The Politics of Cultural Work

by Banks, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780230019218
• ISBN10: 0230019218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

What is 'cultural work'? How are we to understand the 'art-commerce relation'? The Politics of Cultural Work answers these questions through a wide-ranging study of labour in the cultural industries. It critically evaluates how various sociological traditions - including critical theory, governmentality and liberal-democratic approaches - have sought to theorize the creative cultural worker, in art, music, media and design-based occupations. It evaluates whether the cultural worker should be seen as a creative, autonomous subject - or as a mere victim of the 'culture industry'

Author Biography

MARK BANKS is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introducing Cultural Work	p. 1
'Culture Industry' and Cultural Work	p. 16
Governmentality and Cultural Work	p. 41
The Construction of Creativity	p. 69
Choice, Reflexivity and 'Alternative' Cultural Work	p. 94
Space, Place and Cultural Work	p. 125
Cultural Work and Moral Futures	p. 156
Appendix	p. 188
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 221
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