Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781138238749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Laura Price; Harriet Hawkins

Opis

This book brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the key dimensions of geographies of making and craft, and the different understandings of 'making' therein. It explores the geographies of making practices from the body to the workshop and studio, and the wider socio-cultural, economic, institutional and historical contexts. The place of creative practices in 'making' geographies and worlds is considered, as well as the multiple lives of things in creatively re-working objects. Contributions examine how concerns around the body, matter and materiality have shaped geographer's interest in the geographies of making and how practices of making are also practices of 'making geographies', whether this be the shaping of subjects, knowledge or worlds. In exploring the key features of the 'geographies of making' this book offers a forum to consider the future directions of the field and calls to re-visit the politics of production. It will be of great interest to creative and cultural geographers, as well as those studying the arts, culture and sociology.

Spis treści

1: Towards the geographies of making: An introduction 2: Making bodies, making space and making memory in artistic practice 3: Moonraking in Slaithwaite: Making lanterns, making place 4: Modernity, crafts and guilded practices: Locating the historical geographies of 20th century craft organisations 5: Unpicking the material politics of sewing for development: Sex, religion and women’s rights 6: Work, value and space: Three key questions of making for the Anthropocene 7: The science and the art of making: Bartenders, distillers, barbers, and butchers 8: Transient productions; enduring encounters: The crafting of bodies and friendships in the hair salon 9: Entangled corporeality in the making of taxidermy 10: Knitting the atmosphere: Creative entanglements with climate change 11: A sustainable future in the making? The maker movement, the maker-habitus and sustainability 12: Everyday Kintsukuroi: Mending as making 13: Re-lighting the Castle Argyle: Making, restoration, and the biography of an immobile thing 14: Geographies of making: Matter, transformation and care