Creative Justice

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and the cultural workplace. It first aims to ΓÇÿdo justiceΓÇÖ to the kinds of objects and texts produced by artists, musicians, designers, journalists and other kinds of ΓÇÿsymbol-makersΓÇÖ ΓÇô by appreciating them as meaningful goods with objective qualities. It also shows how cultural work itself has objective quality as a rewarding and socially-engaging practice, and not just a means to an economic end. But this book is also about injustice ΓÇô made evident in the workings of arts and cultural policy, and through the inequalities and degradations of cultural work. In worlds where low pay and wage inequality are endemic, and where access to the best arts academies, jobs and positions is becoming more strongly determined by social background, what chance do ordinary people have of obtaining their own ΓÇÿcreative justiceΓÇÖ? Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars across a range of disciplines including Sociology, Politics, Geography, Media and Cultural Studies the book examines the evidence ΓÇô and proposes some solutions to the problem of obtaining fairer and more equalitarian systems of arts and cultural work.