Creative Measures of the Anthropocene

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Measure and Method

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 1-24

3. Creative Modalities

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 25-51

4. Multi-scalar Shifts and Drifts

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 53-81

5. Affective Measures

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 83-107

6. From the Corporeal to the Imaginative

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 109-137

7. On Being Level-Headed

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 139-165

8. From the Imaginative to the Anthropocene

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 167-197

9. A Marker of Current Measures

   • Kaya Barry, Jondi Keane

   Pages 199-209

10. Back Matter

    Pages 211-215

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This book proposes that creative and participatory modes of measuring, knowing, and moving in the world are needed for coming to grips with the Anthropocene epoch. It interrogates how creative, affective and experiential encounters that traverse the local and the global, as well as the mundane and the everyday, can offer new perspectives on the challenges that lay ahead. This book considers the role of the arts in exploring geographical concerns and increasing human mobility. In doing so, it offers ways to counteract the unstable, shifting and disorienting impacts and debates surrounding human activity and the Anthropocene. The authors bring together perspectives from mobilities, creative arts, cultural geography, philosophy and humanities in an innovative exploration of how creative forms of measurement can assist in reconfiguring individual and collective action.

• affect
• assemblage
• mobilities
• mobile methodologies
• cultural geography
• tourism
• creative arts
• environmental humanities

“This invigorating, exemplary book successfully brings together scientific thought, artistic invention and geographical enquiry to constitute a fertile, politically salient compendium of ideas. Combining pertinent academic theories of mobility, tourism, materiality and performance, a plenitude of artistic works, and examples drawn from their own innovative creative practice, Barry and Keane have produced an ever-engaging, experimental and provocative text. The guiding aim: to interrogate how we might reconsider and reconceptualise how and why we measure. For though they rigorously deconstruct rigid practices of measuring, the authors subtly explore how reconfigured, creative ways of measuring might productively interrogate the conditions and crises heralded by the Anthropocene.” (Tim Edensor, Author of From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017))

• Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

  Kaya Barry

• School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

  Jondi Keane

Kaya Barry is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia. She is a geographer and artist who investigates the intersections of everyday mobility, creativity and tourism.


Jondi Keane is an arts practitioner, critical thinker and Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. For more than three decades he has exhibited, performed and published in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia.

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