This groundbreaking Handbook brings together leading international experts in creativity and culture research to provide an overview of current debates. It also showcases the the wealth of topics, approaches and definitions involved with the interdisciplinary topic of creativity research. The theoretical and methodological innovations emerging from the joint study of creativity and culture highlight the role of creativity within today's innovation-based, multicultural societies. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and Africa, this Handbook provides a truly global...
This groundbreaking Handbook brings together leading international experts in creativity and culture research to provide an overview of current debate...
This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life - usually edited out of traditional research papers - can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in research life, the 'detours', can potentially glean important results. The authors introduce the process of 'writing-sharing-reading-writing' as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a...
This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The ...
This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world. Aesthetic devices such as murals, tags, posters, street performances and caricatures are discussed in terms of how they are employed to occupy urban spaces and present alternative visions of social reality. Based on empirical research, the authors use the framework of creative psychology to explore the aesthetic dimensions of resistance that can be found in graffiti, art, music, poetry and other creative cultural forms. Chapters include case...
This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the wor...
Chapters explore various aspects of poetic inquiry including poetry as data, turning data into poetry, poetry as literature review and poetry as reflective writing.
Chapters explore various aspects of poetic inquiry including poetry as data, turning data into poetry, poetry as literature review and poetry as refle...
This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike.
This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psycho...
Introducing a new model of creative mental health care combined with recommendations for wellbeing, Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice is a practical, evidence-based book for students, practitioners and researchers in mental health nursing and related disciplines.
Introducing a new model of creative mental health care combined with recommendations for wellbeing, Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice i...
This book explores the relevance of literature and the performing and visual arts for effective clinical psychotherapy. There is a growing interest in the use of the arts in psychotherapy, in part due to an increasing awareness of the limitations in verbal communication and scepticism towards traditional forms of medical treatment.
This book explores the relevance of literature and the performing and visual arts for effective clinical psychotherapy. There is a growing interest in...
It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world.
It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potenti...
As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of "process", circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity.
As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. Ruth Richar...
This highly interdisciplinary edited collection offers valuable insight into the creative process for scholars and practitioners in the fields of psychology, education, and creative studies, as well as for any other readers interested in the creative process.
This highly interdisciplinary edited collection offers valuable insight into the creative process for scholars and practitioners in the fields of psyc...
