The increasing occurrence of discontent and conflict regarding making creative cities across the globe has led scholars to pay significant attention to the political dimension of creative-city policies. This study, by exploring the controversy over the Incheon Art Platform, a warehouse-turned art space in Incheon, South Korea, offers a situated understanding of how the city government’s entrepreneurial approach to the creative city was resisted and reinterpreted by local civil society groups. Against the backdrop of enhanced urban entrepreneurialism and the rise of civil activism in Incheon, the arrival of the creative city concept has generated opposing interpretations of the role of art and culture between the city government and civil society groups. Given the state’s expansionist policy toward the cultural sector in the nation, the entrepreneurial version of a creative city was first resisted by local cultural actors along with government-sponsored artists and subsequently sparked an artist-inspired anti-entrepreneurism protest in the city. This paper demonstrated how the creative city became a subject of political struggle within the unique relationship between the state and the cultural sector in South Korea, thereby contributing to enriching global urban knowledge on making and remaking creative cities beyond the Global North.

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创业型创意城市及其不满情绪：韩国仁川艺术主导的城市复兴政治


全球范围内关于建设创意城市的不满和冲突日益增多，这导致学者们非常重视创意城市政策的政治层面。本研究通过探讨韩国仁川由仓库改建的艺术空间仁川艺术平台的争议，提供了对市政府对创意城市的创业方式如何受到当地民间社会团体的抵制和重新解释的情境理解。在仁川城市创业精神增强和公民行动主义兴起的背景下，创意城市概念的到来引发了市政府和民间社会团体之间对艺术和文化作用的对立解释。鉴于该州对该国文化部门的扩张政策，创业版的创意城市首先受到当地文化行为者和政府资助的艺术家的抵制，随后在该市引发了一场由艺术家启发的反企业家主义抗议活动。本文展示了创意城市如何在韩国国家和文化部门之间的独特关系中成为政治斗争的主题，从而有助于丰富全球城市知识，以打造和重塑北半球以外的创意城市。