Placing Power in the Creative City: Governmentalities and Subjectivities in Liberty Village, Toronto

2009/10/19 by John Paul Catungal, Deborah Leslie · 44 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Urban Planning and Governance #Management and Organizational Studies #Governmentality #Creative city #Identity (music) #Sociology #Power (physics) #Property (philosophy) #Media studies #Gender studies #Law #Political science #Aesthetics #Creativity #Art #Politics #Epistemology

paper · doi:10.1068/a41245

published in Environment and Planning A Economy and Space 41(11), 2576-2594 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

In this paper we analyze the making of Liberty Village as a creative hub in inner-city Toronto. We focus on the role of property developers and the Liberty Village Business Improvement Association in fostering the area's internal economic geography. Drawing on the literature on governmentality, we dissect how the production of a place identity requires both the production of new subjectivities and the exclusion of alternative actors and understandings of organization within the district.

Citations

• Structural Holes and Good Ideas
• Struggling with the Creative Class
• The Subject and Power
• Neo-liberalism: Policy, Ideology, Governmentality

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