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It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world.

This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world.

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike.

Introducing the first macro-sociological perspective on the concept of creativity this book includes a review of ten domains which have studied creativity. It also explores the results of a six-year on-going research project comparing students' ideas on creativity with employers' and industry professionals' views.

This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life ¿ usually edited out of traditional research papers ¿ can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in research life, the ¿detours¿, can potentially glean important results.The authors introduce the process of ¿writing-sharing-reading-writing¿ as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a culture in which ¿accountable¿ research methodologies involve adventurousness and an element of uncertainty. Written by scholars from a range of different fields, academic levels and geographic locations, this unique book will offer significant insight to those from a range of academic fields.

This groundbreaking Handbook brings together leading international experts in creativity and culture research to provide an overview of current debates.

Creative Collaboration in Teaching focuses on the question of how best to facilitate creative collaboration among students in the classroom setting-with a focus on music composition and from the perspective of social-cultural psychology.