scholarly journals Inequality talk: How discourses by senior men reinforce exclusions from creative occupations

2019 ◽  
pp. 136754941988602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orian Brook ◽  
Dave O’Brien ◽  
Mark Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
Class Origin ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

Cultural Studies has drawn attention to the way that cultural and creative industries are marked by significant inequalities. This article explores how these inequalities are maintained, through fieldwork with senior men making decisions in cultural and creative industries. Drawing on 32 interviews with senior men across a range of cultural and creative industry occupations, conducted as part of a larger (N = 237) project, the analysis shows that misrecognition and outright rejection of inequalities are now not the norm. Rather, ‘inequality talk’ and the recognition of structural barriers for marginalised groups is a dominant discourse. However, individual careers are still explained by gentlemanly tropes and the idea of luck, rather than by reference to structural inequalities. The distance between the discourse of career luck and ‘inequality talk’ helps to explain the persistence of exclusions from the workforce for those who are not white, middle class origin, men. This has important implications for inequalities in cultural production and consumption, and in turn for wider social inequality.

scholarly journals Inequality talk: How discourses by senior men reinforce exclusions from creative occupations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orian Brook ◽  
Dave O'Brien ◽  
Mark Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
British Society ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Outright Rejection

Cultural production is crucial in shaping society. Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the way that the occupations involved with cultural production, brought together under the banner of cultural and creative industries (CCIs), do not reflect the demographics of British society. In particular, research has demonstrated significant exclusions based on gender (e.g. Conor et al 2015), race and ethnicity (e.g. Saha 2018, Nwonka and Malik 2018), and class (e.g. Hesmondhalgh 2018). This paper seeks to understand how these inequalities are maintained by looking at a comparatively under-researched group: senior men in positions of power making decisions in CCIs. The paper presents data from 32 interviews with senior men across a range of CCI occupations, conducted as part of a larger set (N=237) of interviews on inequality and careers in CCIs. The analysis shows that misrecognition and outright rejection of inequalities is now unusual; that ‘inequality talk’ and the recognition of structural barriers for marginalised groups is a dominant mode for senior CCI men; that gentlemanly tropes and the idea of luck, rather than structural advantages, were used by senior men to explain their own success and separate and distance them as individuals from the inequalities they described; and that men felt they had limited capacity to effect genuine change in the context of a set of occupations they understood as fairer than other professions. Overall, the analysis shows how ‘inequality talk’ and the awareness of structural issues differs significantly from senior CCI men’s own accounts of their career success. This difference, and the distance between the discourse of career luck and ‘inequality talk’ helps to explain the persistence of exclusions from the workforce for those who are not white, middle class origin, men. This has important implications for inequality in other professions and areas of social life.

scholarly journals Genres and inequality in the creative industries

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110060
Author(s):  
Ana Alacovska ◽  
Dave O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Specific Production ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries ◽  
Fitness To Work

Genres organize and facilitate cultural, creative and media production and consumption but are rarely central categories in extant research on creative industries. With this editorial article, we aim to reassert, reassess and revisit the salience of genres for understanding inequalities in the cultural and creative industries. We argue that genres, as classificatory devices, structure and order a gendered and racialized division of labour and occupational practice. Genres sanction what is and what is not aesthetically and ethically appropriate to do and think within specific textual categories and, hence also, within genre-specific production cultures. Genres draw boundaries, shaping and normalizing the gendered and racialized professional values and norms that underpin unequal patterns of access, distinction and career advancement within creative occupations. Cultural producers, in turn, are compelled to forge professional genre identities at the same time as constantly having to negotiate their gender and racial fitness to work and prosper in specific categories of cultural production. The contributions to this special issue elucidate, through a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, the links between genres and persisting inequalities across the book, screen and music industries.

Study on Undergraduate Graduation Design System Reforms in Manufacturing Engineering

2014 ◽  
Vol 484-485 ◽  
pp. 268-271
Author(s):  
Jian Jun Xia ◽  
Fei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Design System ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

Today, with the economic globalization, the cultural and creative industries boomingly became one of the promising industries with great growing potential recognized internationally in twenty-first Century, can achieve enormous economic benefits and social benefits. Although there are many scholars no matter who are from domestic and abroad undertake discussing from different point of view, there are still many problems and shortcomings, especially in the areas around Beijing and Tianjin, Hubei Province cultural and creative industry also cannot ignore the problems to be solved urgently.

scholarly journals Research on the Development Path of Zigong Salt Culture and Creative Industry in the Era of Digital New Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingjie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Virtual Technology ◽  
Development Path ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

Salt culture is the main component of traditional culture in Zigong, Sichuan.With centuries of history, it has accumulated rich cultural connotations. At present, Zigong salt culture, as a precious traditional cultural wealth, has taken cultural and creative industries as a new carrier of communication in the rapid development of digital new media technology, giving full play to the resource advantages of its traditional culture. This article focuses on the study of the development path of Zigong salt cultural and creative industry in the new digital media era. Combining digital new media technology with cultural and creative industries, Zigong salt culture actively uses virtual technology to realize the innovative development of cultural and creative industries, promote the cultivation of cultural and creative brands based on digital new media technology. This article aims to give relevant strategies with reference value, so as to make corresponding contributions to the development path of Zigong salt culture in the future.

