts activities at the local, national, and international levels. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the capability of the communities to interact with each other, changing the public space requirements of different types of performing art. This article is aimed to identify the differences between public spaces’ usages for the performing arts sector before and after the pandemic Covid-19. In this research, Surakarta is chosen as the study case as it is one of the creative cities which is dependent on performing arts sectors. The determination of interviewees is done through the purposive sampling technique to find stakeholders as representatives that know well about the performing art sector in Surakarta. Through content analysis of the stakeholder perspectives, we identify the change in public space usage in promoting each type of performing art in Surakarta. We found that there are new parameters in determining the use of public space for the performing arts: the area, the scale of the public space, and the public space design. These three new parameters explain the different public space capacities in Surakarta to promote performing arts in Surakarta. Thus, the present work can be used to understand more what is needed to make public space reliable to adapt to the new normal era.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Emergence of Creative Cities in Indonesia: Comparative Studies from Pekalongan, Yogyakarta, and Surakarta During the Covid-19 Pandemic

As a global platform, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have reinforced country’s institutional capacity to meet the international standard compliance. Creative city concept is one among those linking the SDGs targeting agenda to the local development policy. This study investigates if the implementation of creative city concept may succeed the fulfilment of SDGs targets. We selected three cities in Indonesia for comparative study: Pekalongan, Yogyakarta, and Surakarta. Our observation completed during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. We combined targeted questionnaire to academics, business, community, and government (ABCG) stakeholders with content analysis of the government publications and regulations. The result shows that Pekalongan City Government has managed well in actualising creative city concept from the policymaking to program implementation. The Yogyakarta City Government seems inconvenience in specifying targeted creative industry to promote local economy. For the Surakarta case, the targeted creative industry has little support in the local development policy. Lack of institutional capacity and trained staffs might be the main reasons for slow implementation of these ideas into local government context. Consequently, creative city concept and SDGs agenda are more favoured as a short- to medium-term project rather than a long-lasting city development vision.

The soft power of hard tech—The “Shenzhen Model” as an ideological device

In August 2019, The Shenzhen Model City Initiative was released in which the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced its decision to support Shenzhen, the long-standing poster city for China’s economic reform, in building a demonstration pilot zone for Chinese socialism with a particular emphasis on further developing the city’s technological prowess. What are the ideological implications of the latest model-making of Shenzhen? And how does the city’s innovative turn relate to its role as the nation’s perceived civilizational front line? This study explores the continuities and evolution of contemporary Chinese governance by considering the reinvention of the “Shenzhen Model” in relation to processes of urbanization, globalization and industrial upgrading. Drawing upon Tim Oakes’s theory of the “urban” as an ideological device, it examines the (re)making of the “Shenzhen Model” through different discourses, apparatuses and policies related to the city’s technological innovationand entrepreneurship. Situating the “Shenzhen Model” at a time of precarity and uncertainty amidst economic growth slowdown, the China-United States trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic, this article demonstrates how the state mobilizes narratives and practices pertinent to technological innovation and entrepreneurship to enhance its political influence and thus sheds light on the latest developments in urban governance during China’s post-industrial turn. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Eurasian Geography & Economics is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

The Effect of Digital Entrepreneurship on Creative Cities: In Pandemic Covid-19 Era

The purpose of this study is to find out how the influence of digital entrepreneurship on creative cities in the current Covid-19 pandemic conditions, the research was conducted in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, which is one of the cities in the world with the status of a creative city. The analysis in this study uses three dimensions of digital entrepreneurship variables, namely entrepreneur, entrepreneurship process, and ecosystem, as well as creative city variables. This research is based on a quantitative approach with a sample of 314 creative industry players in the city of Bandung. The statistical method used to test the hypothesis in this study is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) through the Partial Least Square (PLS) v3.0 approach. The research findings show that entrepreneurs have a significant effect on creative cities, with a contribution of 19.4%, the Entrepreneurship process has a significant effect on creative cities, with a contribution of 29.2%, and Ecosystems have a significant effect on creative cities, with a contribution of 28.6%. Overall, the condition of Digital Entrepreneurship has a significant effect on supporting the creative city of Bandung, with a total contribution of 77.2% which is dominated by the entrepreneurship process while the remaining 22.8% is the influence of other factors not examined. From the value of the contribution of the entrepreneurship process that dominates, it can be seen that the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has created new habits from creative industry players in the City of Bandung by maximizing the use of technology and internet networks, without being limited by space that can be accessed by everyone, this is what changes business. from offline to online, so digital entrepreneurship has a big impact on the creative industry to support the status of a creative city owned by the city of Bandung. Research on the role and interaction of creative economy stakeholders involved in the digital entrepreneurship ecosystem in supporting creative cities is a suggestion for further research © 2022. Specialusis Ugdymas.All Rights Reserved

Hotel owners’ perception of tourism in India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Purpose The paper aims to study hotel owners' perception of tourism in the five creative cities of India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured, in-depth interviews (N = 30) and participant observation were the methods used for collecting qualitative data. Data was analysed using content analysis. Findings The findings reveal the effect of tourism on the psyche of small and medium enterprise hotel owners. Factors contributing to this anxiety are unpreparedness for the crisis, cash flow problems, failure to be flexible in this crisis, inability to leverage hotel's location and lack of hygiene habits. Research limitations/implications The research illustrated a systemic lack of knowledge and training in the unorganized hotel sector in India which if addressed, could assist the hotel owners and staff in building trust toward tourists and a positive attitude toward the crisis. Originality/value As the study analyses the unorganized hotel sector in the Indian context, it provides useful insights for the Indian Government and hospitality industry to foster trust and positivity in this sector during the COVID-19 pandemic which could significantly contribute to its revival and psychological recovery of its stakeholders.

'Covid-19 opened the pandora box' of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan

Creative and cultural workers (CCWs) concentrate in large cities due to the livelihood opportunities they facilitate. Synchronously, cities have experienced the highest rate of Covid-19 infections. Focusing on the case study of Milan, the paper explores the criticalities of the sector and the impact of the pandemic using qualitative interviews and digital ethnography. It highlights how C-19 has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism on CCWs, illuminating their precarious working conditions but paradoxically providing time and focus for workers to collectively organise. This paper captures CCWs use of the city to make their precarious working conditions visible in response to the unsustainable demands of neoliberalism. It also engages with the need for re-futuring contemporary understanding of the creative city, questioning the value of agglomeration economies and creative city policies, especially if workers' rights and livelihoods do not become central to the future local policy agenda.

The Creative Services Sector in Polish Cities

The creative services sector plays an important and constantly growing role in the modern economy. This publication presents the results of extensive research on the functioning of the creative sector in Polish cities, conducted on a representative sample of 287 cities located throughout Poland. The sample was good in such a way as to maintain the structure by province. The survey included questions rated on a 5-point Likert scale. The aim of the research was to study the functioning of the creative sector in Polish cities and to determine whether the active involvement of public administration in its development has a positive impact on this sector. The research was carried out on the example of a medium-sized European country, which is Poland. The original contribution of the authors of the publication is to demonstrate, on a large research sample, the existence of a positive impact of the municipal office’s activities on the creative sector for example using special funds to boost creativity sector in the city, and to ascertain the existence of a linear relationship between the city size and the level of the creative sector functioning in it.