ABSTRACT
The discipline of geography has been described as going through a 'creative (re)turn' that has evolved from the study of creative products such as art works, novels, music and films in cultural geography, to the adoption of creative practices such as writing, curating, film-making and art in all its forms, which offer 'a particular methodological value' for geographers. This shift to the incorporation of creative methods is largely due to debates around issues such as non-representational theory, performativity and phenomenology, along with shifts within qualitative social science research methods in general which, rather than attempting to reveal certainty or truth, adopt an embodied, open and reflexive stance in relation to interpreting the complexity of the world. The potential offered by text is of concern to some geographers and in their study of creative writing, Brace & Johns-Putra, suggest that the practice of crafting a text is performative.
