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... the commission, I would require a period of workshopping. And they said: “What does workshopping mean?” And I said: “Well, in South Africa, theatrically, we work in a workshop culture. You come with ideas and you formulate those ideas into muscled proposals that are defended on the creative floor. So...

..., and creativity. Crossing both axes, water is a key force, as metaphor, energy, and threat. Second, port cities are typically exceptional to the nations to which they pertain, frequently occupying the status of a “minor” city in any given national or regional imaginary, even while part of colonial...

.... Microfinance in particular foreshadows the future of finance capital, where trade in debt will require creative practices of converting hyper-risk into profit. These riskscapes are also formations of modernity. It is through encounters with poverty that the modern self is constituted. Such practices of liberal...

... to examine what Chinese maps of China can tell us about the Chinese people's hopes and fears, not only in the past or present, but for the future. This essay has two general aims: to demonstrate how China's current national maps have emerged through the creative tension of unbounded imperial domain...

... construction and human agency. Rarely, however, do we focus on construction not as a metaphor but as a con- crete human activity. While the terms social construction and human agency both point toward the study of creative activity, they tend to operate at a level of abstraction that seldom contains...

... ). First, agencies utilize juried award competitions to signal creative achievement and mitigate other measures of accountability; part of this process includes the continuous diversification of award categories that enable agencies to remove their work from the more rigid evaluative criteria of sales...

... relations. Simply put, Sahlins’s theory shows that a social being reflects culture. The second drawing (fig. 2) shows that an exceptional leader operates in a unique way. He knows the culture of the community but extends that cul- ture because he deals with movements which necessitate creative...

... ideology of doom for Africa? Ideologies do not define and inscribe the self. They are, instead, robes—or trappings—for the presentation of self. The demand for self- identification emerges in the creativity of empty spaces where ideological dis- courses have left their traces (cf. Bhabha 1994: 51–52...

... and explore what I refer to as “techno-vernacular creativity,” or TVC. TVC taps into the natural DIY inclinations of creative people as well as the educational power of inventing or making things using technology. This includes exploring the emergence of computation as a creative medium rather than as just...

... of social labor?” But a little earlier in the same text, Marx and Engels (1948: 12) declare that this astoundingly creative bourgeoisie “cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instru- ments of production.” This implies...

..., and ideological significance in the postperestroika period—known as the Special Period in Times of Peace—both creative labor and the cultural product became valued in relation to agents and processes outside the socialist state. This resulted...

... again began to create, and there was a lot of creative activity. But they didn’t know how to go about using ideas to reflect on society and the world. After 1985 was an especially lively time in the art world in China; there was a lot of activity, creativity, and experimentation. During...

...-exploration and self-realization were its primary concern. In this quest for the self, a high premium was placed on spontaneous expression, authentic expe- rience, and unfettered gratification of one’s creative and carnal urges. Imagination was an ally, and reason was an obstacle. There were no aesthetic...

... the various aspects of the craft, to develop a style which will serve as an accurate and artistic vehicle for his creative vision, and to reflect the problems and aspi- rations of several generations of his fellow-countrymen. Clearly the Nobel Prize places its winners into a fairly exclusive...

... environmental orientations have different emphases from those that pertain in the sciences. In these exchanges, I underscore two positive experiences I’ve had. One is my relationship to the sciences through teaching creative nonfiction in the master of fine arts program and the creative writing major here...

...; it remains a critical conceptual tool in any attempt to theorize the ongoing creative destruction of political- economic space under early twenty- first- century capitalism.12 As Lefebvre (2003 [1970]) recognized, this process of creative...

... the individual freedom and the vitality that comes from cultural creativity. These faults have made it easier for liberals to dismiss nationalism from their theories of democracy. But this has not made it less important in the real world...

... . New York: Faber and Faber. Keightley, Emily, and Michael Pickering. 2012. The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Kreiss, Daniel. 2012. Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama . New York...

... creativity embodied knowledge war posters labor-management relations Men and women who work with machines have good ideas . — War Production Board, War Production Drive: Official Plan Book The armchair is not just an unbecoming site in anthropology. There is armchair sociology, armchair...