Format:
1 Online-Ressource (145 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781803823072
Series Statement:
Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication Series
Content:
Contributing to debates within cultural studies, sociology and the political economy of communication about working lives in the cultural and creative industries, Vachet answers to-date unexplored questions around the psychosocial impact of precariousness and other problematic features of work in the cultural industries
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Cover -- FANTASY, NEOLIBERALISM AND PRECARIOUSNESS -- DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND SOCIETY: POLITICS, ECONOMY AND CULTURE IN NETWORK COMMUNICATION -- FANTASY, NEOLIBERALISM AND PRECARIOUSNESS: Coping Strategies in the Cultural Industries -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Dedication -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Neoliberalism -- 1.1.1 'To Change the Soul': The Political Goal of Neoliberalism -- 1.2 Precariousness, Neoliberalism and the Lack of Political Mobilisation -- 1.2.1 What Does Precariousness Mean? -- 1.2.2 Precariousness and Political Mobilisation -- 1.2.3 Current Understanding of the Interplay between Subjectivity, Neoliberalism and Precariousness in the Cultural and Cre ... -- 1.3 Class and Gender Inequalities in Cultural Work -- 1.3.1 Social Class Inequalities -- 1.3.2 Cultural Work and Gender Inequalities -- 1.4 Music Work, Individualisation and Precariousness in the CCIs -- 1.5 Theoretical Framework for Well-Being and Flourishing -- 1.6 The Field of the Psychosocial: Literature, Key Terms, Criticism and the Approach Taken in This Book -- 1.6.1 Subjectivity: A Key Term in the Psychosocial -- 1.6.2 Criticisms and Risks Related to the Influence of Psychoanalysis in Psychosocial Studies -- 1.6.3 Difference between 'Traditional' Psychosocial Studies and the Approach Taken in This Book -- 1.7 Inquiry and Method -- 1.8 Outline of the Work -- 2. Consequences of Individualisation: Pathologies of Freedom -- 2.1 Outline of the Chapter -- 2.2 The Concept of Individualisation: From Origins to Current Understandings -- 2.3 Theories of Individualisation and Social Class -- 2.4 Self-Realisation through (Creative) Work -- 2.5 'Freedom from Not Freedom to': Pathologies of Individualisation as Consequences of Individualisation -- 2.5.1 Recognition -- 2.5.2 Narcissism -- 2.5.3 Anxiety -- 2.6 A Wide Range of Literature with a Common Ground
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2.7 The Use of a Normative and Critical Approach -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3. Coping Strategies and Defence Mechanisms -- 3.1 Outline of the Chapter -- 3.2 Hopes and Projection into Cultural Working Lives -- 3.2.1 Texts as Proxies of the Self, Burden of Work and Coping Strategies -- 3.2.1.1 Hope of Finding Reward in the Future -- 3.2.2 Hope to Challenge Traditional Lifestyles and Gender Norms -- 3.3 Cognitive Dissonance -- 3.4 Coping Strategies and Defence Mechanisms -- 3.4.1 Personal Fantasies about Relationships -- 3.4.2 Mandatory Networking, Culture of Hedonism and Coping Strategies -- 3.4.3 Delusion of Grandeur, Fantasy, Feelings of Omnipotence and Hope -- 3.4.4 Rationalisation, Intellectualisation and Displacement -- 3.4.5 Misrecognition and Denial Strategy -- 3.4.6 Cynical Detachment and Blasé Attitudes -- 3.4.7 'It's Better to See Yourself as a Bohemian than Poor' -- 3.4.7.1 Bohemianism and Social Class -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Conclusion -- 4.1 Findings: Precariousness Leads to Struggles to Secure Ontological Security, Preventing Individualisation and Flourishing -- 4.2 Precariousness Affects all Aspects of Life -- 4.3 People Develop Coping Strategies and Defence Mechanisms to Bear Daily Life under Neoliberalism -- 4.4 Implications of the Findings -- 4.2.1 People Are Beings with Emotions Influenced by Structures -- 4.2.2 Problems Associated with the Process of Individualisation -- 4.2.3 Implications: Canaries in the Coal Mine? -- 4.5 Contribution -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vachet, Jérémy Fantasy, Neoliberalism and Precariousness Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2022 ISBN 9781803823089
Language:
English
