Cultural Production and Everyday Life Series with Concordia University Press

Co-edited with Benjamin Woo

How are culture, commerce, and policy knit together at the level of the everyday? Cultural Production and Everyday Life disrupts narrow, economistic, and instrumentalized views of culture and seeks to expand what counts as “cultural production” and who counts as a “cultural producer” beyond creative industries success stories. By focusing on lived experience and always insisting on thinking of the cultural and the social together, this series provides lines of inquiry into cultural forms, producers, and communities that have been marginalized, received less attention, or otherwise have not been considered cultural or significant.

Cultural Production and Everyday Life will publish short, focused works that offer a more inclusive view of culture and creativity, all while being grounded in empirical inquiry. By examining the unpaid cultural work of hobbyists, volunteers, and aspirants alongside that of paid creative professionals, this series will embed cultural production in lived experience while accounting for the forces that produce “winners” and “losers” in the creative economy. The series will publish contributions that read either as manifestoes for studying the practices and contexts that shape the production of media, communication, and culture, or as focused vignettes exploring particular sites, spaces, and scenes in rich detail. The result is an altogether messier and more illuminating account of cultural production, circulation, and reception, providing new directions for the study of the cultural, media, and creative industries.

Interested in publishing a short book with us? Get in touch at miranda [dot] campbell [a] torontomu [dot] ca