Trickle down innovation? Creativity and innovation at the margins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine J Frieman (0000-0002-9030-4483, Australian National University, corresponding author), James Lewis (0000-0002-8603-2761, Indepedent Scholar), James D Lewis (0000-0003-3107-3862) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 723-740 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2021.2014948 |
| OpenAlex | W4283378147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 73 |
This paper explores the entanglement of the innovation discourse with discourses of power. Innovation is a frequent topic of archaeological research, but its implications for how we understand flows of power between individuals, groups, and regions has seen little attention. Here, we argue that our innovation narratives often blindly reproduce hierarchical relations which place dynamic cores in positions of power over their more passive peripheries and margins. In doing so, they obscure the complex and creative processes which occur in these marginal zones. We illustrate this discussion with an exploration of southwestern Britain and the resilience of people living at the margins of the Roman world. We argue that more attentiveness to these creative margins allows us to challenge the flattening hierarchies embedded in traditional innovation narratives, creating space for more complex and multi-layered stories of past innovation
Aesthetics · Art · Creative destruction · Creativity · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Neoclassical economics · Power (physics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology · Social Psychology
World-systems theory in practice
Communication of innovations
Innovation diffusion as a spatial process.
The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Adaptors and innovators
Innovation in the Periphery
Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record
Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters, and the Knowledge Economy
Machines as the Measure of Men
From Treasured Items to Trash? The Use of Brooches in Roman Cornwall in the Creation of Identity and Social Memory
Population, Culture History, and the Dynamics of Culture Change
Cultural Stasis and Change in Northern North America
Innovation Contested
What Would a Bronze-Age World System Look Like? Relations Between Temperate Europe and the Mediterranean in Later Prehistory
The Roman Villa at Magor Farm, Near Camborne, Cornwall
Reassembling the Social
Frontiers and Boundaries in Archaeological Perspective
The study of material culture today
The Oxford Handbook of Innovation
Are cities the font of innovation? A critical review of the literature on cities and innovation
Salt marsh synthesis
Navigating Contact
The world-systems perspective and archaeology
Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies
An Excavation at St. Mawgan-in-Pyder, North Cornwall
Metropolitan’ and ‘Parochial’/‘Core’ and ‘Periphery’
Farming Regions in Medieval England
Objects and Identities
Bronzization
Thinking about Roman Imperialism
The Other Side of the Tamar
Creativity
Material agency
Creativity/Anthropology
Frontiers and Mobilities
Creolization and Its Discontents
The Atlantic Iron Age
Elements for an Anthropology of Technology
The Frontier Zone
Demography and Cultural Innovation
What Do Objects Want
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology
Actor-Network Theory and methodology
Mapping Experiment as a Learning Process
Creolizing the Roman Provinces
Towards an archaeology of pedagogy
Symmetrical archaeology
Archaeology and world-systems analysis
Cutting the Network
Fetishised Objects and Humanised Nature
From Passive Periphery to Active Agents
Brexit, boundaries and imperial identities
Theorizing from the Borders
Borders and Bordering
The Magical Virtue of These Sharp Things
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Mediating Role of Implicit Theories of Innovativeness in the Relationship Between Values and Attitudes Toward Innovation
Integrating Models of Diffusion of Innovations
Social Anthropology of Technology
Phatic labor, infrastructure, and the question of empowerment in Cairo
Archaeology and World-Systems Theory
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |