In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with 'innovation' in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.

MaruSka SvaSek is Reader in Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University, Belfast. Major publications include Mixed Emotions. Anthropology of Feeling (Berg 2005) Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012). She is co-editor of the Berghahn series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement
MaruSka SvaSek

Chapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design
Barbara Plankensteiner

Chapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity
Tereza Kuldova

Chapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan Baskets
Kala Shreen

Chapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India
Amit Desai

Chapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation
Arnd Schneider

Chapter 6. Positioned Creativity
Øivind Fuglerud

Chapter 7. 'We paint our way and the Christian way together'
Fiona Magowan and Maria Øien

Chapter 8. Undoing Absence through Things
MaruSka SvaSek

Chapter 9. 'The Eye Likes It'
Stine Bruland

Chapter 10. Narratives, Movements, Objects
João Rickli

Chapter 11. The Art of Imitation
Rhoda Woets

Afterword
Birgit Meyer

Index