Creativity Off the Clock: Re-Conceptualizing Creative Careers

Jonathan David Gross

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77350-6_24

Creativity Off the Clock: Re-Conceptualizing Creative Careers

Jonathan David Gross

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Abstract

This chapter examines how people shape their lives through creative activity. A career is the way we make a living and reproduce our material being. But the etymology of ‘career’ indicates its wider implications: it is a ‘road’ or ‘course’. There is a growing literature addressing the conditions of labour within the creative industries. This chapter instead examines creative careers ‘off the clock’ - people developing paths through life via creative activities outside (or across) the boundaries of remunerated employment. These creative pathways require much greater attention from researchers, educators, arts organisations and policy makers. In documenting creative careers off the clock, the chapter thereby makes a conceptual contribution to two neighbouring fields of inquiry that are currently insufficiently connected: creative labour and cultural participation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work
Editors	Lee Martin, Nick Wilson
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	24
Pages	501-522
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319773506
ISBN (Print)	9783319773490
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77350-6_24
Publication status	Published - 20 Jul 2018

Keywords

Careers
Creative Industries
Creative Labour
Cultural Opportunity
Deficit Model
Narrative (and auto-biography)
Participation
Pathways

UN SDGs

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