Save the date: Guest Lecture with Angela McRobbie
We are delighted to announce a guest lecture with Angela McRobbie which will take place on 22 December 2022.
The Creative Industries 2000-2022: Paradigms and Programmes for the New Gendered World of Work
This lecture will provide a critical overview (from the optic of gender, race and class) of the rise of the creative economy, as a ‘cultural’ driver for neoliberal welfare and labour reform, with particular reference to young people. In the UK, winning key support from the New Labour government (under the leadership of Tony Blair) at the turn of the century we will reflect on the ways in which the creativity dispositif laid the foundations for the exponential growth of freelance work, the ‘gig economy’ and workplace precarity made palatable through the idea of self-realisation. Being an ‘entrepreneur of the self’ also entailed the individual having to assume further responsibility for their own social reproduction, and how this has played out more recently in terms of new forms of activism, trade unionisation and feminist campaigning will be addressed in the conclusion. We will also consider how the UK version of creative economy came to be adopted in a range of international settings. The lecture format will focus a) the early 2000s and the rise of the ‘talent -led economy’ b) the critical paradigms that have arisen subsequently to analyse sociologically these phenomena c) a gender perspective d) case study ‘fashion as creative economy’.
Registration for the event is free and will open soon.