Open panel
Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference
Istanbul 20-23 July 2006
The Subject of Cultural Work
Workers across a range of industries are encouraged and exhorted to be creative, in a supposedly win-win situation where businesses benefit from innovation and workers achieve self-realisation. Some would see symbol making as a particularly hopeful site for such innovation and self-realisation. But to what extent is this really the case? What does it mean to be a creative subject in a creative industry? How are changes in policy, financing, organisation and social subjectivity affecting the ways in which cultural workers experience their lives? What kinds of creative persons are being shaped in the era of the creative industries? What theoretical sources might be drawn upon to understand these issues and what kinds of empirical work would allow us to investigate these questions most fruitfully?
Paper proposals of no more than 250 words to be submitted by Jan 31, 2006, to:
David Hesmondhalgh, The Open University, [log in to unmask]
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