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'Keep hoping, keep going': Towards a hopeful sociology of creative work.
- Source :
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Sociological Review . Sep2019, Vol. 67 Issue 5, p1118-1136. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This article explores the relationship between future-oriented temporality and precarity in creative work. Existing sociological studies implicitly assume an unproblematic causal link between creative workers' future-orientation and their precarity, subjugation and exploitation. This article problematizes this link and offers a more nuanced reassessment of creative work's futurity by arguing for the analytical potential of the notion of hope in gaining a better understanding of creative workers' hopeful – affective, practical and moral – responses to conditions of protracted precarity. Building on theories of hope, the article conceptualizes hope both as an existential affective stance and an active moral practice oriented towards the present – an orientation that enables workers to keep going in spite of economic hardship and job uncertainty. From 'an atypical case' study of creative work in South-East Europe, hope emerges empirically as the central quotidian practice of coping with precarity. Three practices of hope are discussed: (1) hope as therapeutic practice; (2) hope as informal labour practice; and (3) hope as socially engaged arts practice. In so doing, the article explores the possibilities of practising 'a hopeful sociology' of creative work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIOLOGY
*CULTURAL industries
*LABOR market
*SOCIOLOGISTS
*INDUSTRIAL relations
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380261
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137891942
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118779014