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Zusatztext Craft Communities 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. Informationen zum Autor Susan Luckman is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries and Director of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at the University of South Australia. Her work is concerned with the intersections of creativity, place, making and technology. Nicola Thomas is Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research addresses craft geographies and situating contemporary and 20th-century craft practice within the broader creative economy. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Craft Communities explores the social groups that have developed around craft production, circulation and consumption, focusing on social media as a key driver of the 'Third Wave' of craft. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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-creat...
