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In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.
In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativ...
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Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012). She is co-editor of the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement.
Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of...
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