Production values: from cultural industries to the governance of culture

This aim of this paper is to introduce this special theme issue and to reposition the debate about cultural industries in a broader perspective and in so doing to open up new research possibilities. The paper argues against the analysis of cultural industries in a separate realm (either the industrial, economic or cultural) and in favour of a hybrid notion that interweaves industry and culture. It offers the notion of ‘the governance of culture’ as a potential perspective for future work.