[ecrea] The Future of Cultural Work: Call for papers

>                            The Future of Cultural Work
>
> Organisers: Mark Banks and Stephanie Taylor (CRESC, Open University)
> Rosalind Gill and Andy Pratt
> (Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries Research,
> King?s College, London)
>
> Date: Monday 7 June 2010
> Venue: Open University London Regional Centre, Camden.
>
> Call for Papers
>
>
> As ?creativity? and ?creative work? have become 
> buzzwords for progress, so the cultural and 
> creative industries have become an instrumental 
> feature of national economic and cultural 
> policies. Most recently, cultural, artistic and 
> creative labour has been identified as leading 
> the transition to a more fluid, affective and 
> converged ?innovation? economy, where cultural 
> work is valued more for its ability to diffuse 
> ideas and ?creative energies? than for its 
> intrinsic value, or for its (potentially) 
> socially transformative or redemptive potential. 
> Firms, national governments, promoters of 
> ?creative cities? and development agencies alike 
> have offered a plethora of interventions 
> designed to stimulate growth through organizing 
> and managing creative and cultural work (see 
> ?Creative Britain? for example). Such a process 
> has rested on the assumption of a frictionless 
> and mutually beneficial relationship between 
> capital and labour, and culture and economics; 
> where distinctive forms of artistic and cultural 
> production and economic and governmental 
> priorities appear to co-prosper in harmonious 
> union. However, while the specific qualities of 
> cultural and creative work are now assumed to be 
> progressive and beneficial to both capital and 
> labour, recent events cast doubt on the status 
> of creativity as (in Andrew Ross?s words) ?the 
> oil of the 21st century?. The instrumental 
> gearing of culture to innovation policy, the 
> consolidation of ?free?, ?co-creative?  - but 
> precarious, individualized and 
> poorly-remunerated - work in media, cultural and 
> arts organizations, a deep-rooted global 
> recession that has eviscerated opportunities for 
> cultural labour, and in the UK a general 
> election that may alter fundamentally the 
> creative industries script, has markedly 
> transformed this discursive and material field. 
> Here, the benign union of culture and economics, 
> the prospects for rewarding and meaningful 
> cultural industry employment, and the extent to 
> which creative/cultural work could or should 
> meet the demands of economic restructuring and 
> governments, come once again under scrutiny. 
> This conference therefore asks: What is the 
> status of creativity and creative work in this 
> new decade? What is the current and future 
> relationship between the creative and cultural 
> industries and the discursive and material practices of culture and economy?
>
> Keynote speakers: David Hesmondhalgh, Georgina 
> Born, Mark Deuze, Melissa Gregg (final list TBC)
>
> Papers are invited on the following (or similar) 
> topics: the conditions of creative/cultural 
> workers; freelancing, ?free? and co-creative 
> labour, cultural work and critical socio-spatial 
> politics; work, exclusion and marginality; the 
> role of creative and cultural work in economic 
> and cultural policy; cultural work and 'cultural 
> diplomacy'; impacts of technology and 
> ?convergence?, the creative nation post-recession/post-election.
>
>
> Please email abstracts (150 words max for a 20 
> minute paper) to 
> <(m.o.banks /at/ open.ac.htm)>(m.o.banks /at/ open.ac.uk) by 
> Friday April 9th. Places are limited and 
> successful acceptance will be confirmed in 
> mid-April. To register for the conference please 
> contact Karen Ho 
> <(k.d.ho /at/ open.ac.htm)>(k.d.ho /at/ open.ac.uk). 
> Conference fee: £70 (waged) £25 
> (Postgraduates/unwaged), includes lunch and 
> refreshments. See www.cresc.ac.uk 
> <http://www.cresc.ac.uk/>  for programme updates and further details.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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