Sanson and Curtin (2016) describe the modern worker as needing to “ready themselves for iterative change and persistent contingency as standard employment and its associated entitlements become artefacts of a bygone industrial era” (p. 11). An “associated entitlement” in this digital era is the support of a collegial community. This chapter looks at the [im]possibility of finding collegial care in the liminal space of iterative change that defines the world of both art making and adjunct teaching in higher education. Inspired by the Bourdieusian concept of illusio, the author looks at how “precarious livelihoods are indicative of a new world order of social and economic instability” (Curtin & Sanson, 2016, p. 11) and asks if a deconstruction and rebuilding of collegial language can help to ground the creation of community within that new world. Using a short independent film as a case study, the author seeks an expanded collegium that is supported by a vocabulary set inspired by the film that can scaffold an itinerant creative educator’s experience of community and support.
Davey, N. (2025). Precarious creativity and the [im]possibility of the radically Collegial community. In Rupert Collister (Ed), Facing Precarity in Adult, Community, and Vocational Education: Role of Meaningful Work. IGI-Global. DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1099-1.ch002
