Creative or Coercive?: Cities, Workspaces, and Business Anthropology in the Near Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Discourses and practices that situate creativity as a recipe for success in different domains and at different levels of social reality have had an increasingly global reach in the last few decades. Creativity has become the focus of managerial theories, self-help books, and experts whose goal is to help individuals, firms, cities, and nation-states all over the world harness creativity as a resource for boosting productivity and for creating value.