Jaka Primorac

• PhD
• Scientific Advisor at Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO)

In this paper through the analysis of the access to culture issue in the Croatian cultural policy agenda, we illustrate the current cultural policy developments in Croatia in the broader European context. Taking the differentiation between explicit and implicit policies at both macro and micro level we analyse discourses on access to culture in the...

The specificities of labor and employment in creative industries are based on the communication of experiences through symbolic production (Hesmondhalgh and Baker, 2011). The contradiction between creativity and the market orientation is inscribed in the productivity type as well as in the organizational contexts of the creative industries. The typ...

In this article we critically analyse the usage of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) among early-career sociology researchers in Croatia. In Croatia, the CAQDAS community is very small and is dominated by problems of great expectations coming from early-career researchers. This is elaborated through a case study that add...

Publikacija "Osvajanje prostora rada. Uvjeti rada organizacija civilnog društva na području suvremene kulture i umjetnosti" donosi rezultate dvogodišnjeg istraživanja o uvjetima rada u organizacijama civilnog društva na području suvremene kulture i umjetnosti u Hrvatskoj, detaljno analizirajući kvantitativne i kvalitativne podatke koji daju bogat u...

U novom broju IRMO Aktualno autorice donose rezultate istraživanja provedenog u sklopu Obzor Europa projekta CresCine – Povećanje međunarodne konkurentnosti filmske industrije na malim europskim tržištima. Istraživački izvještaj Mala europska filmska tržišta: portreti i usporedbe obuhvatio je izradu portreta sedam malih europskih filmskih tržišta,...

This article explores the challenges experienced by civil society organizations (CSOs) in Croatia, as magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the strategies they use to mitigate their effects. ‘Organisational resilience' is discussed based on interviews with CSO representatives from four fields: contemporary arts and culture, environmental prot...

This chapter introduces the topic and structure of the book Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe. It offers as the first chapter, the contextual outline of the subject in question while also briefly touching upon the focus of individual chapters. The second chapter then provides a key theoretical framework upon which the book is b...

What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe. Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the analysis of EU digital cultural policy, the book i...

The chapter analyses the trajectory of implementation of policies of/for digitisation and digitalisation of culture in Croatia. It critically reviews the available data concerning initiatives and policies concerning the cultural heritage sector, and media and the audio-visual sector. The chapter shows the importance of contextual factors when tryin...

This chapter introduces the topic of the volume and gives the key theoretical framework upon which the book is based. After outlining the changing nature of the key concepts of digital and cultural policy, it further provides argumentation for the nascent field of digital cultural policy research. Special attention is paid to the contextualization...

This chapter compares the digital cultural policies of the seven case countries included in the book while also taking stock of the supranational policy analysis. The comparative analysis of digital cultural policy is presented through three key axes: centralization–decentralization, the division of the digital and cultural policy responsibilities,...

This introductory article provides contextual framing for the contributions to the special issue dedicated to the analysis of the impact of the European Union policies dealing with online platforms that are influencing cultural and audio-visual sectors. This special issue gathers interdisciplinary approaches and diverse contributions highlighting t...

To what extent did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the tools, priorities and organisation of cultural policies? And did the pandemic enhance the digital aspect of these policies? This paper compares pandemic cultural policy measures in seven European countries to answer these questions. The countries all installed a plurality of mitigating measures, c...

Knjiga 'Od projekta do projekta. Rad i zaposlenost u kulturnom sektoru' po prvi puta obrađuje problematiku projektnog rada u kulturnom sektoru u Hrvatskoj. Prvo poglavlje donosi argumente za to da se proces stvaranja umjetničkih i kulturnih djela nazove svojim pravim imenom – radom, i to radom koji mora biti plaćen, te pokazati pozadi¬nu projektne...

U radu se donose rezultati istraživanja o utjecaju prvog vala pandemije bolesti COVID- 19 na život i rad kulturnih radnika i radnica u jugoistočnoj Europi provedenog od svibnja do srpnja 2020. godine. Rad ukazuje na to kako je u navedenom razdoblju u svim istraživanim zemljama (Bosna i Hercegovina, Crna Gora, Hrvatska, Sjeverna Makedonija, Slovenij...

Work in Croatia’s independent cultural sector demands a specific type of individual. A typical worker is female, lives and works in the capital, Zagreb, and is mostly paid by honoraria. She is well educated and has well-educated parents that provide her with the safety net. She is burned out, but overall, she is satisfied with her position and life...

