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This chapter comprises three closely intertwined sections. In the first part, I turn to some conclusions, which have been driven from numerous scholarly observations at different times and contexts in Turkey. These primarily focus on the everyday understandings, but also some appearances, of creativity in the society addressing main topics that dominated the individual-oriented empirical research since the 1950s. The second part gathers some conceptual and disciplinary markers of the creativity discourse together with recently revitalized theoretical efforts which attempt to situate the concept of creativity as a collaborative activity in socio-historical and cultural psychological contexts. In the final section, I explore the various meta-theoretical and meta-psychological lenses I employ which might be used perhaps to (re)interpret the previous two sections as well as the rigid disciplinary habitus toward further transformations of our hegemonic knowledge-praxis.
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Gülerce, A. (2016). Conceptual and Conditional (Im)possibilities of Creative Theorizing of Creativity and Culture: Critical Reflections from Turkey Toward Globally Transformative Praxis. In: Glăveanu, V. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_21
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