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Attitudes of Cultural Workers towards Creative Industries Development and the City in Southeastern Europe

The article is based on interviews with cultural workers in creative industries in SEE, in the context of research on the current position of creative industries in Southeastern Europe. There are three different models of the strategies of cultural workers that can be deciphered: those that ask for a radical change of the system ; those that think that the changes should be made, but some positive features of the system should stay ; and those that have an orientation towards global market. In the context of the urban surroundings that are influencing their work, one can note that there are those that like metropolitan buzz as an inspiration and basis for their work (cities such as Belgrade and Zagreb), and there are those who like smaller cities such as Podgorica and Split for the quality of life lived in them although they lack the (cultural) infrastructure. All in all, cultural workers perceive the need for the overall strategy for the development of the cultural field: the need for the changes of the existing structures and institutions, the necessity for the strict criteria and the transparent evaluation and funding, regulation of the piracy, and the law regarding the discipline ; the need for the admitting the sector changes towards the market ; the need for the changes in the statistics so that the evaluation of the field would be better ; the alteration of the attitude towards the field of culture ; and education of cultural managers, and cultural producers.

cultural workers, creative industries, Southeastern Europe

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