Skip to main content
Palgrave Macmillan

Creativity and Creative Industries in Regional Australia

Interconnected Networks, Shared Knowledge and Choice Making Agents

  • Book
  • © 2023

Overview

  • Analyses cultural and creative industries of the Hunter, offering a new theoretical view of its creative ecosystem
  • Presents the lived experience of creative workers involved in the art, design, media and information technology sectors
  • Offers a unique ethnographic study on creativity and cultural production in regional Australia and beyond

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)

  • 975 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (17 chapters)

Keywords

About this book

This book explores the relationship between creativity, creative people, and creative industries in regional Australia through examining lived experience. The authors draw on more than 100 qualitative interviews with creative workers, and contextualise this creative work within the broader social and cultural structures of Australia’s Hunter region (located north of Sydney, in New South Wales).

An invaluable resource for anyone interested in creative ecosystems as well as creativity and innovation, this book is an ethnographic study using the Hunter region as a case connected to the national and global networks that typify the creative industry. This timely addition to the Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture series gives a unique insight into creativity and cultural production.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Newcastle, Australia

    Phillip McIntyre

  • Bolwarra Heights NSW, Australia

    Susan Kerrigan

  • Whitebridge NSW, Australia

    Janet Fulton

  • Maitland NSW, Australia

    Evelyn King

  • Newcastle NSW, Australia

    Claire Williams

About the authors

Phillip McIntyre is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A communication and media scholar, his research focuses on creativity and innovation. 

Susan Kerrigan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Film, Games and Animation at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. An expert in the fields of creative practice and screen production, her research highlights creative agents and how their practices produce creative products that are culturally consumed.

Janet Fulton is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia. Her research interests include creativity and cultural production, journalism, journalism education, media entrepreneurship and work-integrated-learning. 

Evelyn King worked in schools and academia before tackling PR at the Australian Museum. She hasexperience in cultural and heritage tourism, economic development, smart city initiatives, renewable energy and business start-ups. 

Claire Williams is a writer and editor. Formerly Faculty Director Creative Industries at Hunter TAFE, she has also taught Communications, Information Studies and HR at tertiary level. She is also an actor and theatre director working in stage and film.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us