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Please see a list of key resources that have influenced the project below:
Ahmed, S., (2000) ‘Whose Counting?’, Feminist Theory, 1:1, 97-103
Ahmed, S., (2004) ‘Affective Economies’, Social Text 79 22:2, 117-139
Ahmed, S., (2012) ‘On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life’ Duke University Press
Ahmed, S., (2017) ‘Living a Feminist Life’. Duke University Press
Ahmed, S., (2017) ‘Snap!’ [blog] Feminist killjoys, 21 May 2017
Ahmed, S., (2017) ‘Institutional As Usual’. [blog] Feminist killjoys, 24 October 2017
Ahmed, S., (2020) ‘Complaint and Survival’, [blog] Feminist killjoys, 23 March 2020.
Arvidsson, A., (2011) ‘General Sentiment: how value and affect converge in the information economy’, The Sociological Review, 59:2, 39-59
Arvidsson, A., Malossi, G., Naro, S., (2010) ‘Passionate Work? Labor Conditions in the Milan Fashion Industry’, The Journal for Cultural Research, 14:3, 295-309
Berlant, L. (2011) ‘Cruel Optimism’, Duke University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1984), ‘Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste’. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Broekhuizen, F., Dawes, S., Mikelli, D., and Wilde. P., (2015) ‘Transformative Images, Temporality and Infra-Structures of Feeling: An Interview with Rebecca Coleman’. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 9:1, 1-8
brown, a.m., (2017) ‘Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds’ AK Press
Bull, A., and Scharff, C.. (2017) ‘“McDonald’s Music” Versus “Serious Music”: How Production and Consumption Practices Help to Reproduce Class Inequality in the Classical Music Profession’. Cultural Sociology 11:3, 283–301.
Butler, J., (2018) ‘Solidarity/Susceptibility’. Social Text 36: 4, 1–20
Coleman, R., (2014) ‘Inventive Feminist Theory: Representation, Materiality and Intensive Time’. Women: A Cultural Review 25:1, 27–45.
Coleman, R., (2016) ‘Notes Towards a Surfacing of Feminist Theoretical Turns’. Australian Feminist Studies 31:89, 228–45.
Cutrone, K. And Bryan, M., (2010) ‘If You Have To Cry Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You’. Harper One
Davies, P., (2012) ‘“Me”, “Me”, “Me”: The Use of the First Person in Academic Writing and Some Reflections on Subjective Analyses of Personal Experiences’. Sociology 46: 4, 744–52
Desai, J., (2020) ‘This Work isn’t For Us’, [paper]
Desai, J., (2020a). What Do We Want From Each Other After We Have Told Our Stories?. [Video]
Desai , J. and Jaganathan, A., (2020). ‘This Work isn’t For Us 2’. [video]
Dior and I, 2014 [film]. Directed by Tcheng, F., France: CIM Productions
Dowling, E., (2007) ‘Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker’ Ephemera 7:1, 117-132
Gill, R. (2014) ‘Unspeakable Inequalities: Post Feminism, Entrepreneurial Subjectivity, and the Repudiation of Sexism among Cultural Workers’. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 21:4, 509–28.
Gill, R., and Pratt. A., (2008) ‘In the Social Factory?: Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural Work’. Theory, Culture & Society 25:7–8, 1–30.
Hill Collins, P., (1986) ‘Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought’ Social Problems 33:6, S14-S32
Hill Collins, P., (2012) ‘Looking back, moving ahead: Scholarship in service to social justice’ Gender & Society 26(1): 14–22.
Hochschild, A.R., (1983) ‘The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling’. University of California Press
hooks, B., (1984) ‘Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center’. South End Press
hooks, B., (1994), ‘Teaching to Transgress’ Routledge
Hoult, E. C. (2012). ‘Recognizing and Escaping the Sham: Authority Moves, Truth Claims and the Fiction of Academic Writing About Adult Learning’. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 8(2).
Jafri, B., (2017) ‘Intellectuals Outside the Academy: Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Steven Salaita, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’. Social Justice 44:4, 119-131
Jaggar, A.M., (1989) ‘Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology’. Inquiry 32:2, 151–76.
Kell On Earth, 2010 [television], Produced by Taylor, B., Cutforth, D., Lipsitz, J., Cutrone, K., USA: Magical Elves Productions
LUX (2020) ‘This Work Isn’t For Us’. [online] LUX
Lorde, A., (1997) ‘The Uses of Anger’. Women’s Studies Quarterly 25:1-2, 278–85
McRobbie, A., (2003) ‘British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?’ Routledge
McRobbie, A., (2003) ‘Club to company’. Cultural Studies, 16 (4): 516 – 31
McRobbie, A., (2011) ‘Reflections On Feminism, Immaterial Labour And The Post-Fordist Regime’. New Formations 70:70, 60–76
McRobbie, A., (2016) ‘Be Creative: Making A Living In The New Culture Industries’. Polity Press
McRobbie, A., (2016a) ‘Towards a Sociology of Fashion Micro-Enterprises: Methods for Creative Economy Research’. Sociology 50:5, 934–48
McRobbie, A., Strutt, D., and Bandinelli, C. (2019) ‘Feminism and the Politics of Creative Labour: Fashion Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan’. Australian Feminist Studies 34:100, 131–48.
Mensitieri, G., (2020) ‘The Most Beautiful Job In The World’, Bloomsbury
Muhammad, Z. and De La Puente, G., (2018) ‘In Defence of Criticism’, [podcast] The White Pube
Olufemi, L., (2020) ‘Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power’, Pluto Press
Phipps, A. (2016) ‘Whose Personal Is More Political? Experience in Contemporary Feminist Politics’. Feminist Theory 17:3, 303–21
Puwar, N., (2004) ‘Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies out of Place’. Berg
Quaintance, M., (2017)
‘The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression - Frontpage - e-Flux Conversations’ [online]
Scharff, C., (2016) ‘The Psychic Life of Neoliberalism: Mapping the Contours of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity’. Theory, Culture & Society 33:6,107–22
Stokes, A., (2015) ‘The Glass Runway: How Gender and Sexuality Shape the Spotlight in Fashion Design’. Gender & Society 29:2, 219–43.
Taylor, J., (2011) ‘The Intimate Insider: Negotiating the Ethics of Friendship When Doing Insider Research’. Qualitative Research 11:1, 3–22
The City, 2008 [television], Produced by Gateley, L., Travis, S., USA: Done and Done Productions
The Devil Wears Prada, 2006 [film], Directed by Frankel, D., USA: Fox 2000 Pictures & Dune Entertainment
The First Monday in May, 2016 [film], Directed by Rossi, A., USA: Magnolia Picture
The Hills, 2006 [television], Produced by Gateley, L., Travis, S., USA: Done and Done Productions
The Model Agency, 2011 [television], Produced by Todd, A., McIvor, A. UK: Maverick Television
The Rachel Zoe Project, 2008 [television], Produced by Day, A., Tarver, B., Wan, D.W., Druckerman, K., Zoe, R., USA: Left/Right Productions
The September Issue, 2009 [film] Directed by R.J. Cutler, USA: Roadside Attractions
Vanni, I., (2016) ‘“Why Save the World When You can Design It?” Precarity and Fashion in Milan’, Fashion Theory, 20:4, 441-460
Wissinger, E., (2007) ‘Modelling a Way of Life: Immaterial and Affective Labour in the Fashion Modelling Industry’, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organisation, Vol 7