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Format: 1 online resource.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 1-350-12229-7 , 1-350-12228-9 , 1-350-12227-0

Content: "Throughout the 21st century, craft practices have garnered significant attention across the West, which these essays argue is a direct response to and critique of the economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s as a political opposition to the Industrial Revolution, Craft is Political contends that current craft activities are politically saturated when perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous ideology and even Western government policy are examined. Case studies consider craft and design in Turkey and craft markets in New Zealand to Indigenous practitioners in Taiwan and Finnish craft education"--

Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Re-crafting an unsettled world -- Craft and the Sustainment -- Craft as change agent -- Craft as care -- Overview of sections -- The essays: legacy, practice and world view -- Notes -- Part 1: Craft Legacy -- Chapter 1: Politics of tea furniture: Invention of ryuˉrei style in late-nineteenth-century Japan -- Introduction -- Kyoto and tea culture in hard times -- Ryūrei style at the Kyoto Exhibition -- Aftermath: The way of tea as Japanese philosophy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: (Dis)playing politics: Craft and the Caughnawaga Exhibition, 1883 -- Introduction -- The politics of the Caughnawaga Exhibition -- Kahnawà:ke land survey -- Louise Kon8aseti Laronde's silk patchwork quilt -- Curating politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Indigenous craft is political: Making and remaking colonizer-colonized relations in Taiwan -- Constructive ambiguities: 'indigenous' and 'crafts' -- Colonizing crafts in Taiwan: Japanese, nationalist and multiculturalist agendas -- Craft articulations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Coexistence of craft and design in Turkey as two separate epistemes -- Craft and design: vernacular versus industrial -- Turkey's craft history -- Craft and design in Turkey: product differentiation -- A dialogical and expert-expert learning bond -- An emotional bond -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Leisure and livelihood: A Socioeconomic reading of craft in Australia and Egypt -- The smallness of craft -- Sites of craft: the Tasmanian Craft Fair and Islamic Cairo -- Craftworker identity -- Craft socioeconomics: Australia -- Craft socioeconomics: Egypt -- NGOs and craft -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2: Craft Practice -- Chapter 6: The politics of craft and working without skill: Reconsidering craftsmanship and the community of practice. , Craftsmanship and the community of practice -- Working without skill in Oaxaca -- Notes -- Chapter 7: From 'making flowers' to imagining futures: Rohingya refugee women innovate a heritage craft -- Postcolonial contradictions and humanitarian work -- Rohingya and their current cultural condition -- Rohingya women: voiceless among the voiceless -- 'Making flowers': embroidery in Rohingya culture -- The tapestries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Liminality: The work of Monica Mercedes Martinez, PJ Anderson and Habiba El-Sayed -- Monica Mercedes Martinez -- PJ Anderson -- Habiba El-Sayed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Jewellery is political: Ethical jewellery practice -- Political messages in jewellery -- Jewellery materials -- Jewellery and fashion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Networks of economic kinship in Aotearoa New Zealand craft markets -- Introduction -- Setting the scene for craft markets and kinship ties -- Networks -- Craft markets in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Networks of encounter (spaces of production, distribution and consumption) -- Economic kinship - online -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11: It goes without saying: Craft talks politics -- Clay -- Glass -- Metal -- Wood -- Textiles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 3: Craft World View -- Chapter 12: Crafts as the political: Perspectives on crafts from design of the Global South -- Crafts and Pachamama -- Political crafts as chakana -- Alternate context -- EcoSophy and feel-think-design-do -- Revisiting crafts before crafts came to be -- Re-articulating worlds from the perspective of Andean philosophy -- For the vindication of the praxis of crafts as politics -- Notes -- Chapter 13: Chilean arpilleras: Hand-stitched geographies and the politics of everyday life in Santiago's poblaciones -- Economic violence and grassroots organization. , Arpilleras and the politics of social reproduction -- The afterlives of arpilleras -- Notes -- Chapter 14: From essential skill to productive capital: Perspectives on policies and practices of craft education in Finland -- Craft education in changing political climate -- Crafts in Finland's twenty-first century cultural policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Sincerity not authenticity: Craft's political path out of a modernist trap -- Ruskin Morris: authentic object, authentic life -- Trilling: authenticity ⇄ sincerity -- Authentic craft? Sincere craft! -- The politics of it all -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Bellwether: Fingerprinting your woollies -- Bellwether/belle weather/Lovely Weather -- Knowledge is only a rumour until it lives in the muscle7 -- Three bags full -- Making it visible -- A line into the future long enough to walk on10 -- To spin a revolution -- Fingerprint or footprint -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Author biographies -- Index. , Also published in print.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-350-12226-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.5040/9781350122291