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[ecrea] New Book: 'Cultural Work and Higher Education

Tue Oct 01 19:13:30 GMT 2013



Some of you may be interested in a book recently edited by myself and Dan Ashton (Bath Spa University) which features many key scholars in the field. ‘Cultural Work and Higher Education’ (ToC below) examines the intersections between higher education policy and practice, and cultural and creative labour. It reflects on and contributes to the current debates on cultural labour relating to instability, precariousness, and exclusion examining the ways in which academics and students working within the fields of art, design and media studies engage with these themes in their own occupational and educational cultures.

For more information and to purchase a copy visit: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=580204

Dr Caitriona Noonan
Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communications
University of South Wales
Adam Street, Cardiff
Wales. CF24 2FN
Email: (caitriona.noonan /at/ southwales.ac.uk)
Twitter: @CaitrionaNoonan


TABLE of CONTENTS

Introduction: Cultural Work and Higher Education; Daniel Ashton and Caitriona Noonan

1. Making Workers: Higher Education and the Cultural Industries Workplace; Kate Oakley

2. Making Your Way: Empirical Evidence from a Survey of 3,500 Graduates; Emma Pollard

3. Precariously Mobile: Tensions Between the Local and the Global in Higher Education Approaches to Cultural Work; Susan Luckman

4. No Longer Just Making the Tea: Media Work-Placements and Work-Based Learning in Higher Education; Richard Berger, Jon Wardle, and Marketa Zezulkova

5. Media Enterprise in Higher Education: A Laboratory for Learning; Annette Naudin

6. Smashing Childlike Wonder? The Early Journey into Higher Education; Caitriona Noonan

7. Negotiating a Contemporary Creative Identity; Stephanie Taylor and Karen Littleton

8. Industry Professionals in Higher Education: Values, Identities and Cultural Work; Daniel Ashton

9. Creative Networks and Social Capital; David Lee

10. The Cultural Industries in a Critical Multicultural Pedagogy; Anamik Saha

11. 'What do you need to make it as a woman in this industry? Balls!': Work Placements, Gender and the Cultural Industries; Kim Allen

Afterword: Further and Future Directions for Cultural Work and Higher Education; Daniel Ashton and Caitriona Noonan


SOME KIND ENDORSEMENTS

"This is a valuable and timely book that addresses a clear gap in an expanding scholarly field. It makes a strong contribution to the growing literature, exploring what is at stake in the relationship between higher education and the cultural industries, interrogating some of the current challenges and problematic aspects of creative work." - Paul Long, Reader in Media and Cultural History, Birmingham City University, UK

"Ashton and Noonan have assembled an impressive array of perspectives that deftly explore the relationships between higher education and the cultural industries workplace. As universities further adapt to market pressures, this book reiterates what remains a fundamentally important question - what is an education in arts and culture really for?" - Mark Banks, Reader in Sociology, The Open University, UK

"Universities are increasingly pushed by governments to produce compliant working subjects, and this is increasingly true in the arts and creative industries. This excellent book provides hugely valuable critical perspectives on the implications for cultural workers, for universities, and for us all." - David Hesmondhalgh, Head of the Institute of Communications Studies and Professor of Media and Music Industries, University of Leeds, UK

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