Creative placemaking and the cultural projectariat: Artistic work in the wake of Hull City of Culture 2017
| Autor: | Graham Symon, Charles Umney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
History Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Placemaking 0506 political science Creative industries Scholarship Precarity Work (electrical) Aesthetics 0502 economics and business H1 050602 political science & public administration Precarious work Cultural work Sociology 050203 business & management Cultural policy |
| Zdroj: | Capital & Class. 44:595-615 |
| ISSN: | 2041-0980 0309-8168 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0309816819884699 |
| Popis: | Cultural work attracts much sociological interest and is often seen as typifying ‘precarity’. However, this scholarship rarely examines how ‘placemaking’ policy interventions affect the concrete conditions of cultural work. We study a major recent public/private policy intervention in the United Kingdom: Hull City of Culture 2017. This intervention embodied a multifaceted set of policy logics, combining the desire to boost arts participation, with a market-facing imperative to bolster the city’s ‘brand’. We examine what happened to the city’s ‘cultural projectariat’ (meaning those workers whose career depends on assembling sequences of discrete, time-limited funded cultural projects) during this event. The influx of funds created opportunities for good-quality work, but specific sources of insecurity persisted and in certain respects intensified: including the need for significant unpaid work and permanent competition for resources. City of Culture’s nature as a market-oriented ‘placemaking’ intervention limits its capacity to ameliorate the conditions of cultural work, which has to be conceived as a policy end in itself if conditions of the cultural projectariat are to be improved. |
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