When Cultural Workers Become an Urban Social Movement: Political Subjectification and Alternative Cultural Production in the Macao Movement, Milan

Valli, Chiara

doi:10.1068/a140096p

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“…This paper describes the economic (income) and social (age, gender, education) profile of those working in just such ‘third’ places and examines the reasons third places are used, the benefits they offer and the level of satisfaction they provide according to functionality and working conditions (hours worked, social security insurance, subcontracting–outsourcing relations) in contrast to working from home or from formal workplaces. Geographers have been deeply engaged in critically analysing issues of immaterial labour, the alterations of ‘workplace’ in the era of digital capitalism and the ways space enables or constrains creative and cultural activities in cities and regions (Gill and Pratt ; Valli ; Green and Livanos ). The paper is positioned among the literature of geographies of work (Herod ; Castree et al .…”

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Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Avdikos

Kalogeresis

2016

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Third places, such as business incubators, co‐working spaces and work collectives, represent a new ecosystem of collaborative working practices in the creative economy that alters significantly the spatial distribution of work and the notion of ‘workplace’. Collaborative workplaces emerged after the gradual collapse of the stable employment paradigm that was one of the main features of the Keynesian welfare state and as a response to precarious working conditions that were augmented during the recent economic crisis and the subsequent recession. The paper contributes to the critical understanding of these new geographies of workplace and working conditions that third places manifest. Using data from a large survey about the economics and the working conditions of Greek designers and from four interviews with freelancers in work collectives and facilitators of co‐working spaces, the paper sheds light on the socio‐economic profile and the working conditions of Greek freelance designers that use co‐working spaces and work collectives as means of reducing precarious working conditions and personal–professional risks. The results show that designers in third places, in contrast to freelancers who use formal workplaces or work from home, work long hours with poor pay and a large proportion have no safety net with regard to social security. Third places can be enclaves of the shadow economy and of very specific precarious working conditions. On the other hand, third places help freelance designers become more embedded to business networks, both local and foreign, rather than working in isolation. Networking effects between freelancers and self‐employed who choose to work in third places usually result in greater opportunities for outsourcing and subcontracting and in more exports.

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Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Avdikos

Kalogeresis

2016

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“…Artists and activists run new forms of management of the theatre schedule and laboratory while organising political meetups. As observed in other occupied theatres (Satta and Scandurra, 2014;Valli, 2015), at first they consider the occupation as a symbolic form of protest. Then, they create an organised artistic and political project that aims to rebuild or refund a cultural institution cognisant of the commons (Maddanu, 2018).…”

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Youth and the Politics of the Present

Colombo¹,

Rebughini²

2019

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Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues surrounding the effects of globalization and the directions in which Western societies are steering their future. Containing a wide range of empirical and comparative examples from across Europe, this title highlights how young adults are trying to implement new forms of understanding, interpretation and action to cope with unprecedented situations; developing new forms of relationships, identifications and belonging while they experience new and unprecedented forms of inclusion and exclusion. Grounding this exploration is the suggestion that careful observations of the everyday practices of young adults can be an excellent vantage point to grasp how and in what direction the future of contemporary Western societies is heading. Offering an original and provocative investigation, Youth and the Politics of the Present will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Globalization Studies, Migration Studies, Gender Studies and Social Policy.

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“…The movement, later on renamed MACAO, wanted to raise concerns about the ways in which creative work, and jobs, are valued not only in the city itself, but also globally. So, the action of occupying a building opened up a conversation (with the City Council) on how to make better use of vacant or underused buildings, for example, by accommodating spatial and social needs not yet emerged (Valli 2015). Activists claimed that "MACAO was not simply a space," putting the emphasis on participants and their collective aspirations.…”

Section: Example 1: the Environing Of Public Assembly: Macao And The mentioning

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Cultural Ecology and Cultural Critique

Bailey

Booth-Kurpnieks

Davies

et al. 2019

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In 2015, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) commissioned John Holden, visiting professor at City University, London, and associate at the think-tank Demos, to write a report on culture as part of its Cultural Value Project. The claim within the report was to redirect culture away from economic prescriptions and to focus on ecological approaches to ‘value’. Holden considers the application and use of ecological tropes to re-situate culture as ‘non-hierarchical’ and as part of symbiotic social processes. By embracing metaphors of ‘emergence,’ ‘interdependence,’ ‘networks,’ and ‘convergence,’ he suggests we can “gain new understandings about how culture works, and these understandings in turn help with policy information and implementation”. This article addresses the role of ‘cultural critique’ in the live environments and ecologies of place-making. It will consider, with examples, how cultural production, cultural practices, and cultural forms generate mixed ecologies of relations between aesthetic, psychic, economic, political, and ethical materialisms. With reference to a body of situated knowledges, derived from place studies to eco-regionalisms, urban to art criticisms, we will consider ecological thinking as a new mode of cultural critique for initiating arts and cultural policy change. Primarily, the operant concept of ‘environing’ will be considered as the condition of possibility for the space of critique. This includes necessary and strategic actions, where mixed ecologies of cultural activity work against the disciplinary policing of space with new assemblages of distributed power

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When Cultural Workers Become an Urban Social Movement: Political Subjectification and Alternative Cultural Production in the Macao Movement, Milan

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Socio‐economic profile and working conditions of freelancers in co‐working spaces and work collectives: evidence from the design sector in Greece

Youth and the Politics of the Present

Cultural Ecology and Cultural Critique

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