The Creative Economy, 'Grudge' Spending
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BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Creative Economy: Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at the Goldsmiths, questions what's at stake in the new politics of culture and creativity. Talking to a range of artists, stylists, fashion designers and policy makers, she considers if the new 'creative economy' is a form of labour reform which accustoms the young, urban middle classes to a world of work which lacks the security of previous generations. She's joined by Christopher Frayling, Chancellor of the Arts University, Bournemouth and former Chair of the Arts Council England. Grudge spending: Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, explores how we feel about buying security, compared to more enjoyable forms of spending.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
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| 0:11.7 | Hello, you know it would be refreshing to think that the major arguments we had with our partners |
| 0:16.9 | are about something as serious and consequential as say, well, state of the economy or the future of Trident, but I can all too vividly remember that the major |
| 0:26.2 | bone of contention between myself and someone I'll call Bridget was her insistence before |
| 0:31.8 | ever leaving home that the living room light was left on |
| 0:34.8 | so as to deter any passing burglars. For get locked and keys and chains and alarm systems |
| 0:39.7 | and closed circuit television, my word, as soon as Burglars spotted that living room light, the |
| 0:45.3 | hall light doesn't work so well, Bridget was always insist, they knew the game was well |
| 0:50.1 | and truly up. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, my sense that there is something odd, something if you like non-rational about our |
| 0:56.0 | attitudes towards security has now been solidly confirmed by a new sociological review research |
| 1:01.1 | paper with the intriguing title Grunge Spending, Grud Spending The Interplay |
| 1:05.9 | Between Markets and Culture in the Purchase of Security. I'm now joined by its lead |
| 1:10.4 | author Ian Loder, who's professor of criminology at All Souls, Oxford. |
| 1:15.8 | What's it prompted this study was really the idea you had that there was something about |
| 1:20.2 | spending on security, which didn't fit normal patterns of consumerism? |
| 1:25.0 | Well that was a question. What really prompted the study was a kind of concern that when you |
| 1:29.0 | mix together kind of fear of crime and consumption the result of this is going to be a kind of |
| 1:33.9 | crime and consumption. The result of this is going to be a kind of ratcheting up in the amount |
| 1:36.4 | and kinds of things that people buy as they return to the market to get the best |
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