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CANCELLED: Friday Lecture: Professor Angela McRobbie, Goldsmith University of London

“Settling Accounts with Creative Labour and Creative Industry Studies ...1998-2018”

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Friday 5 April 2019,  at 14:00 - 16:00

This lecture provides an analysis of the dispositifs at play in the inauguration of creative economy as it comes to prominence first in the UK during the early years of the New Labour government. First we will consider a 'middle-classification' effect by means of a cultural meritocracy, second we will look more closely at the 'artist as human capital' model for the pursuing of labour reform under cover of 'passionate work', third we will investigate the 'invitational' pathways of gender and ethnicity into creative labour and fourth we will consider counter-discourses to include a 'good job well done ' (Sennett), post-Fordist place making practices (Colomb) and in addition the recent critiques of cultural policy on access and participation of class and race O'Brien, Saha). The lecture concludes with a call to sectoral re-differentiation with close attention paid to historical and empirical factors for participation.

 

Angela McRobbie has worked on questions of creative industry dating back to her book of 1998 British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry, recently followed by Be Creative Making a Living in the New Culture industries 2015. Her recent AHRC funded empirical of fashion micro-enterprises in London Berlin and Milan will be published in 2021. Angela McRobbie is also author of work on feminist theory including The Aftermath of Feminism 2008 and Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Women, Gender and the End of Welfare forthcoming 2020. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy.