At the limits of critical geography: Creative interventions into the exclusionary spaces of U.S. geography
In recent years, geographers have increasingly called for and enacted more sustained engagements between geography and the arts. This creative (re)turn represents both a renewed interest in recovering interdisciplinary practices within the history of the discipline and a desire to create
space for new methods and creative approaches. This article develops in response to two areas requiring further critical engagement and development within the creative (re)turn: questions about the place of identity in creative geographies and the potential for creative geographies to perform
critical interventions into disciplinary spaces and identities. I explore and develop these areas of concern alongside a discussion of a critical-creative geographies exhibit, The Critical Futures Visual Archive. Through a presentation of select works in this collection and a candid
discussion of the institutional obstacles encountered in curating it, I elaborate upon the challenges and critical potentials of integrating creative practices into geography as a form of feminist praxis.
Keywords: archive; art; creative (re)turn; creative geographies; curation; feminist praxis
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Geography, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Publication date: 02 December 2019
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