Creative Labour in Shanghai: Questions on politics, composition and ambivalence

Kanngieser, Anja. 2012. Creative Labour in Shanghai: Questions on politics, composition and ambivalence. Subjectivity, 5(1), pp. 54-74. ISSN 1755-6341 [Article]

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This article introduces and opens discussion on some of the conditions and ambivalences encountered by the rising creative workforce in Shanghai, through engagement with theories of immaterial labour. Drawing from conversations with several Chinese creative workers, the text aims to provoke thought on the potential for political organisation and resistance within fractalised creative sectors mobilised by high levels of innovation, entrepreneurialism, competition and aspiration. By focusing on processes of subjectivation and desire, it calls for considerations of what might constitute political registers in the Shanghainese creative fields.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2011.25

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
April 2012Published

Item ID:

9071

Date Deposited:

11 Oct 2013 08:28

Last Modified:

11 Oct 2013 08:28

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/9071

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