Locating Cultural Work

The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Creativity

By: Susan Luckman

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Hardcover | 27 November 2012 | Edition Number 1

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The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies. Despite vast differences in these approaches, Guzzini and Neumann's study recognizes that ongoing changes in global governance go far beyond a proliferation of steering techniques and has a systemschanging potential. As politics becomes increasingly global in character and the number of agents attempting to govern grows, this indepth range of case studies suggests the emergence of a global polity.

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'A lovely book that takes seriously the efforts of cultural workers to live good lives, and that considers their struggles with compassion and intelligence. Its originality lies in bringing together histories and theories that have been only very rarely employed in the burgeoning research on cultural industries.' - David Hesmondhalgh, Director of Media Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds, UK

'Finally, a book that excavates creativity from its holed-up, hipster, inner-city scene! Locating Cultural Work situates creativity in diverse and sometimes challenging places beyond the metropolis. In this kaleidoscopic book Susan Luckman addresses bigger questions of the precarity of cultural work, the impacts of gentrification on rural places, the opportunities and constraints of tourism and digital connectivity, philosophical and political antecedents, and the embodied and everyday travails of being creative in the countryside. If creativity is to play a part in refashioning rural and regional places, then this book has the answers and the warnings.' - Chris Gibson, Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, Australia

'Who makes at the margins? In this erudite and elegantly-written book, Susan Luckman uncovers the diverse and distributed geographies of cultural work and explores thecomplex lives of those committed to the production of creative art, craft and culture. In challenging common assumptions about the Romantic legacy, the history of the handmade, and the ethical bankruptcy of modern work, Luckman brilliantly reveals the continuous and cyclical nature of cultural production, and deftly exposes the intangible, sensory and affective qualities of place that inspire today's cultural workers'. Mark Banks, Reader in Sociology, The Open University, UK

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Work & Labour Society & Culture Cultural Studies Arts & Entertainment Art Forms Social Groups Rural Communities Business & Management Industry & Industrial Studies

Sociology & Sport & Leisure Social & Cultural Aspects of Religious Groups Economics Labour Economics

List of Figures	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Space for Creativity	p. 1
Affective Cultural Work: New Psychogeographies of Creativity	p. 14
Precarious Labour Then and Now: The British Arts and Crafts Movement and the Ethics of Rural Cultural Work Re-visited	p. 48
Cultural Work, Stage of Life and Balanced Lives	p. 85
Tourism, Regional Economies and Cultural Workers	p. 123
Sustainability, the Handmade and Cultural Industries	p. 146
Conclusion: A 'Slow Creative Industries' Movement?	p. 167
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 180
Index	p. 193
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