{"product_id":"creativity-from-suburban-nowheres-rethinking-cultural-and-creative-practices-hardback-9781487508296","title":"Creativity from Suburban Nowheres; Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices (Hardback) 9781487508296","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCreativity from Suburban Nowheres\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRethinking Cultural and Creative Practices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIlja Van Damme (Edited by), Ruth McManus (Edited by), Michiel Dehaene (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487508296\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages, 24 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 9 b\u0026amp;w maps, 5 b\u0026amp;w figures, and 2 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking 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, \u003ci\u003eCreativity from Suburban Nowheres\u003c\/i\u003e displaces mainstream understandings of creativity and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnchored 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 \u003ci\u003edespite\u003c\/i\u003e its suburban location, \u003ci\u003eCreativity from Suburban Nowheres\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the emancipatory potential of suburbs for creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Openings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Rethinking Creative and Cultural Practices from the Outside in – An Interdisciplinary Exploration\u003cbr\u003eIlja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Uncool Hunt: Searching for the Creative Suburb\u003cbr\u003eDavid Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: The Suburban Home as Locus of Creativity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"Pictures, Plants, and Ornaments\": Jane Ellen Panton and Creative Practice in the British Victorian Suburbs\u003cbr\u003eSarah Bilston\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Battlegrounds of Taste and Distinction: Art and Antique Collectors in the Suburban Hinterland of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Belgium\u003cbr\u003eUlrike Müller and Ilja Van Damme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Art of Living in the Australian Suburb: Creative and Cultural Production at Home in Suburban Melbourne, 1910s–1960s\u003cbr\u003eSusan Reidy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Ideal Homes and Haunted Houses: Twenty-First-Century Irish Suburban Art and Writing\u003cbr\u003eSimon Workman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: The Suburban Creative Milieu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Halfway between Nature and Culture: Uccle Centre d\u0026amp;#x2019;Art, a Colony of Artists in Brussels\u0026amp;#x2019;s Suburbs in the Interwar Period\u003cbr\u003eTatiana Debroux\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Exploring Creativity in Dublin\u0026amp;#x2019;s Suburbs, 1900–2000: Insider, Outsider, Bourgeois, or Bohemian?\u003cbr\u003eRuth McManus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Recreating Locality: Community and Identity in Budapest Suburbs, 1995–2020\u003cbr\u003eJános B. Kocsis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Creativity in Contemporary Housing Estate Neighbourhoods: The Case of Kontula, Helsinki\u003cbr\u003eJohanna Lilius\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Fung Bros Rep the Ethnoburb\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Crawford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Grounding Suburban LGBTQ+ Vernacular Creativities in the Toronto City-Region\u003cbr\u003eAlison L. Bain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV: Creating Suburbia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. From Artistry to Agency? Transactional Architecture for the Creative Fashioning of the Antwerp Suburbs in the Early Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003eTom Broes and Michiel Dehaene\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Creating Suburbs in North America: A Mutual Blind Spot\u003cbr\u003eRichard Harris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595490783512,"sku":"9781487508296","price":42.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/creativity-from-suburban-nowheres-rethinking-cultural-and-creative-practices-hardback-9781487508296","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}