Creativity in Transition Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
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Biografisk notat
Maruška Svašek is Professor of 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.<p>
<em>“The editors’ and contributors’ point about the relative and collaborative nature of creativity is well made in the volume, and the ethnographic examples shine interesting light on diverse corners of culture while pinpointing a number of shared issues.”</em> <strong>• Anthropology Review Database</strong></p>
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<em>“This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on appropriation and the aesthetics of change. Conceiving creativity as process rather than outcome is the key argument of the book whose contributors discuss the argument in numerous ways and case studies.”</em> <strong>• Peter Probst, Tufts University</strong></p>
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.
Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls 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 improvisation.
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