Creativity from Suburban Nowheres : Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices

Ilja van Damme

ISBN 10: 1487525796 / ISBN 13: 9781487525798

Editore: University Of Toronto Press Jul 2023, 2023

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Neuware - Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of 'ordinary,' 'mundane,' and 'everyday' practices. Far from being geographies of 'nowhere' - dull, materialistic, and monotone - suburbs are unpacked as being heterogeneous and historically layered places of living, work, and creation. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres displaces mainstream understandings of creativity and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs. Contributors explore the particular forms of creativity that suburbs elicit both in the process of their making, materialization, and community construction, and in the myriad ways in which suburbs are inhabited and experienced. They highlight accounts of suburbs as places that give people the space and latitude to shape individual and collective identities through creative practices at odds with mainstream culture, and often remote from the classic agglomeration 'assets' associated with inner cities. Anchored in historical and geographical research, this volume highlights how and in what forms creativity should be understood in the suburbs, why and when creativity can be found, and how the notion of suburban creativity overthrows ingrained and dominant normative viewpoints. Rather than seeing creativity arise despite its suburban location, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres illuminates the emancipatory potential of suburbs for creativity.

Codice articolo 9781487525798

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• Titolo: Creativity from Suburban Nowheres : Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices
• Editore: University Of Toronto Press Jul 2023
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1487525796
• ISBN 13: 9781487525798
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 152 A x 22 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 22 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 572 grammi

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Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of "ordinary," "mundane," and "everyday" practices. Far from being geographies of "nowhere" – dull, materialistic, and monotone – suburbs are unpacked as being heterogeneous and historically layered places of living, work, and creation. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres displaces mainstream understandings of creativity and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs.

Contributors explore the particular forms of creativity that suburbs elicit both in the process of their making, materialization, and community construction, and in the myriad ways in which suburbs are inhabited and experienced. They highlight accounts of suburbs as places that give people the space and latitude to shape individual and collective identities through creative practices at odds with mainstream culture, and often remote from the classic agglomeration "assets" associated with inner cities.

Anchored in historical and geographical research, this volume highlights how and in what forms creativity should be understood in the suburbs, why and when creativity can be found, and how the notion of suburban creativity overthrows ingrained and dominant normative viewpoints. Rather than seeing creativity arise despite its suburban location, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres illuminates the emancipatory potential of suburbs for creativity.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ilja Van Damme is an associate professor of urban history at the University of Antwerp.
Ruth McManus is an associate professor of geography and associate dean for teaching and learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University.
Michiel Dehaene is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University.