Transnational freelancing: Ephemeral creative projects and mobility in the music recording industry
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WATSON, Allan and Beaverstock, Jonathan V (2016) Transnational freelancing: Ephemeral creative projects and mobility in the music recording industry. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 48 (7). pp. 1428-1446. ISSN 1472-3409
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Drawing on Gernot Grabher’s work on projects and project ecologies, there has developed a significant literature concerned with project-based organisations, recognising the fluid, transient, skills-based and localised nature of such forms. Yet, despite the inherent need within projects to draw on highly skilled labour, such literature has tended to overlook the importance of freelance, mobile labour within project ecologies, instead focusing on localised labour pools. In this paper, through a unique case study of transnational freelancing in the music recording industry, we provide a critique and development of Grabher’s conceptualisation of projects. Specifically, we focus on freelance labour to reveal the ways in which transnational mobility can reproduce social processes that have assumed to be localised, and thus the ways in which project work can stimulate mobility. Emphasising the very high degrees of ephemerality and latency with social networks, we argue that the social context in which projects operates needs to be considered well beyond local geographical contexts, with mobility acting to bridge extended periods of latency and reproduce project networks. Further, we extend the notion of social proximity within projects by considering how new ecologies of physical and virtual mobility are redefining freelance labour in the music recording industry.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the author accepted manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Sage at 10.1177/0308518X16641412. Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Geography, Planning and Development, Environmental Science (miscellaneous) |
| Faculty: | School of Creative Arts and Engineering > Humanities and Performing Arts |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC pubrouter |
| Depositing User: | JISC pubrouter |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2018 13:32 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2023 13:52 |
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| URI: | https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/4743 |
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