The Politics of Cultural Work

Banks, Mark

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“…iii '[A]utonomy is not born of freedom from others, the mistaken view that MacIntyre attributes to Nietzsche, Sartre and much liberal thinking' (Breen 2007: 400). iv For a cogent and helpful analysis of the specific meanings of autonomy in relation to cultural labour, see the article by Mark Banks in this special issue, and also Banks 2007 andRyan 1992. v Creativity was tied closely to this. As Maslow himself put it, 'the concept of creativeness and the concept of the self-actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing' (Maslow 1971, quoted in Illouz 2007.…”

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“…ii Banks (2007) makes a significant advance in this respect, by setting both critical theory and governmentality perspectives on cultural work against the more optimistic perspectives of what he calls 'liberal-democratic readings of modernization ' (2007: 95). iii '[A]utonomy is not born of freedom from others, the mistaken view that MacIntyre attributes to Nietzsche, Sartre and much liberal thinking' (Breen 2007: 400).…”

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Normativity and Social Justice in the Analysis of Creative Labour

Hesmondhalgh¹

2010

Journal for Cultural Research

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There has been a remarkable rise in studies of creative or cultural labour in recent years. Much of this research has emerged from cultural studies. Cultural studies writers have drawn attention to political questions of subjectivity that tend to be neglected in Marxian and other approaches to labour. In doing so, they have drawn, directly and indirectly, on post-structuralist concepts and assumptions. I discuss these critical cultural studies approaches briefly in the first section of this article. My claim is that, in spite of their important contributions, such studies lack clear conceptions of what might constitute good work, including good work in the cultural industries (which is how 'creative labour' is defined here). This failure to offer an adequate normative grounding limits critique. To help fill this lacuna, I then outline research that emphasises concepts of autonomy and selfrealisation as components of good work (sections 2 and 3), followed by a post-structuralist critique of this research. I question this critique, in order to suggest some of the limits of post-structuralist perspectives on work more generally (section 4). These debates in the sociology of work and organisations do not directly concern creative or cultural work, but they throw important light on it. In particular, as I explain in section 5, they illustrate some of the problems of rejecting normativity in relation to labour. I begin the final part of the article (section 6) by claiming that debates about creative labour need to be considered as part of broader debates about the distribution of good or meaningful work across modern societies. Briefly referring to political philosophy's treatment of work, I suggest some ways in which attention to such issues might advance studies of creative labour.

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Normativity and Social Justice in the Analysis of Creative Labour

Hesmondhalgh¹

2010

Journal for Cultural Research

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“…9 At the same time, this symbiosis relates to the fact that these businesses are deeply embedded in, and committed to, local social, cultural and urban contexts. It forms the contexts for their practice as individuals, businesses and as networkers Drake, 2003;Shorthose, 2004;Banks, 2007). This was a much more ambiguous relationship as it could cut across the interest in development gain through property prices that drove the new city centre growth coalition.…”

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“…Its work on local urban cultures included a conference on the 'night-time economy' in 1994); a consultancy on the Northern Quarter for Manchester City Council, 1995/6; three UK Economic and Social Research Council Projects (cf. Wynne and O'Connor, 1998;Brown et al, 2000;Banks et al 2000;Banks, 2007) and a large scale study Cultural Production in Manchester, which provided the research basis for CIDS. This document became publicly unavailable after the closure of MIPC.…”

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Developing a Creative Cluster in a Postindustrial City: CIDS and Manchester

O’Connor

2010

The Information Society

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“…This resonates with analyses of communities of practice as involved in the pursuit of internal goods that operate according to their own sets of negotiated standards, norms and rules. Value is here signified within the context of a central practice that organizes the community of practitioners, and has been conceptualized as an alternative economy by some academics (see Banks, 2007Banks, , 2010b). …”

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Creative work and affect: Social, political and fantasmatic dynamics in the labour of musicians

Hoedemaekers

2017

Human Relations

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How can we understand contradictory identifications within work to which one is passionately attached? This article explores how seemingly competing accounts of the self at work can not only appear side by side within the self-presentation of creative workers, but also how dominant patterns within the daily socio-economic realities of creative work are reproduced through faux-contestations of them. Following Glynos and Howarth, I will argue that such transgressive notions often recall earlier historical arrangements that have been displaced by current dominant social grammars, or were vital components of the institution of current social hegemony. In a study of musicians, I analyse how alongside dominant logics of employability and virtuosity, traditional notions of artists' craft and autonomy drive counter-identifications that allow dominant social logics to fill the gaps in the indeterminacy and ambiguity of everyday lived experience. By applying an understanding of discursive logics to creative work, this article seeks to contribute to literatures spanning work in the cultural industries, identification, affect and transgression at work, and commons and immaterial labour.

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The Politics of Cultural Work

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Normativity and Social Justice in the Analysis of Creative Labour

Normativity and Social Justice in the Analysis of Creative Labour

Developing a Creative Cluster in a Postindustrial City: CIDS and Manchester

Creative work and affect: Social, political and fantasmatic dynamics in the labour of musicians

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