Creativity from Suburban Nowheres

Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Ilja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, Michiel Dehaene, Ilja van Damme, Ruth Mcmanus

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-07-25
Mått156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Suburbanisms
Antal sidor277
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487508296

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List of Illustrations and TablesPrefaceContributorsPart I: Openings1. Rethinking Creative and Cultural Practices from the Outside in – An Interdisciplinary ExplorationIlja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene2. The Uncool Hunt: Searching for the Creative SuburbDavid GilbertPart II: The Suburban Home as Locus of Creativity3. "Pictures, Plants, and Ornaments": Jane Ellen Panton and Creative Practice in the British Victorian SuburbsSarah Bilston4. Battlegrounds of Taste and Distinction: Art and Antique Collectors in the Suburban Hinterland of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century BelgiumUlrike Müller and Ilja Van Damme5. The Art of Living in the Australian Suburb: Creative and Cultural Production at Home in Suburban Melbourne, 1910s–1960sSusan Reidy6. Ideal Homes and Haunted Houses: Twenty-First-Century Irish Suburban Art and WritingSimon WorkmanPart III: The Suburban Creative Milieu7. Halfway between Nature and Culture: Uccle Centre d’Art, a Colony of Artists in Brussels’s Suburbs in the Interwar PeriodTatiana Debroux8. Exploring Creativity in Dublin’s Suburbs, 1900–2000: Insider, Outsider, Bourgeois, or Bohemian?Ruth McManus9. Recreating Locality: Community and Identity in Budapest Suburbs, 1995–2020János B. Kocsis10. Creativity in Contemporary Housing Estate Neighbourhoods: The Case of Kontula, HelsinkiJohanna Lilius11. The Fung Bros Rep the EthnoburbMargaret Crawford12. Grounding Suburban LGBTQ+ Vernacular Creativities in the Toronto City-RegionAlison L. BainPart IV: Creating Suburbia13. From Artistry to Agency? Transactional Architecture for the Creative Fashioning of the Antwerp Suburbs in the Early Twentieth CenturyTom Broes and Michiel Dehaene14. Creating Suburbs in North America: A Mutual Blind SpotRichard Harris