Flore Jacinthe, Hendry Natalie Ann, Gaylor Averyl
RMIT University, Australia.
La Trobe University, Australia.
J Sociol (Melb). 2023 Mar;59(1):197-214. doi: 10.1177/14407833211036757.
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 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.
艺术和创意产业是受政府遏制新冠疫情措施影响最严重的行业之一。本文讨论了一项定性调查研究,该研究于2020年8月至10月期间开展,对象是居住在澳大利亚维多利亚州的创意艺术工作者。该研究探讨了疫情期间工作中断的经历以及对日常生活的更广泛影响。在本文中,我们考察了参与者如何谈论他们的工作,以及如何传播澳大利亚一个被贬低和忽视的艺术部门既有的社会想象并创造新的社会想象。我们的分析指出了在全球大流行背景下,人们如何理解他们的生活、工作和社区,这与创意艺术的特定社会想象相关并与之交织在一起。