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Who is missing? On structural inequalities in cultural and creative industries

In the last decade, there has been an increased discussion in scientific as well as in policy circles on the gender, class, ethnic and racial inequalities in cultural and creative industries. Different research data has shown that there are diverse obstacles in entering and staying in the sector, which prompted questions on the (diversity of) content that these industries produce and disseminate. In the current socio-political climate where culture is viewed only through the economic lens, there are more and more instances that marginalize the value of cultural work and contribute to precarisation of positions of creative workers. Data shows the continuing trends of low pay and diminishing wages, and how access to (arts and cultural) education and jobs in the cultural and creative industries are strongly determined by social background. This opens questions whose voices are not heard and whose culture is not represented? The presentation will outline key issues and approaches in discussing the structural inequalities in cultural and creative industries and will give an overview of different policy measures that were created in order to grapple with some of them in selected European countries. These issues will then be put into Croatian context where diversity issues in the context of cultural and creative sectors have scarcely been tackled.

creative labour, cultural industries, creative industries, inequalities

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