Trilce Navarrete Hernandez co-edits new book ‘Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic’

This book aims at filling the literature gap about the consequences of one of the hardest crises – COVID-19 – severely impacting all the fields of the CCIs. With a focus on European countries and taking into account the evolving and unstable context caused by the pandemic still in progress, this book investigates the first reactions and actual strategies of CCIs’ actors, government bodies, and cultural institutions facing the COVID-19 crisis and the potential consequences of these emergency strategies for the future of the CCIs. Solutions adopted during the repeated lockdowns by CCIs’ actors could originate new forms of cultural consumption and/or new innovative market strategies. This book brings together a constellation of contributors to analyze the cultural sector as it seeks to emerge from this existential challenge. It includes 15 chapters on various actors of the cultural sector responding to the crises from across the European Member States.

Dr. Trilce Navarrete Hernandez wrote the conclusions of the book, in which she states that 3 key common messages can be highlighted: (1) culture was deemed as non-essential in our society; (2) there is lack of sufficient data available from the cultural sector, in this case to inform policy response; and (3) the extraordinary nature of the pandemic disrupted all processes at global level, which gave valuable insights to study and understand culture and the creative sector.