Globalizing Low Labor: A Collective Ethnography
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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F14%3A00074023" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/14:00074023 - isvavai.cz</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Globalizing Low Labor: A Collective Ethnography
Original language description
The paper reconsiders theories of globalization of media production by focusing on mediation processes within global production networks. Transnational teams on "runaway" productions shot in Prague represent the highest-income end for the local production community; however, their Czech members have relatively low creative control, job security, and prospects of upward mobility. This paper is based on a project whereby more than 100 student interns--while working as assistants on film sets--were simultaneously conducting participant observation and keeping field diaries. In follow-up seminars, we worked together to identify key issues of transnational production cultures: tensions between different nationalities, knowledge transfer, distributed creativity, etc. Such collective ethnography challenges traditional concepts of fieldwork and allows for valorizing "provincial" and multi-focal articulations of the production culture.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP409%2F10%2F1361" target="_blank" >GAP409/10/1361: History of Barrandov Studios in Terms of Organization and Culture of Film Production</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů