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Creative Practice Ethnographies focuses on the ways in which the collaboration between creative practice and ethnography offers new ways to think with and about the methods, practice and promise of research in contemporary interdisciplinary contexts. How does creative practice inform new ways of doing ethnography and vice versa? What new forms of expression and engagement are made possible as a result of these creative synergies? In sum, we pay particular attention to ways of being in the world that acknowledges creativity, complexities and multiplicities in research. In this book we seek to map why the intersection of ethnography and creative practice matters for doing socially impactful research. This book is aimed at interdisciplinary researchers from art, design, sociology, anthropology, games, media, education, and cultural studies. As interdisciplinary scholars with divergent creative practices who are constantly engaged in, with, and through the field, we are continuously searching through embodied practice ways of working with and reconfiguring the means and modes through which we do research. As such, our work operates at the intersection of ethnography and creative practice and we examine how they coalesce, overlap and interplay. In this book, we examine the doing of creative practice ethnographies through three interdisciplinary heuristics—techniques, translations and transmissions. It is via learnings from the field, in the form of interdisciplinary case studies, that we seek to provide insights into this productive synergy.

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Creative Practice Ethnographies maps the turn to social practice across the creative arts. Focused on the modes of ethnographic practice, this book is divided into sections that provide examples of applied research in the field, where collaborative, co-designed practice lends itself to the potentials of social change through creative methods. The economic matrix behind the social is recast as play, and the value of play is highlighted in the practice examples that provide an index for the breadth of societal changes and perception shifts brought about by the practice. This is a valuable text for teachers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to generate new forms of play as a social facilitator.--Felicity Colman, University of the Arts, London This very timely publication gives academics and students in the humanities and beyond a rich and strong framework to think about productive and innovative synergies between creative practice and ethnographic approaches. The authors have succeeded in writing a very clear and well-structured book that sets out the scope of creative practice ethnographies and their methodological implications. This book is particularly compelling as it shows how creative practice ethnographies 'work' through a series of case studies that are not only inspirational and analytical, but also center around core concerns in the field such as participation, performativity, embodiment, and materiality. Creative Practice Ethnographies is a must-read for researchers working in diverse areas, such as practice-based-research, game studies, critical geography, (post)digital studies, media anthropology, and gender studies.--Sybille Lammes, Leiden University

This very timely publication gives academics and students in the humanities and beyond a rich and strong framework to think about productive and innovative synergies between creative practice and ethnographic approaches. The authors have succeeded in writing a very clear and well-structured book that sets out the scope of creative practice ethnographies and their methodological implications. This book is particularly compelling as it shows how creative practice ethnographies 'work' through a series of case studies that are not only inspirational and analytical, but also center around core concerns in the field such as participation, performativity, embodiment, and materiality. Creative Practice Ethnographies is a must read for researchers working in diverse areas, such as practice-based-research, game-studies, critical geography, (post)digital studies, media anthropology, and gender studies.--Sybille Lammes, Leiden University Creative Practice Ethnographies maps the turn to social practice across the creative arts. Focused on the modes of ethnographic practice, this book is divided into sections that provide examples of applied research in the field, where collaborative, co-designed practice lends itself to the potentials of social change through creative methods. The economic matrix behind the social is recast as play, and the value of play is highlighted in the practice examples that provide an index for the breadth of societal changes and perception shifts brought about by the practice. This is a valuable text for teachers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to generate new forms of play as a social facilitator.--Felicity Colman, University of the Arts, London

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Larissa Hjorth is distinguished professor and director of the Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT University. Anne Harris is associate professor and vice chancellor’s principal research fellow at RMIT University. Kat Jungnickel is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Gretchen Coombs is postdoctoral research fellow in the Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT University.

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