Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

Social imaginaries in lockdown

Bibliographic Data

ID2399676
AuthorsJ Flores (0009-0003-0443-4113), Jacinthe Flore (0000-0002-3136-9236, corresponding author), N A Hendry (0000-0002-2591-420X, RMIT University), Averyl Gaylor (RMIT University)
Year2023
Volume59
Issue1
Pages197-214
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14407833211036757
PMID36873054
OpenAlexW3190634914
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited27

The arts and creative industries are among those most affected by government measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This article discusses a qualitative survey study, open between August and October 2020, with creative arts workers living in Victoria, Australia. The study explored experiences of disruptions to work and broader impacts on daily lives during the pandemic. In this article, we examine how participants discuss their work and circulate pre-existing and create new intensified social imaginaries of a devalued and ignored arts sector in Australia. Our analysis points to how people understand their lives, work and communities amidst a global pandemic in relation to and entangled with particular social imaginaries of the creative arts

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Creative industries · Government (linguistics) · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Work (physics) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies