Plug&Play Places: Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers

Robert Nadler

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2014

Plug&Play Places

Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers

Robert Nadler

https://doi.org/10.2478/9783110401745

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About this book

In post-industrial societies more and more people earn an income in creative knowledge work, a highly flexible labour market segment that demands a geographically mobile workforce. Creative knowledge work is based on an understanding of language, culture and symbolic meanings. This can best be obtained through local and national embeddedness. Yet, this necessity for embeddedness stands in contrast to the demand in geographical mobility. How is this contradiction solved by individuals? What new forms of place attachment does this bring about?
This book introduces a showcase of 25 multilocal creative knowledge workers, who live in different countries at the same time. It investigates how continuous mobility becomes part of their lifeworld, and how it changes their feelings of belonging and practices of place attachment. Applying an innovative methodological mix of social phenomenology, hermeneutics and mental mapping, this book takes a detailed look at biographies and the role of places in mobile lifeworlds.
Plug&Play Places brings forth the idea that places have to be understood as individual items, which are configured and then plugged into the ‘system’ of the own lifeworld. They can be ‘played’ without great effort once an individual needs to make use of them. This new type of place attachment is a form of subjective standardization of place, which complements the well-known models of objective standardization of places.
Plug&Play Places is relevant for scientists who deal with mobility and its impact on individual lifeworlds, with transnational multilocality and with flexibilized labour markets. Furthermore, the book provides a detailed qualitative perspective which can enrich the explanations of quantitative research in the same field. It is an interesting reading also for practitioners engaged in urban planning, housing and real estate development.
Robert Nadler holds a doctoral degree in Urban and Local European Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and published on creative industries, multilocality and labour mobility.

Creative Knowledge Workers, Multilocal Lifeworlds, Place Attachment

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robert Nadler, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	X
1 Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2 Creative Industries Publicly Available Download PDF	7
3 Roots: Understanding Belonging Publicly Available Download PDF	74
4 Routes: Understanding Mobility Publicly Available Download PDF	102
5 Synthesis: Evolving Fields of Interest Publicly Available Download PDF	155
6 Empirical Design and Methodology Publicly Available Download PDF	170
7 Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers Publicly Available Download PDF	229
8 Creative Industries, Roots, and Routes: Discussion of the Findings Publicly Available Download PDF	366
9 Conclusions Publicly Available Download PDF	392
Epilogue Publicly Available Download PDF	399
Appendix: Statistical Definitions of Creative Industries Publicly Available Download PDF	400
References Publicly Available Download PDF	404
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	420

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Mobility Studies, Human Geography, Sociology, Social Phenomenology, Cultural Anthropology, Qualitative Methods
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 424
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Multilocality; Mobility Studies; Creative Industries; Place attachment; Social phenomenology

eBook

Published: October 8, 2014
ISBN: 9783110401745

Hardcover

Published: October 8, 2014
ISBN: 9783110401738