“Know Where to Fish”: Class and Gender Precarity and Project-based Networks in Creative and Cultural Industries

Valeria  Pulignano; Deborah Dean; Markieta Domecka; Lander Vermeerbergen

“Know Where to Fish”: Class and Gender Precarity and Project-based Networks in Creative and Cultural Industries

Valeria Pulignano, Deborah Dean, Markieta Domecka, Lander Vermeerbergen

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Abstract

This chapter considers creative industry networks as mediating precarious outcomes for aspirant workers through informal, individualised cultural processes. In particular, we contend that understanding how and why networks organise project-based transactions can be achieved through a synthesis of material and non-material lenses. First, we illustrate that the project work dynamics accounting for how creative capacity is commodified in the marketplace involve the industrial logic of risk minimisation and the national regulatory contexts in which they are embedded. Second, in investigating how these dynamics affect project workers, we show the homophilous processes that generate inclusion and exclusion, through classed, gendered ‘sorting.’ In so doing, we can identify the conditions under which certain outcomes occur and contribute to organisation studies’ theorising about project work, and specifically its facilitation of a precarity which is class-based and gendered. We ground our argument within an empirical comparative cross-national study of precarious jobs within CCIs, and use a narrative ‘storytelling’ approach as a heuristic tool for the analysis of precarity which makes it possible to uncover broader tendencies in the rearticulation of class experiences in relation to race and gender.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Re-imagining Class
Subtitle of host publication	Intersectional perspectives on class identity and precarity in contemporary culture
Place of Publication	Leuven
Publisher	Leuven University Press
Chapter	2.3
Pages	119-146
Number of pages	27
Publication status	Published - 24 May 2024

Keywords

class, precarity, networks, narratives,

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“Know Where to Fish”: Class and Gender Precarity and Project-based Networks in Creative and Cultural Industries. / Pulignano, Valeria ; Dean, Deborah; Domecka, Markieta et al.
Re-imagining Class: Intersectional perspectives on class identity and precarity in contemporary culture. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024. p. 119-146.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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