scholarly journals Promoting cultural production in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (47) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Mirjana Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Economic Gain ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

The paper presents the empirical study which aims to describe problems encountered by actors in the cultural and creative industries during the realization of ideas and activities in a modern digital environment. The results pointed out a discrepancy in the use of modern technology when it comes to the creation, availability and use of products of culture and creativity, and the ways they are communicated and promoted. Highlighting the problems that this sector faces, besides the knowledge of economic gain and overflows to other areas of the economy and society, should stimulate the interest of the competent institutions and decision-makers in finding more productive support programs for Serbian cultural and creative production in the future.

scholarly journals Cultural and creative industries in modern languages

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 216-230
Author(s):  
Haili Ma
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Content Relevance ◽  
Market Competitiveness ◽  
Programme Development ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

This paper explores Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI) teaching and curriculum development across disciplines, based on a case study of a newly established Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI) programme at the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, UK. It illustrates how different academic values and goals influence styles of teaching and curriculum development, and it considers how this drives disciplinary evolution. As CCI increasingly attracts international students, in particular from China’s middle-class market, this paper questions the direct ‘import’ of western CCI for Chinese students, in terms of both content relevance and programme development sustainability. This paper suggests that curriculum evolution should be viewed as key for UK higher education to retain market competitiveness, especially a pending ‘Brexit’.

scholarly journals TYPOLOGY OF MODERN THEORETICAL CONCEPTS OF CULTURAL ECONOMY

2018 ◽  
pp. 30-32
Author(s):  
I. I. Parkhomenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Production And Consumption

The article proposes theoretical concepts typology of the modern cultural economy, which proves the existence of economic relations in the field of culture according to the Western European scientific tradition of XX-XXI centuries: 1) cultural and philosophical (T.W.Adorno, J. Baudrillard, P.Bourdieu, M.Horkheimer, S.Lash, C.Lury, J.Urry); 2) cultural industries approach (R.Williams, B.Miege, N.Garhnam, P.L.Sacco); 3) economic and managerial (W.J.Baumol, W.G.Bowen, M.Blaug, V.A.Ginsburg, D.Hesmondhalgh, A.Klamer, B.Miege, A.J.Scott, D.Throsby, B.S.Frey). According to these modern theoretical concepts, culture is the sphere of production and consumption of goods and services; it is functioning as a resource for economic, social and cultural development. This understanding of culture is the basis of the current policy of cultural and creative industries in the European Union and the United Kingdom. Cultural production is an interdisciplinary object of study, since the cultural good has its own peculiarity: its cultural value determines economic value. The article analyzes production in the field of culture and, at first, determines economy of culture as a scientific approach for understanding the functioning of the modern society in the categories of production and consumption; secondly, economics of culture is a scientific discipline in the field of economics. Theoretical and methodological bases were interdisciplinary scientific approaches to the understanding of culture as a sphere of production and consumption. For that reason were organized and systematized approaches to the understanding of culture as an economic reality in scientific discourse: 1) critical theory of T.W.Adorno, W.Benjamin and M.Horkheimer and the concept of "cultural industry"; 2) the interaction of cultural and power institutions in the processes of democratization of society and industrialization of culture (R.Williams, N.Garhnam, P.L.Sacco); 3) culture as a set of cultural industries, which form cultural capital (P.Bourdieu, D.Hesmondhalgh, B.Miege, D.Throsby); 4) the functioning of modern society as global culture industry in theory of S.Lash and C.Lury; 5) cultural economics theory (W.J.Baumol, W.G.Bowen, M.Blaug, V.A.Ginsburg, A.J.Scott, D.Throsby, B.S.Frey).

scholarly journals Institutional Field of National Development of Culture and Arts in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Komar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
National Development ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Field ◽  
Government Management ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

The purpose of the article is to give a review of the current environment of management and the development of culture and arts in the system of cultural and creative industries in Ukraine. The methodology of research is the application of the descriptive method and definitive analysis, functional analysis, formal characterization in the process of research regarding the national field of management and development of culture and arts segment in Ukraine. The scientific novelty is the analysis of the institutional field of national development of culture and arts in Ukraine. The scientific novelty is an analysis of the institutional field of development of national culture and art in the aspects of public administration, institutions of higher education (HEI) in the indicated areas, and government mass media channels. Conclusions: Effective organization of national management of institutional field development of national forms of cultural and art interaction – that is the Ukrainian cultural need in the process of its civilizational development. The main aspects of development and support of culture and arts from the government institutions side, in our opinion, are coordination of means of the government management system in the cultural and arts industry, institutions of higher education in culture and arts industries, and mass media broadcasting channels, which are owned by the government. National artistic, cultural-and-artistic, artistic-and-technological, scientific, educational, cultural and intellectual-and-creative capable part of a human capital asset (involved in the systems of the national arts and creative production, including government management organizations in the field of cultural and creative industries) must support the organization of national arts and cultural platforms of interaction based on communicative cooperation of groups of arts and cultural production, as well as comprehensive rebroadcasting of the best-produced products by unions of arts and cultural production by informative, mass media, arts, educational governmental means (tangible and intangible). The country should unite the efforts of specialists in this sector in the field of institutional communication of cultural-and-arts interaction, should support the formation of bases for the practical production of the national arts and cultural production of all branches of the sector of cultural and creative industries of Ukraine.

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