Creative Work

How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their attempts to navigate a changing environment which affects spaces, identities, and professional roles. As cross-disciplinary re-thinking of work, labour processes and management practices in the creative and cultural industries, the book offers perspectives on the importance of highlighting creative work as a phenomenon and practice beyond a particular industry, market, or public sector. Providing an opportunity to expand our conception of what creative work is, the book draws on studies of a range of activities, practices and sectors that are usually included in the cultural and creative industries as well as ones that are more untraditional. The result is a volume that will interest students, practictioners, and scholars with an interest in the creative industries. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Erika Andersson Cederholm is Professor of Service Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Katja Lindqvist is Associate Professor at the department of Service Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Ida de Wit Sandström holds a PhD and is researcher at the Department of History at Lund University, Sweden. Philip Warkander is Assistant Professor in Textile Management at University of Borås, Sweden.

Introduction Erika Andersson Cederholm, Katja Lindqvist, Ida de Wit Sandström and Philip Warkander Part I Governing, Organising and Enabling 1. Creative Work and Public Policy Katja Lindqvist 2. Creative Work in Performing Arts in Sweden: Dreaming of a Joint Performing Arts Lab Anna Lyrevik 3. Creative Work and Social Innovation: The Case of Innovating in an Open-Air Museum Malin Andersson 4. Creative Work and Working Space Marthe Nehl 5. Strategies for Creative Agency in Performing Arts Jörgen Dahlqvist and Kent Olofsson 6. Creative Work and Business Support: Entrepreneuring in a Liminal Space Sara Malou Strandvad, Marije Miedema and Nathalie Schram 7. Platforms for Creative Work Ida de Wit Sandström and Marie Ledendal Part II Sites, Spaces and Performances 8. Social Media and the Documentation of Creative Work: New Sites and Insights Nada Endrissat, Viviane Sergi and Claudine Bonneau 9. Crime Writing and Social Marketing as Creative Work Sara Kärrholm and Carina Sjöholm 10. Creative Work and Children's Books Carolyn Hunter and Nina Kivinen 11. Performing Creative Work in Public Charlotte Østergaard 12. Urban Creativity as Site-Specific Creative Production and Career Work Svenja Tams and Brigitte Biehl Part III Relational Work, Enterprising and Precarity 13. Creative Work in the Fashion Industry Philip Warkander 14. Creative Work in the Digital Games Industry Malin Espersson, Mikael Bergmasth and Erika Andersson Cederholm 15. Creative Work, Precarity and COVID-19 Jessica Tanghetti and Federica Viganò 16. Creative Work and Entrepreneurial Creativity Monica Calcagno and Rachele Cavara 17. Creative Work, Ecopreneurship and Sustainable Lifestyles Cecilia Fredriksson and Filippa Säwe 18. Creative Work and Mental Health Sima N. Wolgast and Eva V. Hoff Epilogue Erika Andersson Cederholm, Katja Lindqvist, Ida de Wit Sandström and Philip Warkander