Dario Lolli receives a Leverhulme International Fellowship

Dario describes his project:

"While today’s creative economy heavily relies on the exchange of leased intellectual properties, the impact of ordinary licensing arrangements on non-Western creative practices remains largely understudied. This project builds on my earlier theorisation of licensing as a global infrastructure (Lolli 2022) to collaborate with experts in the Japanese creative industries who have found my framework effective in identifying recent shifts in Japanese design, fashion, branding, and media. Based at Ritsumeikan University’s Creative Media Research Centre (CMRC) in Kyoto – a leading hub for research on Japan’s creative industries – I will engage in a programme of seminars, empirical fieldwork, and cross-disciplinary exchange. This will allow me to strengthen my theoretical and empirical approach for a monograph on the transnational licensing of Japanese media franchises. At the same time, it will also lay the groundwork for future collaborative projects that critically examine what is at stake when ‘culture’ – which shapes our social identities – becomes a resource for value-added creative economies based on marketable affects, values, and innovations."

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