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Abstract

Fabian and Rowan explore how notions of creativity, participation, and work have been deployed and reformulated in discourses, policy frameworks, and economic models designed in order to transform cultural practices into economic activities. The figure of the cultural entrepreneur and the widespread promotion of intellectual property is analysed as part of the neoliberalisation of the wider economy. As an alternative figure to the cultural entrepreneur that reproduces the premise of “individual creativity," the chapter identifies contemporary examples of creative and cultural practices where social cooperation are central to cultural production, despite the normative framework of policies, schemes, and institutions aimed at promoting the creative industries and its implicit notion of individual creativity.