WORKING AREAS
The notion of cultural entrepreneurship in local, regional, and global contexts lies at the heart of CEDITRAA’s research interest. We examine how cultural entrepreneurs navigate tensions between local audiences and regional-global interactions and how these tensions are remodelled by the forces of digitization.
In phase II (2025 – 2027), four working areas explore various dimensions of cultural distribution and its impact on cultural production: first, the infrastructures, formats, and regulatory frameworks of distribution and how they shape spheres of exchange and cultural spaces; second, the intersection of production and promotion within distribution practices, examining how actors in these fields actively construct audiences; third, the role of digital distribution as a tool of soft power, particularly how state actors strategically utilize regional cultural products to pursue economic or security policy interests; and fourth, the nexus between archives and distribution practices, investigating how archival practices transform through the digital redistribution of archival materials.
In phase II (2025 – 2027), four working areas explore various dimensions of cultural distribution and its impact on cultural production: first, the infrastructures, formats, and regulatory frameworks of distribution and how they shape spheres of exchange and cultural spaces; second, the intersection of production and promotion within distribution practices, examining how actors in these fields actively construct audiences; third, the role of digital distribution as a tool of soft power, particularly how state actors strategically utilize regional cultural products to pursue economic or security policy interests; and fourth, the nexus between archives and distribution practices, investigating how archival practices transform through the digital redistribution of archival materials.
In phase I (2021 – 2024), four initial working areas focused on different aspects of cultural entrepreneurship: first, the forms, formats, and content of cultural creation and innovation in the production of cultural goods; second, the legal frameworks which govern the transnational appropriation and recombination of cultural content in grey zones between references, citations, and plagiarism; third, the role of archives, understood as collective memory, embodied knowledge, and heritage institutions; and fourth, the role of recipients, that is, how different local, regional, and global audiences shape production networks and how cultural products get diffused in their regions.
PROJECTS
Our research is organised in several projects, with each of them contributing to several working areas. Please select your preferred areas, regions, and industries below to find projects that correspond with your interest.
