Racialisation in the Creative Industries and the Arab-Australian Multicultural Artist

Idriss, Sherene

doi:10.1080/07256868.2016.1190698

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“…This is not an uncommon experience whether Muslim or non-Muslim, male or female and part of a long history of the artist as an economic outsider often dependent on patronage (Bain, 2005; Becker, 2008; Murray and Murray, 2006). Most participants are from migrant or first-generation backgrounds and stressed that this added ‘pressure’ (Bergsgard and Vassenden, 2015; Idriss, 2016). Sarah reflected:I think I suppose there’s an overwhelming pressure that one might feel with migrant parents who came with nothing – that I need to make money, I need to make my parents proud….…”

Section: Becoming An Artist: Negotiating Identity In Families and Com...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Too Muslim or not Muslim enough? Exploring identity negotiations for women visual artists in Australia

Ralph

Gibson

2021

Journal of Sociology

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The title of this article is deliberately provocative aiming to trouble the imposition of identity fixations and reductive assumptions on creative endeavours and outputs. This article is based on a research project which investigated the identity negotiations and representational responsibilities of women visual artists of Muslim faith and/or cultural background practising and exhibiting their artwork in Australia. This article shows how artists sometimes embrace certain identity markers in order to gain opportunities and promote forms of visibility and debate. At the same time, artists can feel the limitations of being pigeonholed and scrutinised because they have not met the normative and moral expectations of their cultural and religious communities as well as those of communities and organisations associated with the arts sector they have been associated with or with which they may wish to have a future association.

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Section: Becoming An Artist: Negotiating Identity In Families and Com...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Too Muslim or not Muslim enough? Exploring identity negotiations for women visual artists in Australia

Ralph

Gibson

2021

Journal of Sociology

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“…Migration scholars have likewise long critiqued assumptions made about cultural diversity within urban multicultures, which presume that intercultural relationships are built upon the centrality of fixed cultural differences. As Harris (2016) and Noble (2009) contend, this leads intercultural engagements to be framed through 'contact' and 'encounter' discourses, and non-white migrant 'diversity' to be seen as the 'additive' to this relationship (see also Idriss 2016). Simplistic notions of intercultural relations risk erasing what the 'intercultural' already is in Australianot the meeting or interface of separate domains or reified ethnic groups, but 'a complex field constituted through a number of micro-social and macro social processes' (Hinkson and Smith 2005, 159).…”

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Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures: race, place and local identities

Butler

Ben

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In the current age of rural mobilities and economic restructuring, the ethnic and racial compositions of rural towns across Anglosphere nations of the Global North have significantly transformed. As a result of these changes, the conditions which support rural multicultures are increasingly relevant to scholarship and policymaking. 'Everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' have become key approaches within such research in rural environments. These perspectives offer important insights into understanding complex social relationships, reciprocities and circumstances of belonging in rural places. However, as UK-based critiques argue, a focus on 'everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' may also risk obscuring how colonial legacies have shaped and informed racialised and classed hierarchies of belonging in distinct contexts. In this paper we turn these critiques to settler colonial Australia and its increasingly diverse rural towns. We bring together emerging literature in the study of rural migration with scholarship from Indigenous studies and anthropology on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal rural social relations. Working at the intersection of these bodies of works, we argue that the histories and structures of settler colonialism be centred in research on rural multicultures, as these legacies and ongoing conditions shape social relationships in contemporary rural Australia.

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“…Similar dynamics have been identified in other industries (Hesmondhalgh and Saha, 2013). For example, recent projects have illuminated the specific experiences of ethnic and racial minorities in different creative industries such as inequalities in British Asian Theater (Saha, 2017), the British Asian publishing industry (Saha, 2016), the working conditions of Arab–Australian artists (Idriss, 2016), and the experience of racial minorities in the New Orleans film industry (Mayer, 2017). It is evident that belonging to an ethnic or racial minority group carries additional meanings and consequences when working in an already precarious setting (Saha, 2018).…”

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Constructing ethno-national differentiation on the set of the TV series, Fauda

Lavie

Jamal

2019

Ethnicities

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Cultural industries, television among them, are industries that exemplify harsh working conditions and precariousness. Recently, there has been greater attention paid to the specific experiences of ethnic and racial minorities in the creative industries in general and on television specifically. However, the study of minorities in television has generally focused on content analysis and not on the daily experiences of workers in the precarious television labor market itself. This paper offers an in-depth examination of the work process and conditions of ethnic-national minority (Israeli-Palestinians) versus majority creative workers (Jewish Israelis) in a television production, using observations conducted on the set of the Israeli TV series, Fauda ("Chaos" in Arabic) as a case study. Our study's conclusions emphasize the way groups' experiences reproduce social hierarchies based on ethnicity, nationality, and gender.

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Racialisation in the Creative Industries and the Arab-Australian Multicultural Artist

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Too Muslim or not Muslim enough? Exploring identity negotiations for women visual artists in Australia

Too Muslim or not Muslim enough? Exploring identity negotiations for women visual artists in Australia

Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures: race, place and local identities

Constructing ethno-national differentiation on the set of the TV series, Fauda

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