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Second CFP: Intersections of creativity: the geographies of creative industries and cultural practices. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington DC April 14-18, 2010 with apologies for cross-postings (session organizers Dr David Harvey, Dr Nicola Thomas and Dr Harriet Hawkins, School of Geography, University of Exeter, UK) This session seeks to provoke discussion between the cultural geographies of creative practices and products, and the economic and political geographies of the creative industries. Whilst there is much work on the creative sector across geography, in this session we aim to bring about a convergence of this research around conceptualisations of place. Cultural geographers have analysed the practices and products of artists, musicians, and other practitioners, exploring the relationships of their work to the spaces and places in which they are produced and consumed. In short, this research links the geographies within the works (engaging with concepts of identity,community, landscape etc.), with the geographies of the work's production, consumption and circulation. Alongside this research, economic and political geographers have focused attention on the spatialities of the creative industries (considering narratives of clusters and 'other geographies'), as well as thinking through the politics of creative labour and the changing geographies of governance within the sector. Furthermore, such narratives of placed and embedded cultural practice have been countered with discussion of the placelessness of the knowledge economy. In this session, we want to bring these different areas of the discipline together around the topic of creativity and place. We are looking for papers that explore the range, intensity and quality of the relationships between creative industries, cultural practices and place. We welcome papers that explore elements of and linkages between, the production, consumption and circulation of creative products. We are especially interested in papers that prompt reflection on the intersection of research on creative practices from across the discipline. Please direct expressions of interest and abstracts of not more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by Friday 16th October 2009. Please ensure that your abstracts meet the AAG requirements. See: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm