RGS/IBG CFP Development geography’s ‘creative turn’: reconfiguring power and partnership?
We’re seeking abstracts for a proposed panel session at the 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, sponsored by the Developing Areas Research Group (DARG).
The conference will be held at the Society in London and at Imperial College London, 27/08 to 30/09 2019.
Convenors:
Dr Deirdre McKay (Keele University, UK) and Dr Amanda Rogers (Swansea University, UK)
Sponsor: DARG
Cultural production is difficult to disentangle from its political context. Culture has long been instrumentalised to build nations, whether through colonialist representations of the ‘other’ or security-driven creative agendas. Creative methods and cultural production increasingly appear at the forefront of new modes of action, not only in marketing, opinion-shaping, but in collaborative research and development outreach.
Geographers working in collaboration with colleagues in the global South need to think carefully about the role creativity - broadly understood - plays in their research collaborations. Extending on Hawkins critical perspectives on the creative turn (2018), this panels explores the implications of creativity driven by interests in the global North in the experience of the global South. We ask:
What does it mean, in practice, to co-create research?
When academics, governments, and colleagues in the third and creative sector find themselves increasingly asked to engage research design focussed on creative processes and outcomes intended to deliver social impact, does this creativity work to decolonise research relationships? Or does the creative turn have a dark side (Cropley et al, 2010) generating new risks, expectations, obligations, and forms of bureaucracy to undermine equitable partnerships?
Could creative approaches to art, dance, theatre, film, sculpture, music and digital production be used to fuel inequality or justify authoritarian regimes? Who can harness ‘creative power’?
Do the processes and products of creativity drive some people apart and pull others together?
How are creative methods being called upon to interpret contested issues and antagonistic politics?
We invite panellists to reflect on the ways creative methods structure relationships and narratives in research and governance. This reflection could encompass co-created projects using innovative approaches to:
• film
• theatre
• art
• digital media
• dance
• photography
• exhibitions
• other creative formats
We especially encourage perspectives from scholars who have experience as research partners in institutions and charities from the Global South.
Cropley, David et al. (2010) The dark side of creativity. Cambridge.
Hawkins, Harriet (2018) Geography’s creative (re)turn: Toward a critical framework. Progress in Human Geography (early view) https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518804341
Abstracts of up to 250 words - mailto:[log in to unmask] by 13th February 2019.
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