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> Open panel
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> Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference
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> Istanbul 20-23 July 2006
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> The Subject of Cultural Work
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> 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?
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> Paper proposals of no more than 250 words to be submitted by Jan
> 31, 2006, to:
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> David Hesmondhalgh, The Open University, [log in to unmask]
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