Craft Communities

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.

Craft Communities 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.

• Introduction - Craft Communites: Continuity and discontinuity across time and place, Susan Luckman.The commercial entanglements of craft communities1. 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 Bakas3. The Pleasures of Feminine Paper Crafting, Kathleen McCollough 4. Commodification, collection and community: Negotiating craft consumption and craft capitalism, Richard YarwoodCraft communities in place5. Innovation or preservation?: Craft’s post-capitalist identity crisis, Joanna Mann6. 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 Forstner8. Sri Lankan artistic brassware industry: A manifestation of local community values, Sri Rohana Rathnayake and Carl Grodach9. Recognising craft and creativity as political governance innovation: Activating people and place through civic activism and creative enterprise, Clare Mouat and Bronwyn Adams10. Make, do and mend: A patchwork economy of UK crafting for health, Sarah DesmaraisActivist craft communities11. Better together: Co-creating living heritage, community assets and enterprise, Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo and Mary Loveday12. 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 Hunt14. The craft of reuse: Making communities at charity secondhand shops, Melisa Duque and Aneta Podkalicka15. Crafting asylum: Text, textiles and asylum seekers in detention, Margaret MayhewCraft communities online16. Disposition and taste: DIY craft's star system, cultural intermediaries and the influence of Etsy, Jacqueline Wallace17. 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 FiguresList of Contributors