Living up to a bohemian work ethic. Balancing autonomy and risk in the symbolic economy of the performing arts

IF 2 2区 社会学 0 LITERATURE
Annelies Van Assche, Rudi Laermans
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Abstract

Empirical studies generally report that aspiring a career in the performing arts is risky business. Within the contemporary European context of neoliberal capitalism, the particular workforce is inclined to occupy a precarious socio-economic position. We aim to contribute to this body of research by discussing how risk and precarity in the artworld are macro- and meso-governed by existing structures and micro-managed by agents. Our data stem from empirical research conducted among members of the contemporary dance population in Brussels and Berlin. We focus for the most part on qualitative findings from longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork to discuss how the informants live up to a bohemian work ethic that is framed by a more general symbolic economy. In this paper, we argue that within the longstanding sociological agency-structure debate, the outlined bohemian work ethic ties in with the concept of an autonomous heteronomy. Furthermore, despite the relatively different socio-economic macro structures in both locales, we come to conclude that the very similar symbolic economy seems to have a much greater impact on artistic and economic risk taking than the specific social security policy and welfare approaches.

不辜负波西米亚人的职业道德。在表演艺术的象征经济中平衡自主性和风险
实证研究普遍表明,立志从事表演艺术是一件有风险的事情。在当代欧洲新自由主义资本主义的背景下,特定的劳动力倾向于占据不稳定的社会经济地位。我们的目标是通过讨论艺术界的风险和不稳定性如何在宏观和中观上受到现有结构的控制,以及在微观上受到代理人的管理,从而为这一研究体系做出贡献。我们的数据来自于对布鲁塞尔和柏林现代舞人群进行的实证研究。我们主要关注纵向民族志田野调查的定性发现,以讨论举报人如何实现由更普遍的象征经济框架下的波西米亚职业道德。在本文中,我们认为,在长期的社会学机构结构辩论中,概述的波西米亚职业伦理与自主他律的概念联系在一起。此外,尽管两个地区的社会经济宏观结构相对不同,但我们得出的结论是,非常相似的象征性经济似乎比具体的社会保障政策和福利方法对艺术和经济风险承担的影响要大得多。
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Poetics
Poetics Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - sociology, psychology, media and communication studies, and economics - within which promising lines of research on culture, media and the arts have been developed.
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