Spaces of Vernacular Creativity : Rethinking the Cultural Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415480956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Tim Edensor;Deborah Leslie;Steve Millington

Opis

'Spaces of Vernacular Creativity' argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices, and the often marginal and everyday spaces in which creativity takes shape.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Rethinking Creativity: Critiquing the Creative Class Thesis (Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington and Norma M. Rantisi)  Part 1: Governing and Practising Creativity  2. Creative Spaces and the Art of Urban Living (Graeme Evans)  3. Creativity by Design? The Role of Informal Spaces in Creative Production (Rantisi and Leslie)  4. Art goes AWOL (Malcolm Miles)  Part 2: Decentering Creativity  5. Creative Suburbs: Cultural ‘Popcorn’ Pioneering in Multi-purpose Spaces (Alison Bain)  6. Beyond Bohemia: Geographies of Everyday Creativity for Musicians in Toronto (Brian J. Hracs)  7. Mapping Vernacular Creativity: the Extent and Diversity of Rural Festivals in Australia (Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley and Jim Walmsley)  8. Imagining the Spatialities of Music Production: The Co-constitution of Creative Clusters and Networks (Bas Van Heur)  9. Remediating Vernacular Creativity: Photography and Cultural Citizenship in the Flickr Photosharing Network (Jean Burgess)  Part 3: Everyday Spaces of Creativity  10. Creativity, Space and Performance: Community Gardening (David Crouch)  11. Growing Places: Community Gardening, Ordinary Creativities and Place-based Regeneration in a Northern English City (Paul Milbourne)  12. Creative Destruction and Critical Creativity: Recent Episodes in the Social Life of Gnomes (Tracey J. Potts)  13. Christmas Lights Displays and the Creative Production of Spaces of Generosity (Edensor and Millington)  Part 4: Alternative Creativities  14. Challenge, Change, and Space in Vernacular Cultural Practice (Ann Markusen)  15. The Politics of Creative Performance in Public Space: Towards a Critical Geography of Toronto Case Studies (Heather E. McLean)  16. Creativity Unbound: Cultivating the Generative Power of Non-economic Neighbourhood Spaces (Ava Bromberg)