This paper assesses the coping mechanisms of creative SMEs in the context of recent
economic downturns. It argues that such industries develop various forms of micro-resilience …

For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper
discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the …

The sharing or “gig” economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurialism to the
masses. Through peer-to-peer technology, workers can monetise their homes, resources …

Exploitation of international migrant workers in the Global North has been increasingly
framed in terms of trafficking, in political and legal domains and by the media. Yet posing …

The last two decades of research and policy discussion have illuminated important changes
in both the opportunities and challenges facing artists and artistic workers as they pursue …

What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender,
racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when …

This article develops understanding of cultural and digital capital in order to evaluate the
contribution of creative practitioners to rural community resilience. Online practices today …

A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The
developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in …

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This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a …

The growing precarity literature offers some valuable ways of thinking about both the roots of
and responses to precarity, whether defined existentially, economically, or intersubjectively …