Guest Editorial—Creative Geographies: tales from the ‘margins’

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Notes

1. Much has been written about the conflation of ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ in recent research in geography, urban studies and economics. For an overview of the debate about terminology and its effect on research practice, see Gibson and Kong (2005), Markusen et al. (2008) and O'Connor (2009). In this special issue, we concentrate especially on ‘creativity’ because of the broader intellectual debate about what comes to be understood as ‘creative’ outside major cities. That is not to say that ‘cultural industries’ is a redundant phrase—indeed, in many respects it is preferable to ‘creative industries’ because ‘culture’ signifies links to non-economic relations and is central to discourses shaping conditions and patterns of work (see Gibson 2003 for further discussion).