ABSTRACT
This book takes a critical approach to the intersectional study of creativity, religion, and cultural practices, based in the rich youth cultures of Samoan and South Sudanese Australians. In it I also recognise the historicity of such enquiries, buried as they are in changing notions of culture, gender, spirituality, and especially these days, creativity. I draw heavily on Appadurai’s scapes, his capacity to aspire and attention to global flows, and his social imaginary, an extension of Anderson’s imagined communities-all of which I thread through my notion of creative imaginaries.
