The last two decades of research and policy discussion have illuminated important changes
in both the opportunities and challenges facing artists and artistic workers as they pursue …

Recent interest in 'creative'work practices has been brought about by organizational
restructuring and the emergence of the creative industries as an economic power. Drawing …

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the
success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling …

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 …

In this paper we interrogate the demand and practice of autonomy in social movements. We
begin by identifying three main conceptions of autonomy:(1) autonomous practices vis-à-vis …

In a pivotal section of Capital, volume 1, notes that, in order to understand the capitalist
production of value, we must descend into the 'hidden abode of production': the site of the …

'Value'seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin
how we understand our lives, from discussions about the economic contribution of different …

This book critically introduces two compelling contemporary schools of Marxian thought: the
New Reading of Marx of Michael Heinrich and Werner Bonefeld, and the postoperaismo of …

This article examines the articulation of the benefits associated with staging the European
Capital of Culture (ECoC) in Liverpool, England in 2008. It is argued that relevant policy …

A substantial amount of research has analyzed business benefits that derive from arts
sponsorship and philanthropy. However, very little has been investigated about the …