Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Nicola Thomas is Associate Professor in Cultural Historical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.
Susan Luckman is Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Australia.
<i>Craft Communities </i>brings together an exciting and international array of writers whose ideas and examples are of central importance for thinking about craft as a collective, generative experience. The themes and chapters provide much-needed explorations and insights to help readers think through and unravel some of the complexities of decolonising craft.
Professor Juliette MacDonald, Director of Faculty at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
<i>Craft Communities</i> gathers in one publication is a breadth of particular case studies that reveal the dynamism, but also the sheer complexity, of craft’s place in contemporary community building.
Jessica Hemmings. University of Gothenburg, Professor of Craft, Sweden
Introduction - Craft Communites: Continuity and discontinuity across time and place, Susan Luckman.
The commercial entanglements of craft communities
1. Do it yourself, with me: Workshops as a site of interaction between professional and amateur makers, Amy Twigger Holroyd.
2. ‘Out of time and out of money’: How handicraft tourism micro-entrepreneurs in Greece negotiate gender and economic roles in an economic crisis, Fiona Bakas
3. The Pleasures of Feminine Paper Crafting, Kathleen McCollough
4. Commodification, collection and community: Negotiating craft consumption and craft capitalism, Richard Yarwood
Craft communities in place
5. Innovation or preservation?: Craft’s post-capitalist identity crisis, Joanna Mann
6. A place-based approach to regional fiber economies, Oona Morrow
7. Walking as sisters: The social dimension of group-based craft production in the Peruvian Andes, Kathrin Forstner
8. Sri Lankan artistic brassware industry: A manifestation of local community values, Sri Rohana Rathnayake and Carl Grodach
9. Recognising craft and creativity as political governance innovation: Activating people and place through civic activism and creative enterprise, Clare Mouat and Bronwyn Adams
10. Make, do and mend: A patchwork economy of UK crafting for health, Sarah Desmarais
Activist craft communities
11. Better together: Co-creating living heritage, community assets and enterprise, Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo and Mary Loveday
12. Material girls: The intangible and tangible of women’s weaving groups in Australia, Kirsten McGavin and Hannah Swee
13. Crafting employment for marginalized women: The remaking of social enterprise, Mia Hunt
14. The craft of reuse: Making communities at charity secondhand shops, Melisa Duque and Aneta Podkalicka
15. Crafting asylum: Text, textiles and asylum seekers in detention, Margaret Mayhew
Craft communities online
16. Disposition and taste: DIY craft's star system, cultural intermediaries and the influence of Etsy, Jacqueline Wallace
17. New geographies of domesticity: Work, space and community in the virtual arts and crafts, Shannon Black, Chloe Fox Miller and Deborah Leslie
18. Media practices and social arrangements on DaWanda: Reflections on the appropriation of a social commerce platform, Dagmar Hoffmann and Wolfgang Reißmann
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Nicola Thomas is Associate Professor in Cultural Historical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.
Susan Luckman is Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Australia.