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

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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