Cultural institutions as workplaces: Structural conditions, creative identities in Russia and the UK

The project by the CGES affiliated researcher Margarita Kuleva, NRU ‘Higher School of Economics', explores creative labour in distinct institutional environments. In 2018, Margarita conducted a research trip to the UK and took a series of in-depth interviews at the major public institutions of London to compare them with her ethnographic data on the large Russian museums of St. Petersburg and Moscow. 

Participant:  

• Margarita Kuleva, an affiliated researcher of the CGES and a senior lecturer in sociology at HSE University

Publications:

• Kuleva, M.Turning Pushkin Museum into ‘Russian Tate’: Informal Creative Labour in Transitional Cultural Economy (the Case of Privately Funded Moscow Art-centres). International Journal of Cultural Studies, 1-17. 
• Kuleva, M. (2018) Cultural administrators as creative workers: the case of public and non-governmental cultural institutions in St. Petersburg. Cultural Studies, 32 (5), 727-746.