Cultural expression, creativity and innovation

✍ Scribed by Helmut K Anheier; Yudhishthir Raj Isar

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 489
• Series: Cultures and globalization series, 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the globalization 'game' there are no absolute winners and losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its contradictory movement and character. The essays and papers collected here offer, from a variety of perspectives, a rich exploration of creativity and innovation, cultural expressions and globalization. This volume of essays, in all their diversity of contents and theoretical perspectives, demonstrates the rich value of this paradoxical, oxymoronic approach' - Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Volume 3 of ''The Cultures & Globalization Series'', ''Creativity and Innovations'', explores the interactions between globalization and the forms of cultural expression that are their basic resource. Bringing together over 25 high-profile authors from around the world, this volume addresses such questions as: What impacts does globalization have on cultural creativity and innovation? How is the evolving world 'map' of creativity related to the drivers and patterns of globalization? What are the relationships between creative acts, clusters, genres or institutions and cultural diversity? The volume is an indispensable reference tool for all scholars and students of contemporary arts and culture Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Foreword by Stuart Hall Introduction --
Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Helmut K Anheier PART ONE: ISSUES AND PATTERNS IN CULTURAL EXPRESSION Creativity: Alternate Paradigms to the 'Creative Economy' --
Rustom Bharucha Recognition and Artistic Creativity --
f004 Joni Maya Cherbo and Harold L Vogel Walking with the Devil: Art, Culture and Internationalization --
Gerardo Mosquera ... But What Is the Question? Art, Research and the Production of Knowledge --
Gilane Tawadros Improvising in a World of Movement: Transit, Transition and Transformation --
MaruA!ka SvaA!ek Diasporic Spaces: Migration, Hybridity and the Geocultural Turn --
Keith Nurse Creativity and Intellectual Property Rights --
Jason Toynbee Exile, Culture and Identity --
Rasoul Nejadmehr The Creativity of Evil? --
Dragan Klaic The 'Creator' as Entrepreneur: An African Perspective --
Paul Brickhill The Turn of the Native: Vernacular Creativity in the Caribbean --
f004 Annie Paul Creative Contemporary Design in the Arab World --
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Cultural Policing South Asia: An Anti-Globalization Backlash against Freedom of Expression? --
Laurent Gayer, Christophe Jaffrelot and Malvika Maheshwari The Struggle to Express, Create and Represent in the Balkans --
Zala Volcic Creative Economy, Global City: Globalizing Discourses and the Implications for Local Arts --
Lily Kong The Cycles of Creativity in the Music Industry --
Peter Tschmuck Creative Communities and Emerging Networks --
f004 Clayton Campbell Creative Spaces --
Nancy Duxbury and Catherine Murray Literary Hybrids and the Circuits of Translation: the Example of Mia Couto --
Stefan Helgesson Emergencies in Digital Culture --
Ivani Santana Fashion and Ethics: Reinventing Models of Consumption and Creativity in a Global Industry --
Mo Tomaney and Julie Thomas Creativity and Innovation: the Role of Philanthropy --
Diana Leat Digital Networks and Social Innovation: Strategies of the Imagination --
Eugenio Tisselli Christopher Waterman Closing Reflections PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES Cultural Indicator Suites: An Introduction --
Helmut K Anheier and Michael Hoelscher Creativity Indexes --
Enrico Bertacchini and Walter Santagata Measuring Creativity and Innovation --
Michael Hoelscher Policy Regulatory Frameworks Intellectual Property Investment Education Philanthropy Research and Development Diversity Institutions Membership in Organizations Events Places: Indicators for six cities Migration Creativity and Hybridity Indices Hybridity Languages The Blogosphere Eco Trends and Innovation Music New and Syncretic Religions Dance Hip Hop Reality TV Body Art Web 2.0 Creativity, Innovation, Globalization: What International Experts Think --
Helmut K Anheier and Michael Hoelscher
Abstract:

The third of three edited texts in the Cultures and Globalization series, boasting a truly international set of contributors. Read more...