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Poetic world-writing in a pluriversal world: a provocation to the creative (re)turn in geography
journal contribution
posted on 2016-02-23, 14:55 authored by Clare Madge, G. EshunWe are creative souls. We have therefore embraced with relish the creative (re)turn in geog-
raphy (Hawkins,
2013
; Hawkins & Straughan,
2015
; Marston & de Leeuw,
2013
). However, in
this paper, we want to intervene in debates on this creative (re)turn to question how might
creative geographies become more attentive to a pluriversal world perspective (a perspec
-
tive in which many diverse worlds are valued and belong)? We are particularly interested in
approaching this question as active creative agents, using self-produced poetry to consider
this provocation. Bristow (
2015
) and Magrane (
2015
) have provided accounts of the various
uses of poetry in geography, while in previous publications, we have explored the potentials
of poetry to express an affective geopolitics (Madge,
2014
), as a form of embodied storytell
-
ing (Madge,
2016
) and as a postcolonial research tool (Eshun & Madge,
2012
). In this paper,
we want to expand these arguments to explore how poetry might provide further fresh
insights for the creative (re)turn in geography, particularly whether it might enable creative
geographies become more attentive to a pluriversal world perspective
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Citation
Social and Cultural Geography, 2016, 17 (6), pp. 778-785Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Geography/Human GeographyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)