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Creative Agency

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Intermezzo 1: Space

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 1-2
  3. Chapter 1: Creative Ecologies

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 3-24
  4. Intermezzo 2: Fire

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 25-29
  5. Chapter 2: Melbourne

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 31-55
  6. Intermezzo 3: Air

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 57-60
  7. Chapter 3: Singapore

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 61-88
  8. Intermezzo 4: Land

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 89-102
  9. Chapter 4: Hong Kong

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 103-133
  10. Intermezzo 5: Water (badu)

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 135-143
  11. Chapter 5: Sydney

    • Dan Harris
    Pages 145-164
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 183-189

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

  • School of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Dan Harris

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

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eBook USD 119.00
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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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