- 232 pages
- English
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Craft Communities
About this book
Craft Communities addresses the social groups, old and new, which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from yarnbombs to Shetlands shawls, brassware to paper crafting, in a variety of regional and national contexts, the contributors consider how craft practices operate collectively in the home, communities, businesses, workshops, schools, social enterprises, and online. It further identifies how social media has emerged as a key driver of the 'Third Wave' of craft. From Etsy to Instagram, Twitter to Pinterest, online communities of the handmade are changing the way people buy and sell, make and meet.
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Yes, you can access Craft Communities by Susan Luckman, Nicola Thomas, Susan Luckman,Nicola Thomas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Conception & Histoire et critique de la conception. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Craft communities: Continuity and discontinuity across time and place
- Part I The commercial entanglements of craft communities
- 1 Do-it-yourself, with me: Workshops as a site of interaction between professional and amateur makers
- 2 ‘Out of time and out of money’: How handicraft tourism Âmicro-entrepreneurs in Greece attain sustainability in an economic crisis
- 3 The pleasures of feminine paper crafting
- 4 Commodification, collection and community: Negotiating craft consumption and craft capitalism
- Part II Craft Âcommunities in place
- 5 Innovation or preservation?: Craft’s post-capitalist identity crisis
- 6 A place-based approach to regional fibre economies
- 7 Walking as sisters: The social dimension of group-based craft production in the Peruvian Andes
- 8 Sri Lankan artistic brassware industry: A manifestation of local community values
- 9 Recognizing craft and creativity as political governance innovation: Activating people and place through civic activism and creative enterprise
- 10 Make, do and mend: A patchwork economy of UK crafting for health
- Part III Activist craft communities
- 11 Better together: Co-creating living heritage, community assets and enterprise
- 12 Material girls: The intangible and tangible of women’s weaving groups in Australia
- 13 Crafting employment for marginalized women: The remaking of social enterprise
- 14 The craft of reuse: Making communities at charity second-hand shops
- 15 Crafting asylum: Text, textiles and asylum seekers in detention
- Part IV Craft communities online
- 16 Disposition and taste: DIY craft’s star system, cultural intermediaries and the influence of Etsy
- 17 New geographies of domesticity: Work, space and community in the virtual arts and crafts
- 18 Media practices and social arrangements on DaWanda: Reflections on the appropriation of a social commerce platform
- Index
- Copyright