[ecrea] cfp: Moral Economies of Creative Labour

> Moral Economies of Creative Labour
>
> Organisers
> MIRC/ICS, Leeds
> CRESC/Sociology, The Open University
>
> Date: Thursday 7th-Friday 8th July 2011
> Venue: Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
>
> Call for Papers
>
> In analyses of the cultural, media and creative 
> industries, considerable attention has been paid 
> to the negative, unethical or amoral aspects of 
> the labour process  ­ such as the exploitation 
> of â??precariiousâ?? workers, the 
> self-exploitation that results from 
> internalizing mechanisms of control, or the 
> damaging aspects of inequality and individuation 
> at work. While it remains vital to theorise 
> these aspects, a number of scholars have sought 
> to offer contrasting accounts that point to the 
> diverse array of moral and ethical practices 
> evident in cultural/creative labour, with 
> workers appearing to routinely invest their work 
> with social and non-instrumental values, ethics 
> and politics ­ however ââ??commercialisedâ??, 
> â??networkedâ?? and â??immaterialâ?? their 
> workplaces may appear to be. Such scholars draw 
> their energies from accounts of the cultural or 
> moral aspects of economic life (Sayer), the 
> limits of market thinking in the cultural sphere 
> (Oâ??Neill, Keat), autonomist and post-Marxist 
> approaches (Lazzarato, Hardt and Negri) and 
> varied attempts to move beyond the ethical 
> impasse of post-structuralist critique. Yet 
> whether it is possible to identify any 
> substantively â??moralâ??, â??ethicalâ?? or 
> critical features of this sector remains 
> contentious. This conference therefore asks: 
> what are the moral or ethical dimensions of 
> creative work? What are the political outcomes 
> of efforts to infuse creative labour with 
> ethical intent or content? How might an ethical 
> politics of creative labour be theorized and 
> organized?  Or, given the propensity of capital 
> to absorb or exploit normative critique, should 
> the prospect of â??ethicalâ?? cultural work be 
> regarded as illusory and damaging?
>
> Speakers include: Russell Keat, Andrew Sayer, 
> David Hesmondhalgh, Helen Kennedy, Mark Banks, others TBC
>
> Papers are invited on the following (or similar) 
> topics: creativity, cultural work and ethics; 
> media work and ethics; ethics and aesthetics; 
> creative/cultural policy, politics and 
> organizing; ethics and exploitation; â??goodâ?? 
> and â??badâ?? work; ethics of caring; emotions 
> and affective creative labour; norms, practices 
> and virtues; the commodification of ethics; the limits of workplace ethics.
>
> ?       Please email abstracts (150 words max 
> for a 20 minute paper)  to Liz Pollard 
> (e.v.pollard /at/ leeds.ac.uk) by Thursday 31st March
> ?       Places are limited and successful 
> acceptance will be confirmeed by mid-April.
> ?       To register for the conference please also contact Liz Pollarrd.
> ?       Conference fee: £75 (waged) £30 
> (Postgraduates/unwaaged), includes lunch and refreshments.
> ?       See http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/ and 
> www.cresc.ac.uk for programmee updates and further details.

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