Creativity A New Vocabulary proposes a novel approach to the way in which we talk and think about creativity. It covers a variety of topics not commonly associated with creativity that offer us valuable insights and open up new and exciting possibilities for creative action. This collection of essays challenges the 'traditional' vocabulary of creativity and its preference for individuals, brains, cognition, personality, divergent thinking, insight, and problem solving. Instead, the book proposes a more dynamic and relational perspective that considers creativity as an embodied, social, material, and cultural process. This book will be useful for a wide range of specialists within the humanities and social sciences, as well as practitioners from applied fields who are looking for novel ways of thinking about and doing creative work.

"A provocative and unique contribution to the field of creativity studies. If you're interested in creativity, keep this book close at hand. I know I will!" - Ronald A. Beghetto, Editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA

"One of the biggest challenges facing creativity researchers is the lack of a common language across fields. People in business, psychology, and education study very similar issues but are often unaware of related work. It is easy to switch terms between creativity, imagination, and innovation, but a real solution requires more work. What this essential volume does is to explore core ideas (such as language or memory or power) that span fields and disciplines and discuss how they relate to creativity. This book is not just for people interested in creativity research it is for anyone interested in how science can grow and evolve." - James C. Kaufman, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA

Autorentext

Vlad Petre Gl?veanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark, and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Université Paris Descartes, France, and the Department of Psychology and Education, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Recent books include: Distributed Creativity and Rethinking Creativity (co-edited with Alex Gillespie and Jaan Valsiner).

Lene Tanggaard is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark, where she serves as director of the QS-research group and co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies. Recent books include: Twice the Fun A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and their Supervisors (with C. Wegener) and Fooling Around: Creative Learning Pathways.

Charlotte Wegener is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Recent articles include: 'Would You Like a Cup of Coffee?' Using the Researcher's Insider and Outsider Positions as a Sensitizing Concept and Writing with Phineas. How a Fictional Character from A. S. Byatt Helped Me Turn my Ethnographic Data into a Research Text.

Inhalt
The Importance of Being a Vocabulary; Jaan Valsiner

1. Why Do We Need a New Vocabulary for Creativity?; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu, Lene Tanggaard and Charlotte Wegener
2. Affordance; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
3. Business as Usual; Kristian Dahl and Lene Tanggaard
4. Craft; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
5. Difference; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
6. Fear; Luca Tateo
7. Language; Carolin Demuth and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
8. Lostness; Charlotte Wegener
9. Memory; Brady Wagoner and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
10. Mess; Lene Tanggard and Tue Juelsbo
11. Mirroring; Charlotte Wegener
    12.Pathways; Lene Tanggard
12. Perspective; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
13. Power; Claus Elmholdt and Marten Fogsgaard
14. Reflexivity; Constance de Saint-Laurent and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
15. Rhythm; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
16. Rules; Tues Juelsbo
17. Space; Nikita A. Kharlamov
18. Stumbling; Lene Tanggaard
    20 Things; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
    21 Translation; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu
19. Upcycling; Charlotte Wegener