Overview
- Explores the importance creative ecologies
- Re-imagines ‘creativity’ through a new materialist lens
- Offers a bold alternative to creativity's normative uses
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a socio-cultural examination of contemporary creativity studies. Drawing heavily on posthumanist, new materialist and affective theoretics, the author argues in favour of an expansive and sustainable approach to creativity which contributes to an emergent ‘creativity studies’ inter-discipline. It seeks to establish a broader consideration of creativity in socio-culture, that extends beyond, or indeed refutes, the narrowing aperture of entrepreneurship and innovation as synonyms for creativity in economic, cultural and educational contexts and discourses. Drawing on multiple case studies of creative relational and creative ecological empirical research, this book integrates a concern for personal, planetary and geo-political collaboration, as an antidote for ‘innovation for innovation’s sake’.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dan Harris (formerly published as Anne Harris) is Professor, Associate Dean, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. They are an international expert in creativity education and creative methodologies through a combination of creative arts practice and creativity scholarship. Dan’s texts Creativity and Education (2016) and The Creative Turn (2014) are widely-cited texts in the study of the commodification of creativity, its conflation with innovation and creative industries, and in lifespan creative education as a core component of a creative ecologies model.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creative Agency
Authors: Dan Harris
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77434-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77433-2Published: 21 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77436-3Published: 22 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77434-9Published: 20 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2755-4503
Series E-ISSN: 2755-4511
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 189
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Creativity and Arts Education, Educational Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Clinical Psychology