Rethinking creative freelancers and structures of care in cultural policy and organisational practice: A case study of Dundee during the Covid-19 pandemic

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI:10.1177/13678779231210883

Lauren England

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Abstract

This article seeks to reposition freelance creative and cultural workers (CCWs) and conditions of creative work as the foundations of cultural policy making. Using a case study of Dundee, Scotland, in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the article draws on focus groups and interviews with creative freelancers, representatives of cultural organisations and members of a cultural strategy development group in Dundee. It presents how freelancers were not only missing from policy (national and local), their precarity was also exacerbated by cultural organisations in their response to pandemic-induced uncertainty. The potential for more caring modes of engagement with freelance CCWs are identified. Crucially, the article argues that this support work must also be resourced to be effective and sustainable. The article presents opportunities for rethinking the position of freelancers in cultural policy and sector leadership, and reflects on the capacity for academic research to support such work.

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重新思考文化政策和组织实践中的创造性自由职业者和护理结构:Covid-19大流行期间邓迪的案例研究

本文试图重新定位自由创意和文化工作者(ccw)和创造性工作的条件作为文化政策制定的基础。本文以苏格兰邓迪的案例研究为例，在2019冠状病毒病大流行之后，利用焦点小组和对创意自由职业者、文化组织代表和邓迪文化战略发展小组成员的采访。它展示了自由职业者如何不仅在政策(国家和地方)中失踪，而且文化组织在应对流行病引起的不确定性时，也加剧了他们的不稳定性。确定了与自由ccw接触的更多关怀模式的潜力。至关重要的是，这篇文章认为，这种支持工作也必须得到有效和可持续的资源。本文提出了重新思考自由职业者在文化政策和部门领导中的地位的机会，并反映了学术研究支持此类工作的能力。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.