Research on incoming productions has shown the complex picture of transnational power relations between governments, (multinational) media companies and the global network of precarious workers. Drawing on the findings of a case study on the introduction of the Production Incentive (PI) programme within the audio-visual policy in Croatia, this pape...

Internet advertising brought about many changes in communication production, distribution, and consumption. By using critical political economy of communication as the mainstay of our approach, we provide supporting evidence of the ambiguous influence of data-driven advertising dynamic on the news industry and audience habits. We look at what we de...

This introductory article contextually frames the contributions to the special issue gathering articles critically addressing the key questions and challenges that the European Union (EU) and national cultural policies are facing in the 21st century. Interdisciplinary contributions in this special issue point to the diverse understandings of cultur...

Bilić, Primorac and Valtýsson provide an overview of how technology, labour and politics can be problematized. The book is divided into four parts, each emphasising different aspects of the complex issue at hand from a variety of social science and humanities perspectives. Contradictions are taken as heuristic devices that help them understand the...

Barada and Primorac offer a much-needed discussion on the social valuing of female creative labour. By drawing on empirical data on the cultural and creative sectors in Croatia, they show how the dictum that creative labour will be emancipatory for both women and men proved to be a techno-optimistic fallacy, since it encourages non-paid, underpaid,...

‘This book could mark a ‘maturing’ of the digital labour debates, and as such is to be welcomed.’ ‒ Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario, Canada ‘This empirically wide-ranging analysis of the labour-technology relationship could not be more timely or pressing.’ ‒ Juliet Webster, Work & Equality Research, UK ‘An excellent contributio...

The article looks at the policy implications of the changing position of culture, analysing shifts in understanding the role and position of culture in the broader EU agenda. Following short analysis of the changing European Union's discourse pertaining to culture and media sectors, authors analyse wider policy context of the Culture Sub-programme...

Individuals who are professionally engaged in civil society organizations (CSOs) in the field of contemporary culture and arts in Croatia are situated in an ambivalent social and labouring position. On the structural level they represent the elite of the Croatian labour market and society as a whole, while on the individual level they are faced wit...

Primorac reviews the relationship between virtual work and creative labour in the cultural and creative industries. She outlines how the everyday work of creative cultural workers is entwined in a complex network of online and offline working practices. These practices further blur the boundary between work time and leisure time, to the implosion o...

Access issues have been placed in cultural policy focus with the aim to contribute to cultural development, social inclusion, quality of life, etc. and the digital domain opportunities have been looked at as a way to ensure delivering content to interested users. The issue of access to culture in the digital context is understood in terms of reduci...

“Workstyle” can be understood as an intersection of lifestyle and labor strategies that are present in the cultural nonprofit sector. The everyday life of workers in this sector in Croatia, irrespective of whether they are fully employed or working on part-time or similar contracts, is seen as a continuum of working and “belonging” to the sector. T...

The article analyzes the current position and perspectives of cultural and creative industries in Southeastern Europe (SEE) in context of development of public policies. The proposition that SEE entered the post-transitional phase that includes an opening of the region and a creation of new cultural identities is tested through a desk research anal...

U clanku se analiziraju kljucni aspekti rada i zaposlenosti u kulturnim i kreativnim industrijama. Nakon pregleda posebnosti kulturnih i kreativnih industrija od važnosti za razvoj rada i zaposlenosti, problematiziran je i utjecaj informacijskokomunikacijskih tehnologija na njihove promjene pri cemu se istice i pojava participacijskih modela rada i...

This note provides analytical, conceptual, and policy commentary on the proposed Culture Strand of the Creative Europe Programme. It takes into account all available commentary on this Programme from both official sources and a wide range of stakeholders, including published results of consultation and follow up discussions with key actors in the f...

The transition and transformation of the post-socialist societies have brought a shift from the homogeneous model of national cultural identity towards models that promote individual choices and tastes. The new identitarian models open towards multiplicity of value orientations as well as to the plurality of choices inside one's own culture. In thi...

Treća svjetska konferencija mreže Culturelink »Mreže – razvojni aspekti kulture u 21. stoljeću«

In Southeastern Europe, current processes of cultural industrialization have linked particular cultural settings with global cultural trends. A transition towards cultural economy is underway, and new perspectives on cultural development have opened up in the whole region. This is clearly reflected in changing cultural identities and values, in the...

The article is based on interviews with cultural workers in creative industries in SEE, in the context of research on the current position of creative industries in Southeastern Europe. There are three different models of the strategies of cultural workers that can be deciphered: those that ask for a radical change of the system ; those that think...