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From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie
No full textIn this interview, Angela McRobbie reflects on her intellectual and professional trajectory from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, amid her associations with Stuart Hall and the emerging cultural economy agenda at the Open University. The interview expands on, and incorporates elements from, her contribution to a 2020 workshop marking two decades since Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke convened a ‘Workshop on Cultural Economy’ at the OU in Milton Keynes. The interview forms part of a special issue, titled What Was Cultural Economy
Angela McRobbie, be creative [Book Review]
Full text linkBook Review of - Be Creative, Angela McRobbie, Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2016. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780745661957, £16.99[pbk
Overview on a grounded précarité: Interview with Angela McRobbie
Full text linkIn this interview with Angela McRobbie, the author, who is a specialist in creative labor, traces the path which led her to contribute introduce into cultural studies the elaborations – notably from France and Italy – of the notion of precariousness. This scientific and epistemological trajectory shows the importance of the international circulation of the notion of precariousness, but also the limits of notions that claim to be inclusive and may actually be situated. The author thus points to the trend, particularly in operaist approaches, of underestimating both the prominence and the lifespan of precariousness in the marginalized sectors of the labor market occupied for a long time by female and male migrants in many countries. She points to the importance of the feminist tradition and of postcolonial studies to question the multifaceted extent of precariousness beyond the standard representation of the white male worker.Dans cet entretien avec Angela McRobbie, l’auteure, spécialiste du creative labour, retrace le parcours qui l’a amenée à nourrir les cultural studies des élaborations – françaises et italiennes notamment – de la notion de précarité. Cette trajectoire scientifique et épistémologique montre l’importance de la circulation internationale de la notion de précarité mais aussi les limites de notions qui se prétendent inclusives et peuvent se révéler en réalité situées. L’auteure pointe ainsi la tendance, notamment dans les approches opéraïstes, à minorer l’importance et l’ancienneté de la précarité dans les secteurs marginalisés du marché du travail qu’occupent de longue date, dans de nombreux pays, les femmes et les personnes migrantes. Elle pointe l’importance de la tradition féministe et des postcolonial studies pour interroger l’étendue multiforme de la précarité au-delà de la représentation par défaut du travailleur blanc et masculin
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie
Full text linkIn this interview, Angela McRobbie reflects on her intellectual and professional trajectory from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, amid her associations with Stuart Hall and the emerging cultural economy agenda at the Open University. The interview expands on, and incorporates elements from, her contribution to a 2020 workshop marking two decades since Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke convened a ‘Workshop on Cultural Economy’ at the OU in Milton Keynes. The interview forms part of a special issue, titled What Was Cultural Economy
Book Review: be creative: making a living in the new culture industries by Angela McRobbie
No full textIn Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries, Angela McRobbie addresses how the encouragement to foster one’s ‘creativity’ as a set of capacities or skills necessary for professional success is entwined with the rise in freelance, temporary and low-paid labour. Drawing upon McRobbie’s extensive contributions to the field of cultural and creative industries, this book underscores the contemporary link between creative work and precarity, but also offers hope for future change, writes Paz Concha
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Book Review: The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change by Angela McRobbie
Full text linkAngela McRobbie explores the cultural forces that have negated feminism as a social movement by examining the post-feminist cultural environment in, The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. This book is not an empirical work, but rather a survey of changes in popular culture. McRobbie analyzes the ways in which popular culture is used to dismantle feminist gains. She is particularly interested in the future of feminism outside of academic institutions. This review highlights the major arguments in the text and concludes with a discussion of the usefulness of this book in academic courses and further study
Entrevista a Angela McRobbie: los estudios culturales y el imperativo de entender y explicar los cambios sociales
Full text linkEntrevista a Angela McRobbie, socióloga y directora del Departamento de Comunicación en Goldsmiths College, Universidad de Londres. Ha publicado numerosos ensayos en revistas internacionales sobre problemáticas vinculadas con la juventud, los estilos musicales y los consumos culturales, así como ha indagado en los cambios sociales y políticos ocurridos desde los tiempos del thatcherismo.Entrevista y traducción a cargo de Claudia LaudanoFacultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
How to be a woman. Models of masochism and sacrifice in young adult fiction
No full textBuffy, Bella, Veronica, Katniss, Clary, Tris and Saba : For two decades post-feminist heroines have faced life-threatening trials as part of their progress to womanhood. In this chapter I consider how young adult popular fictions operate as forms of pedagogy for young women by offering them particular models of maturity and womanhood. I explore the recurrence and reformulation of a persistent pattern of behaviour in which heroines engage in risky and/or masochistic behaviours for which they are emotionally rewarded.. These recurrences function as a form of vicarious experiential learning in which readers and viewers learn that emotional gratification and adult status are conferred through self-harm and self-sacrifice. Popular culture is not a monolithic form and young adult fictions are no exception. An analysis of fictional examples of this behaviour pattern challenges the idea that heroines today are empowered agents as a result of the legacy of feminism. At the same time, the analysis belies any notion that fictions are universally hegemonic and oppressive – fictions can and do disrupt and interrogate this pattern of emotional masochism. Scholars of public pedagogy have explored the complexities, contradictions and subtleties of the pedagogical process. Sandlin O’Malley and Burdick (2011) in their review of public pedagogy literature acknowledge that some scholarship has demonstrated how “the teaching and learning inherent within daily life can be both oppressive and resistant” (p. 144). Jubas and Knutson (2012) also see public pedagogy as an arena where contradictions and tensions are in play. They argue that we can see “New examples of dialectic or tensions … between the authority of the producer and the consumer; between traditional structures which ground identities and help people make sense of cultural texts, and personal agency which frees people to choose and invent identities and meanings” (p. 86). This analysis aims to contribute to understandings of the complexities of public pedagogy by showing how fictions aimed primarily at young women both resist and accommodate patriarchy
Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare: A response to Angela McRobbie
No full textAcross popular media and political discourse, subjects are increasingly addressed through the language of resilience – called upon to be positive, to show ‘grit, and to ‘bounceback’ from adversity. In her latest book, Feminism and The Politics of Resilience: Essays on Gender, Media and the End of Welfare (2020), Angela McRobbie offers an incisive analysis of the gendered address that this call to resilience takes; teasing out its complex relation to the logics of post-feminism and locating its traction against a backdrop of neoliberal austerity which has disproportionately punished women – and poor, black and brown women especially. In this short piece, I reflect upon the book’s contributions and consider whether the language of resilience, rather than be abandoned, might be reclaimed and repoliticised as part of radical feminist re-imaginings of welfar
Beyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slinging: Jo Littler interviews Angela McRobbie
Full text linkIn this wide-ranging interview, which took place in spring 2021, Angela McRobbie talks about her work in relation to social politics, the contemporary conjuncture, cultural studies, decolonisation and feminism. Beginning with a discussion on her experience of Covid, it contextualises these reflections through a discussion of anti-welfarism and the scapegoating of dependency, drawing from her new book Feminism and the Politics of Resilience. It moves on to discuss different forms and experiences of feminism: including the neoliberal Anglo-German academic context; the legacies of queer theory and radical feminism; the ‘mud-slinging’ of social media which ‘does not allow us the time and space to rehearse what is really going on’; the need to engage with social policy alongside cultural theory; and the ongoing intersectional work of rewriting the curriculum
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