RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012: 3rd to 5th July 2012, Edinburgh, UK
Call for papers: Historical Geographies of Creative Economies
(sponsored by RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group and RGS-IBG
Economic Geography Research Group)
Organisers: Dr Nicola Thomas and Dr Doreen Jakob (Department of
Geography, University of Exeter, UK)
This session offers an opportunity to engage with historically and
geographically sensitive analysis of creative economies. While much of
today’s research explores the current and future situation of creative
industries, this session recognises that much can be learnt through
considerations of the past expressions of creative industries. As
Knell (2007) reminds us: “one of the besetting sins of creative
industries policy-making is its obsession with the new, its insistence
that everything is ‘changed utterly,’ and its seeming ignorance, of
its own history”. We wish to open up a space for geographers to
identify agendas for such historically sensitive research around
creative economies, noting the intersections with contemporary studies
of creative industries, whilst maintaining a critical perspective on
the dangers of presentism within such research. As such the session
calls for geographically and historically contextual understandings of
creative economies.
We are interested in the diverse range of themes that current
researchers are engaged with, including, but not limited to:
• Spatial analysis of creative economies (regions, cities, quarters,
networks, clusters, collectives)
• Historical geographies of creative industries policy and creative
sector governance
• Creative organisations and institutions, businesses and individuals
• Historical geographies of creative practice and labour
• Connections between creativity, place, landscape, identity
• Historical geographies of art worlds: production, consumption,
exchange and circulation
• Methodological challenges and problematics of an historical frame of analysis
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 250 words) to Nicola Thomas
([log in to unmask]) and Doreen Jakob ([log in to unmask])
by Wednesday 25th January 2012.
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