1st Edition
Culture and the City Creativity, Tourism, Leisure
1. Culture, Policy and the City: Tracing its Dimensions Deborah Stevenson and Amie Matthews 2. University students and the ‘creative city’ Kate Shaw and Ruth Fincher 3. Cultural policy in Shanghai: the politics of caution in the global city Tina Schilbach 4. Putting leisure to work: city image and representations of nightlife Nathaniel Bavinton 5. Dressed up and sipping rum: local activities within the touristic space of Trinidad, Cuba Maki Tanaka 6. Arts festivals, urban tourism and cultural policy Bernadette Quinn 7. Situating Leisure in the Cultural Economy Deborah Stevenson and Amie Matthews
Biography
Deborah Stevenson is Research Professor at the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. She has published extensively on cities and urban cultures – with a particular emphasis on urban cultural policy and place and identity – and her work has been translated into several languages, including Chinese.
Amie Matthews is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Amie has conducted extensive research into the backpacking culture, focusing in particular on travel as a contemporary rite of passage, youth travel and cosmopolitanism, and the tourist imaginary.
