On Berlin’s cultural industry: Exploitation and selective inclusion
The city’s cultural policies commodify artistic expression and manipulate diversity, perpetuating power imbalances and constrains genuine cultural innovation.
Zaydoun Hajjar is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, while working at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. With a background in Migration studies and Sociology, his research focuses on music and migration, as well as transnational cultural production within the context of neocolonialism and capitalistic consumer markets. His current research is on Levantine musicians in Berlin and how they are impacted by current cultural structure that are in place.
The city’s cultural policies commodify artistic expression and manipulate diversity, perpetuating power imbalances and constrains genuine cultural innovation.