Open AccessActing on Multiple Stages
Author(s) -
Oliver Ibert,
Suntje Schmidt
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
raumforschung und raumordnung
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1869-4179
pISSN - 0034-0111
DOI - 10.1007/s13147-012-0176-9
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , vulnerability (computing) , social constructionism , trace (psycholinguistics) , psychological resilience , action (physics) , sociology , field (mathematics) , object (grammar) , corporate governance , order (exchange) , economics , computer science , social psychology , social science , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , computer security , mathematics , finance , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , programming language
This paper takes a social-constructionist approach to the terms vulnerability and resilience in order to test their analytical potential within the frame of an empirical spatial-science study. The empirical object was deliberately chosen from a field untypical for vulnerability analyses: the volatile labour markets for musical actors. The paper draws on qualitative interviews to trace the actors' construction of labour-market related uncertainties, mainly caused by labour-market dynamics as well as institutional and territorial mismatches. Barely any resilience strategies exist for these forms of vulnerability. As a result, musical actors construct multiple identities from their bodies and talents, which they use in a targeted way within different spatial and social contexts. Two forms of network governance are additionally established to attenuate some of the competitive mechanisms. From a spatial viewpoint, these practices constitute transient, multi-local activity spaces in the labour market in which action is more effective when combined with a relatively stable home base.