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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. 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 book will 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.
Supermarkets, in all their everyday mundanity, embody something of
the enormous complexity of living and consuming in late twentieth
century western societies. Shelf Life, first published in 1998,
explores the supermarket as a retail space and as an arena of
everyday consumption in Australia. It historically situates and
critically discusses the everyday food products we buy, the retail
environments in which we do so, the attitudes of the retailers who
construct such environments, and the diverse ways in which all of
us undertake and think about supermarket shopping. Yet this book is
more than narrative history. It engages with broader issues of the
nature of Australian modernity, the globalisation of retail forms,
the connection between consumption and self-autonomy, and the
highly gendered nature of retailing and shopping. It interrogates
also the work of cultural critics, and questions recent attempts to
grasp what it means to consume and to be a 'consumer'.
Supermarkets, in all their everyday mundanity, embody something of
the enormous complexity of living and consuming in late twentieth
century western societies. Shelf Life, first published in 1998,
explores the supermarket as a retail space and as an arena of
everyday consumption in Australia. It historically situates and
critically discusses the everyday food products we buy, the retail
environments in which we do so, the attitudes of the retailers who
construct such environments, and the diverse ways in which all of
us undertake and think about supermarket shopping. Yet this book is
more than narrative history. It engages with broader issues of the
nature of Australian modernity, the globalisation of retail forms,
the connection between consumption and self-autonomy, and the
highly gendered nature of retailing and shopping. It interrogates
also the work of cultural critics, and questions recent attempts to
grasp what it means to consume and to be a 'consumer'.
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