Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI:10.1177/13678779231195644

Guillermo Quiña

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Abstract

Creative industries are often promoted as key for economic, social and cultural development, particularly in countries of the Global South. In Argentina, the impact of the pandemic nurtured cultural workers’ organization and collective action, which brought to public attention the precarious conditions of cultural labor, and brought into question the centrality of individual and private initiatives known as ‘culturepreneurship’ within culture production. This article discusses the issue through an approach to cultural labor in general, and theatre and live music in particular, based on interviews and focus groups with 23 cultural workers in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. We argue that cultural labor precarity presents a specific set of characteristics that are not only material but also related to its symbolic and subjective character, which public policy makers and cultural workers themselves need to consider in order to improve these conditions in the post-pandemic period.

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不稳定的景象:大流行病后阿根廷文化劳动未来的条件、动态和挑战

创意产业往往被视为经济、社会和文化发展的关键，尤其是在全球南方国家。在阿根廷，疫情的影响培育了文化工作者的组织和集体行动，这引起了公众对文化劳动不稳定条件的关注，并使人们对被称为“文化企业家”的个人和私人倡议在文化生产中的中心地位产生了质疑。本文通过对布宜诺斯艾利斯大都会区23名文化工作者的采访和焦点小组，从文化劳动的角度，特别是戏剧和现场音乐的角度，讨论了这个问题。我们认为，文化劳动的不稳定性呈现出一系列特定的特征，这些特征不仅是物质的，而且与其象征性和主观特征有关，公共政策制定者和文化工作者自己需要考虑这些特征，以便在后疫情时期改善这些条件。

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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.