Att dras mot stadens ljusa lyktor - En undersökning om de kreativa näringarna i Göteborg

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate which types of cultural capital gives high status in the current field of ”the creative industry” – a group which could be seen as a new power elite in Gothenburg – and how people with the ”right” cultural capital is included in the field. The author is invited to several free events within this field, and is investigating the process of inclusion with an auto-ethnographic method. The study will show that the process of inclusion is working quite absolute in the field of the creative industry, and that the audiences are mainly homogenous: masculine, white, middle class, has a taste disposition of the ”eclectic omnivore”, has entrepreneurial knowledges and is an active social media agent. It also shows that their ideals of “tolerance” and “openness” are just another aspect of power through inclusion. The distinction of taste and cultural capital may be more subtle and sophisticated than before in Gothenburg, but is nonetheless still very exclusive.