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Creativity from Suburban Nowheres - Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices (Hardcover)
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Creativity from Suburban Nowheres - Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices (Hardcover)
Series: Global Suburbanisms
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Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and
thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea
that suburbs are sites of "ordinary," "mundane," and "everyday"
practices. Far from being geographies of "nowhere" – dull,
materialistic, and monotone – suburbs are unpacked as being
heterogeneous and historically layered places of living, work, and
creation. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from
Suburban Nowheres displaces mainstream understandings of creativity
and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs.
Contributors explore the particular forms of creativity that
suburbs elicit both in the process of their making,
materialization, and community construction, and in the myriad ways
in which suburbs are inhabited and experienced. They highlight
accounts of suburbs as places that give people the space and
latitude to shape individual and collective identities through
creative practices at odds with mainstream culture, and often
remote from the classic agglomeration "assets" associated with
inner cities. Anchored in historical and geographical research,
this volume highlights how and in what forms creativity should be
understood in the suburbs, why and when creativity can be found,
and how the notion of suburban creativity overthrows ingrained and
dominant normative viewpoints. Rather than seeing creativity arise
despite its suburban location, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres
illuminates the emancipatory potential of suburbs for creativity.
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Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Series: |
Global Suburbanisms |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Ilja Van Damme
• Ruth McManus
• Michiel De Haene
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
390 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4875-0829-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-4875-0829-8 |
Barcode: |
9781487508296 |
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