Conceptual and Conditional (Im)possibilities of Creative Theorizing of Creativity and Culture: Critical Reflections from Turkey Toward Globally Transformative Praxis

Abstract

In this chapter, I will proceed by breaking my holistic thoughts into three main parts. In the next section, I expectedly will serve from within the assigned role of a 'local reporter' from Turkey, I will blend my accumulated observations responding to some questions that dominate the past/present empirical studies. In the following second section, I will offer some overall reflections by primarily focusing on theoretical efforts in the area of creativity and culture, including recent sociocultural critiques of the conventional/mainstream discourse. My perspectival perspective is inherently intertwined with my 'metatheoretical' positions and problematizations in transdisciplinary knowledge-practices. So I think such dialogically distantiated tone in both sections would prepare for my then foregrounding of the issue of glocalization (the simultaneously intertwined process of globalization and localization) of Psychology as (re)viewed from Turkish soils. I will further serve as a 'global interpreter' while negotiating various discursive voices heard throughout this writing. Thus, I expect that my reasons to show more interest in the creativity of and within Psychology in general than the psychology of and for creativity in particular will become clear. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)