CFP: "Creativity and its Geographies"
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2007
'Sustainability and Quality of Life', 28th to 31st August 07, London, UK.
Double paper session sponsored jointly by:
- Economic Geography Research Group
- Social & Cultural Geography Research Group
Convenors:
Russell Prince (University of Bristol)
Charles Rolfe (University of Bristol)
Abstract:
We have witnessed an explosion of interest in the idea, practice, promise
and critique of 'creativity', so much so that creativity is seemingly
everywhere, inhabiting economic as much as social and cultural geographies.
In many institutional and personal spaces we are being asked to value
creativity. Creativity is sometimes even considered a good in-itself, or
else a solution to various 'problems' in business, education, health care,
urban governance, and so on. Personally, creativity can be a seductive
idea. In vitalist philosophy, creativity is the impersonal force of life
itself. Creativity is sometimes regarded as a solution to the 'failed'
idea of critique or a means by which to act beyond text. Conversely,
critiques of creativity continue, such as how creativity can be seen to be
a moral injunction and as a concept increasingly banalized in governmental
and business discourse. Given the multiple geographies through which
creativity manifests, this double paper session aims to continue to open
out the idea, practice, promise and critique of creativity along many
different lines, thereby placing creativity centrally to geographic inquiry
as a force, object, process and contested fact.
We welcome theoretically informed papers on the theme of creativity from
any area of scholarship, contemporary or historical.
Merely to be indicative, possible topics for papers include:
- the idea of creativity itself
- art, artists, artistry
- aesthetics and creativity
- creative praxis, including political action
- creativity and the archive
- creativity and criticality
- creativity as a value form
- creative cities, planning and governance
- creative classes
- creativity in education
- creativity and spiritual and religious practice
- new business practice
- new health care techniques and therapies
- technological and knowledge formations and flows
- vitalist philosophy
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to
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January 07.
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Charles Rolfe
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
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Bristol BS8 1SS
United Kingdom
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