Collaborating, Competing, Co-working, Coalescing: Artists, Freelancers and Social Entrepreneurs as the ‘New Subjects’ of the Creative Economy
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter is concerned with offering an understanding of the main traits that characterise the subjectivity of three prominent social actors in the creative economy – freelancers, social entrepreneurs and artists - and assess their significance in a context that shifts towards collaboration and sharing as modes of production. Building on individual ethnographic fieldwork conducted in various contexts between 2011-2014, we offer an ex-post reflection that draws from each author’s empirical research to provide a better understanding of how these subjects - each with its own peculiar features – represent an accurate illustration of the process of 're-embeddedness' of forms of the economic in the social that seems to characterise the current socio-economic conjuncture of the creative industries.
DOI: 10.16997/book4.b
Institutions: King's College London, University of Milan
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2728470415