Culture, Economy and Work in 2000s–2010s Estonia
Culture, Economy and Work in 2000s–2010s Estonia

Summary/Abstract: The primary aim of this article is to consider the emerging representations of ‘cultural’ and ‘artistic’ work in 2000s–2010s Estonia. The paper draws on textual materials, such as Estonian creative industries mapping documents, promotional texts and special sections on the creative industries in daily and weekly newspapers. The paper starts by offering a sociologically informed framework wherein the problem of cultural and artistic labour emerges. Borrowing its theoretical and methodological framework from the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau, the article then more specifically looks at the ways in which creative and cultural workers are constructed in the Estonian creative industries discourse.

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