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Dilemma: Professional Identity Work Among Tokyo-Based Designers

In: Creative Context

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  • Jakob Thestrup

    (The University of Tokyo)

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Given the context of this volume, the chapter sets out to elucidate broader insights into the phenomenology of creative work—indeed the process of creativity—by applying a prism of professional identity work. Specifically, it empirically explores professional identity dilemmas from the vantage point of graphic and fashion designers based in Tokyo, Japan. Drawing on career- and work-narratives, it investigates the role of potentially competing work imperatives as well as market uncertainty. The two groups diverge in unexpected ways and support extant literature in others. Notably, both groups exhibit a distinctly commercial logic that informs ideas of success and failure as well as the professional identity construct itself.

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  • Jakob Thestrup, 2020. "Dilemma: Professional Identity Work Among Tokyo-Based Designers," Creative Economy, in: Nissim Otmazgin & Eyal Ben-Ari (ed.), Creative Context, chapter 0, pages 83-99, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:crechp:978-981-15-3056-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3056-2_6
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