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- Title
从被动缺席到主动参与—底层劳动者参与艺术活动的休闲制约协商及活动收益研究.
- Authors
郭云娇; 何雅怡; 罗秋菊
- Abstract
Participation in art events is widely considered to be dominated by highly educated groups within society, with sufficient means and leisure time. By contrast, the underclass workers belonging to a lower socio-economic stratum generally have limited education and low incomes, and they face serious economic as well as time constraints. Yet, the constraints hindering the engagement of underclass workers with the arts and their participation at art events have received little research attention. Typically, the spaces of such events and the living spaces of underclass workers constitute separate worlds, which rarely intersect. However, through the interventions of the Fei Art Gallery, vendors at the Nonglin Food Market in Guangzhou have been transformed from being passive nonparticipants at art events into active participants, leading to the integration of these two separate worlds. The role of external interventions is seldom considered in studies on the negotiation of constraints, and there is scope for research that integrates the constraints limiting leisure activities and the benefits of attending events. This study adopted qualitative research approach to examining the participation of stall vendors in artevents resulting from the Fei Art Gallery’s intervention. It explored the intervention’s role in the process of negotiating constraints and enabling stall vendors to participate in art events and their positive impacts on stall vendors. The study’s findings were as follows. First, it is difficult for the underclass workers to negotiate and overcome constraints hindering their engagement with the arts. Therefore, the involvement of external forces is an important prerequisite for successful negotiation of these constraints. Second, the main constraints identified among stall vendors were lack of personal interest, time, and opportunities and unfavorable economic conditions, with lack of personal interest being the main constraint preventing their participation in art events. Third, fostering interpersonal relationships and integrating art into the lives of the underclass workers are essential to overcome the psychological boundaries that prevent their engagement with the arts. However, the ability to negotiate time constraints successfully ultimately determined whether stall vendors participated in events. Fourth, the benefits of event attendance for stall vendors included greater self-esteem, improved interpersonal relationships, pleasure from engaging with art, and life enrichment. This study extends the field of study to encompass constraints that limit engagement with the arts at leisure and participation in art events. Moreover, it attempts to explain the interaction between internal and external forces in the process of negotiating constraints limiting leisure and the benefits of participation in art events. It therefore advances understanding of the entire process of negotiating constraints that impede leisure activities and participation in events. Thus, it provides valuable practical inputs on how to improve the physical and mental states of underclass workers and their lives through their participation in art events, therefore extending the benefits of these events to other social groups.
- Subjects
GUANGZHOU (China); INTERPERSONAL relations; VENDING stands; MOBILE food services; SOCIAL groups; LEISURE; JOB enrichment
- Publication
Tourism Tribune / Lvyou Xuekan, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 5, p137
- ISSN
1002-5006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19765/j.cnki.1002-5006.2023.05.013