Creativity in Transition

Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-183-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sva¿ek, Maru¿ka

Meyer, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement

Maruška Svašek

Chapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design

Barbara Plankensteiner

Chapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity

Tereza Kuldova

Chapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan Baskets

Kala Shreen

Chapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India

Amit Desai

Chapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation

Arnd Schneider

Chapter 6. Positioned Creativity

Øivind Fuglerud

Chapter 7. ‘We paint our way and the Christian way together’

Fiona Magowan and Maria Øien

Chapter 8. Undoing Absence through Things

Maruška Svašek

Chapter 9. ‘The Eye Likes It’

Stine Bruland

Chapter 10. Narratives, Movements, Objects

João Rickli

Chapter 11. The Art of Imitation

Rhoda Woets

Afterword

Birgit Meyer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sva¿ek, Maru¿ka
Maruška Svašek is Reader in Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012). She is co-editor of the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement.

Meyer, Birgit
Birgit Meyer (PhD cultural anthropology, 1995) is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She is co-editor of Material Religion and the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Recent publications include Aesthetic Formations. Religion, Media and the Senses (ed, Palgrave 2009), Things. Religion and the Question of Materiality (ed with Dick Houtman, Fordham 2012) and Sensational Movies. Video Vision and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015).

Maruška Svašek is Reader in Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012). She is co-editor of the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement.