They don’t need us’
Affective precarity and critique in transnational media work from the margins of ‘Cultural China’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siao Yuong Fong (0000-0002-0817-6612, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1327-1343 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01634437221140478 |
| OpenAlex | W4311061150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 47 |
Creative labour studies has yielded much critical insights from workers’ experiences of ‘precarity’ and ‘self-exploitation’ with increasing neo-liberalization. This important work’s overwhelming focus on the critique of neoliberalism based on Euro American case studies risk overlooking insights that can be gained from other socio-geopolitical contexts. Drawing on a mix of ethnographic observations and interviews with transnational media producers in Singapore working at the margins of the mainland Chinese media industry, this paper teases out how intersecting cultural, economic and geopolitical power relations manifest in transnational creative labour working under the shadows of both the West and a rising China. Expanding on conceptions of emotional labour and precarity as serving neoliberal structures, I highlight how these producers’ experiences go beyond the economic connotations of precarity to capture what I call affective precarity – a felt sense of spatial-temporal dissonance confronting marginalized media workers. I also consider how such emotional labour can constitute a form of critique
China · Creative industries · Distancing · Ethnography · Geopolitics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Performativity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarious work · Precarity · Sociology · Work (physics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies
The Political Economy of Communication
The Money Shot
Liberalism Disavowed
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Creative Labour
Cruel Optimism
Precarious Creativity
Yesterday once more
Introduction
Beyond nationhood
Struggling to be more visible
No longer aspirational
The Managed Heart
On taking the affective turn
Bad feeling at work
The Promise of Happiness
On the perils of racialized Chineseness
Intersecting Anglicization and Sinicization
Emotions and the everyday
Power, politics and the emotions. Impossible governance
Labor and the Limits of Seduction in Korea’s Creative Economy
Be creative for the state
The romance of work
De-westernizing creative labour studies
Loving work
Caring in Times of Precarity
Labour and passion
Drama production and audiences as ‘affective superaddressee’ in an illiberal democracy
Divergent staging of East Asian patriarchy within the Confucian order in Taiwan’s transnational television drama co-productions
Be creative
The psychic life of policy
Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm
Critique as a technique of self
East Asian pop culture and the trajectory of Asian consumption
The Politics and Aesthetics of Chinese Drama (Huajyu) in Taiwan
Critique et subjectivation. Foucault et Butler sur le sujet
Conceptualizing Resistance
Collaboration reconfigured
Going global or going nowhere? Chinese media in a time of flux
Reconceptualizing resistance
Rethinking resistance through and as affect
Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers
Creative Work and Emotional Labour in the Television Industry
Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |