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Art-Based Social Enterprise, Young Creatives and the Forces of Marginalisation

von: Grace McQuilten, Amy Spiers, Kim Humphery, Peter Kelly
48,14 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	15.09.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9783031109256
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

This book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations, and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural challenges of marginality. 

The book explores the local and global contexts through which art-based social enterprises (ASEs) operate and within which they attempt – often successfully – to improve access to education and work for emerging creatives. It also attends to the findings generated through engaging with the lived experiences of the staff and young creatives involved in our ASE case studies, in order to understand both the challenges and impacts of the ASE model on young people’s education, training, and employment pathways. 

The book focuses on three broad themes; precarious youth and digital futures, material practice and sustainable economies, and cultural citizenship in the urban fringe. In exploring these themes, the book contributes to debates about the limits, possibilities and challenges that attach to, and emerge from, an ASE model and highlights the ways in which these models can contribute to young people’s well-being, engagement, education and training, and work pathways. More broadly, it examines the possibilities of art as a means of social and cultural engagement. In the context of the precarious future of the creative industries, this book emphasise the ways in which young artists are building alternative economic and cultural models that support both individual pathways and collective change. 

This bookwill move the field forward with a critical lens that engages closely with experience and the lived realities of juggling multiple priorities of social, economic and artistic goals.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Artistic practice and social outcomes in a market-driven landscape.- Chapter 2: Precarious youth and digital futures.- Chapter 3: The Youthworx model: Disengaged young people and creative digital training.- Chapter 4: Fashioning a future: Material practice, creativity and sustainable economies.- Chapter 5: The Social Studio: Hope and pragmatic ambition.- Chapter 6: Creative practice, cultural citizenship and the urban fringe.- Chapter 7: Outer Urban Projects: Community building versus mainstreaming.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Autorenportrait

Grace McQuilten is an art historian, curator and writer, and Associate Professor in the School of Art at RMIT University, Australia. She has worked extensively in social enterprise and community development alongside her academic career.. Amy Spiers is an artist, curator, writer and researcher. She is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctorate Fellow at the School of Art at RMIT University, Australia, where she is engaged in research that explores the critical capacities of public and socially engaged art, and its potential to prompt discussion about difficult histories and social inequalities that are overlooked or smoothed over.Kim Humphery is Convenor of the Research Training Unit in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Australia. She is best known for her work in the history and sociology of consumption, and has published extensively on ethical consumption and enterprise. Peter Kelly is Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. He is a sociologist of youth, education and work who has published extensively on young people, globalization, education and work.

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This book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations, and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural challenges of marginality. Grace McQuilten is an art historian, curator and writer, and Associate Professor in the School of Art at RMIT University, Australia. She has worked extensively in social enterprise and community development alongside her academic career..  Amy Spiers is an artist, curator, writer and researcher. She is a ViceChancellor’s Postdoctorate Fellow at the School of Art at RMIT University, Australia, where she is engaged in research that explores the critical capacities of public and socially engaged art, and its potential to prompt discussion about difficult histories and social inequalities that are overlooked or smoothed over.Kim Humphery is Convenor of the Research Training Unit in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Australia. She is best known for her work in the history and sociology of consumption, and has published extensively on ethical consumption and enterprise. Peter Kelly is Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. He is a sociologist of youth, education and work who has published extensively on young people, globalization, education and work.

Sonderbeitrag

Analyses the idea of using creative enterprise to channel marginality Examines challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises Explores the operating models, pedagogical approaches and impacts of SEIs with young artists

Unpublished endorsement

“This book is a fascinating investigation into the role of art-based social enterprises (ASEs) in young people’s lives. This book is a timely mediation on some of the opportunities and challenges ASE face in a time of growing uncertainty and work precarity. A time in which both young people and the creative industries have been disproportionality disadvantaged. Through case studies including The Social Studio (a fashion ASE for refugee and migrant communities) and Youthworx (young people training), the book celebrates the talents and voices of young artists engaged in ASEs as not “marginal” but instead impacted by structural forces of marginalisation. It pushes against the hardship-to-success individual narrative to bring a critical and creative approach to marginalisation as a structural phenomenon. This is not just a book about recalibrating how we think about young people, social enterprises and marginalisation but also a creative exploration in the possibilities and potentialities.In sum, it seeds hope in a time of upheaval. For anyone interested in young people, social enterprise or how social justice manifests in action today, this is your book!” --- Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University, Australia"This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the rising turn to social enterprise and entrepreneurial cultures in addressing inequality and marginality. Bringing an insightful account of arts-based social enterprise the authors highlight the complex contexts and experiences of young people engaging in creative practices. Art/Work brings to life how new forms of labour, education and training, creative practices and self-work collide with the contemporary enterprising ethic."-- Jessica Gerrard, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia<div> </div>