Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity

Adopting a geographically diverse and theoretically rigorous approach, this Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity is a cutting-edge study of creativity as it has emerged in policy, academic, activist, and cultural discourse over the last two decades. A range of sectors are explored with in-depth engagement and understanding, including: dance, music, craft, visual art, circus arts and fashion. This Handbook departs from conventional modes of analysing creativity by industry, region or sector, and instead identifies key themes that thread through shifting contexts of the creative, namely creativity as imaginary, locality, mobility, labour, culture, intervention and method. By tracing the myriad spatialities of creativity, the chapters map its inherently paradoxical features: reinforcing persistent conditions of inequality even as it opens avenues for imagining and enacting more equitable futures. The conceptual framework proposed for critically appraising present debates and articulating future directions for creative and cultural industries will be useful for scholars and academics researching culture, media and design. Policy makers and professionals working in creative and cultural industries (CCIs) will find the wide range of case studies in this Handbook an essential tool for further understanding the field. Contributors include: S.T. Allison, S. Baker, J. Banfield, D. Bennett, S. Black, C. Brennan-Horley, A.R. Brown, P. Carter, S. Ching-Kiu Chan, K. Connell, A. de Dios, S. de Leeuw, O. Efthimiou, C. Gibson, S. Hannon, H. Hawkins, M. Keane, L. Kong, D. Leslie, S. Luckman, H. McLean, S. McQuire, J. O'Connor, N. Papastergiadis, J. Peck, N.M. Rantisi, A. Rogers, J. Smith, J. Wang, S. Warren, D. Wyatt, C. Veal, A. Yue, L. Zhang

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Geographies of Creativity: Inherited Concepts, Revised Vistas ANJELINE DE DIOS AND LILY KONG PART I. Creativity as Imaginary 2. The Creative Imaginary: Cultural and Creative Industries and the Future of Modernity JUSTIN O’CONNOR 3. Culture Club: Creative Cities, Fast Policy, and the New Symbolic Order JAMIE PECK 4. From Cultural industries to Creative Industries and Back? Towards Clarifying Theory and Rethinking Policy LILY KONG PART II. Creativity as Locality 5. Creativity as Locality: The Role of Artists and Galleries in a Toronto Creative District DEBORAH LESLIE AND SHANNON BLACK 6. Beyond the ‘Buzz’: Locating Critical Geographies of Creativity CHRIS GIBSON AND CHRIS BRENNAN-HORLEY 7. The Role of Arts and Culture in Resilient Cities: Creativity and Place-Making AUDREY YUE PART III. Creativity as Mobility 8. The Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at Work: Mobility of the Creative Workforce JUNE WANG AND LUYUE ZHANG 9. The Creative Mobilities of Cultural Identity: Transnational Tours of Philippine Performing Arts Ensembles ANJELINE DE DIOS 10. People, Places and Processes: Crafting Authenticity Through Situating the Local in the Global SUSAN LUCKMAN PART IV. Creativity as Labour 11. The Role of Heroic Creativity and Leadership in Creative Work DAWN BENNETT, OLIVIA EFTHIMIOU AND SCOTT T. ALLISON 12. The Rise and Fall of Professional Singers: A Typology of Creative Careers in the Performing Arts KATHLEEN CONNELL, ANDREW R. BROWN AND SARAH BAKER PART V. Creativity as Culture 13. Contemporary Cambodian Dance and Sites of National Culture: Chumvan Sodhachivy’s YouTube Page AMANDA ROGERS 14. Whose Culture? Spatialising Artful Institutions, Migration and Belonging in Manchester SASKIA WARREN 15. Ambient Culture: Making Sense of Everyday Participation in Open, Public Space NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS, STEPHANIE HANNON, SCOTT MCQUIRE, DANIELLE WYATT AND PAUL CARTER PART VI. Creativity as Intervention 16. En/Acting Radical Change\: Theories, Practices, Places and Politics of Creativity as Intervention HEATHER MCLEAN AND SARAH DE LEEUW 17. Performing Alterity: Creative Practice as Intervention in Postcolonial Cultural Politics STEPHEN CHING-KIU CHAN 18. Cultures of Creativity and Innovation in Greater China MICHAEL KEANE 19. From Social ‘Integration’ to Transformation: Supporting the Emancipatory Potential of Circus Arts Creativity DEBORAH LESLIE, NORMA RANTISI AND JESSIE SMITH PART VII. Creativity as Method 20. Making as Geographical Method JANET BANFIELD 21. Creativity as Method: Exploring Challenges and Fulfilling Promises? CHARLOTTE VEAL AND HARRIET HAWKINS Index

About the Author :
Edited by Anjeline de Dios, formerly Lingnan University, Hong Kong and Lily Kong, Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University

Review :
'Two decades after the original promotion of creative industries, there is a period of global rethinking. With talk of a ''creative economy'' that goes beyond the traditional sectors, critiques of creative cities, and a stalling of three decades of economic globalization, it is a timely opportunity for critical work on geographies of creativity. This collection draws together a diverse and accomplished collection of scholars well equipped to undertake this important task.' --Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, Australia