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- Oakley, K. & Ward, J. (2018). The art of the good life: Culture and sustainable prosperity. Cultural Trends, 27(1), 4-17.
This paper analyses the potential for cultural work to encourage alternative visions of the ‘good life’, in particular, how it might encourage a kind of ‘sustainable prosperity’ wherein human flourishing is not linked to high levels of material consumption, but rather the capabilities to engage with cultural and creative practices and communities.
- Cohen, M. J. (2020). Does the COVID-19 outbreak mark the onset of a sustainable consumption transition?. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), 1-3.
This brief paper discusses sustainable prosperity principles as they relate to the COVID19 pandemic.
- Banks, M. (2018). Creative economies of tomorrow? Limits to growth and the uncertain future. Cultural Trends, 27(5), 367-380.
This paper contributes to emerging critiques of UK creative economy policy by challenging the unremitting celebration of ‘growth’ as the primary indicator of economic success.
- Duxbury, N., Kangas, A., De Beukelaer, C. (2017). Cultural policies for sustainable development: Four strategic paths. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(2), 214-230.
This paper proposes four roles cultural policy can play towards sustainable development in response to the UN sustainable development goals.
- van Barneveld, K., Quinlan, M., Kriesler, P., Junor, A., Baum, F., Chowdhury, A., … & Rainnie, A. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 31(2), 133-157.
This discussion paper by a group of scholars across the fields of health, economics, and labour relations argues that COVID-19 is an unprecedented humanitarian crisis from which there can be no return to the ‘old normal’. The pandemic’s disastrous worldwide health impacts have been exacerbated by, and have compounded, the unsustainability of economic globalisation based on the neoliberal dismantling of state capabilities in favour of markets.
- Goffman, E. (2020). In the wake of COVID-19, is glocalization our sustainability future?. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), 48-52.
This paper argues for a new ‘glocalization’ to advance in tandem with reduced air travel, local production, smart growth, and greatly reduced automobile trips, among other measures. Adapted locally but with a globally co-operative ethic, these measures are argued to be the best way to simultaneously alleviate the rapidly moving pandemic crisis and the slower moving environmental crisis.
- Jeannotte, M. S. (2021). When the gigs are gone: Valuing arts, culture and media in the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 3(1), 100097.
This paper proposes a four-part conceptual framework that uses economic, social, creative, and sustainability lenses to examine the immediate impact of the pandemic on creators, curators and the media.
Place-Specific Approaches to Sustainable Prosperity in the Arts & Cultural Sector 