Hope labour and the psychic life of cultural work
Hope labour and the psychic life of cultural work
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DOI：
10.1177/0018726720940777
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发表时间：
2020-07-15
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5.7
通讯作者：
McKinlay, Alan
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作者：
Mackenzie, Ewan;McKinlay, Alan
如何理解新自由主义下文化工作者的精神生活？“希望劳动”是文化工作者的经验、实践和身份的一种决定性品质。希望劳动是指目前从事的无偿或补偿不足的劳动，通常是为了获得经验或体验，希望未来的工作可能随之而来。希望劳动是自然化的新自由主义话语，但不完全由他们决定。借鉴实证研究调查的“创意产业”在英格兰东北部，我们问如何希望劳动是有意义的，有价值的文化工作者定位为创业主体，尽管其合法化的权力不对称。我们通过解决文化工作如何通过新自由主义类别生活，展示了冲突的话语和关系，以自我参与创业主体性的宪法发展福柯的研究。我们通过说明文化工作者如何开始在希望、欲望、焦虑和不确定性的冲突配置中占据创业主体的位置，为理解希望和不稳定做出了新颖的贡献。
How do we understand the psychic life of cultural workers under neoliberalism? 'Hope labour' is a defining quality of a cultural worker's experience, practice and identity. Hope labour is unpaid or under-compensated labour undertaken in the present, usually for exposure or experience, with the hope that future work may follow. Hope labour is naturalised by neoliberal discourses but not fully determined by them. Drawing upon empirical research investigating the 'creative industries' in the North East of England, we ask how hope labour is made meaningful and worthwhile for cultural workers positioned as entrepreneurial subjects, despite its legitimisation of power asymmetries. We develop Foucauldian studies of governmentality by addressing how cultural work is lived through neoliberal categories, demonstrating the conflicting discourses and relations to self involved in the constitution of entrepreneurial subjectivity. We make a novel contribution to an understanding of hope and precarity by illustrating how cultural workers begin to occupy the site of the entrepreneurial subject amidst conflicting configurations of hope, desire, anxiety and uncertainty.