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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective

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Alacovska, Ana, Gill, Rosalind·2019·International Journal of Cultural Studies
DOI 10.1177/1367877918821231
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Creative labour studies focus almost exclusively on Euro-American metropolitan ‘creative hubs’ and hence the creative worker they theorize is typically white, middle-class, urban and overwhelmingly male. This article outlines the contours of a de-Westernizing project in creative labour studies while introducing a special journal issue that examines the lived dynamics of creative work outside the West. The article advocates an ‘ex-centric perspective’ on creative work. An ex-centric perspective does not merely aim at multiplying non-West empirical case studies. Rather, it aims at destabilizing, decentring and provincializing the taken-for-grantedness of some entrenched notions in creative labour studies such as informality and precarity. An ex-centric perspective, we contend, offers a potential challenge to many of the claims about creative work that have taken on the status of general truths and universal principles in spite of them being generated from limited empirical evidence gleaned from research sites situated almost exclusively in the creative hubs of Euro-America.

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Authors
Alacovska, A., & Gill, R.
Affiliations
  • Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • City, University of London (GB)
ORCID
Gill, Rosalind
Venue
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2019-01-23
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
195-212
ISSN
  • 1367-8779 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-356X
DOI
10.1177/1367877918821231
OpenAlex
W2912981854
Cited by
101
References
107
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 3
FWCI
30.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • International Journal of Cultural Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Goldsmiths (University of London) (acceptedVersion)
  • City Research Online (City University London) (acceptedVersion)
  • CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Keywords
creative labour, de-Westernization, precarity, creative hubs, decolonial research, creative workers

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