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This chapter considers the relationship between intellectuals and cultural policies, in particular in the role played by various categories of ‘expert’ in the production of the official discourse on creativity that now occupies the conceptual high ground and has effectively displaced — or at least obscured — the discourse on the cultural industries.1
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Schlesinger, P. (2015). Intellectuals and Cultural Policies. In: Albornoz, L.A. (eds) Power, Media, Culture. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540089_3
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