Introduction - Crafting Socialities: Social Media, Community and Alternative Economies of the Handmade, Nicola Thomas, University of Exeter, UK and Susan Luckman, University of South Australia, Australia.
Craft and Social Media
1. A Handmade Life: Crafts Habitus, Etsy and the Constraints of a Corporatized Model, Jacqueline Wallace, Concordia University, Canada.
2. The Mediatization of Craft Cultures: Rules of Communication and Social Arrangements on DaWanda, Dagmar Hoffmann, University of Siegen, Germany and Wolfgang Reissmann, University of Siegen, Germany.
3. Experiencing Craft: Handmaking in the Experience Economy, Doreen Jakob, University of North Carolina, USA and University of Exeter, UK.
4. The (new) geographies of domesticity: work, space and subjectivity in (virtual) domestic arts and crafts, Shannon Black, Chloe Fox and Deborah Leslie, all University of Toronto, Canada.
Crafting Communities and Social Capital
5. Better Together. Transitioning Participants into Producers: Co-creating a Community Crafts Micro-enterprise, Fiona Hackney, Falmouth University, UK and Deirdre Figueiredo, Craftspace, UK.
6. Material Girls: The Intangible and Tangible of Womens Weaving Groups in Australia, Kirsten McGavin, University of Queensland, Australia and Hannah Swee, University College London, UK.
7. Economies of Agency, Connection and Enchantment: Health-- and Wellbeing--oriented Crafts Groups in the Community and Primary Care, Sarah Desmaris, designer maker, arts facilitator and psychotherapist, UK.
The Contemporary Politics of Craft Heritage
8. Crafting the past, Making the future: unpacking the politics of heritage in contemporary craft practice, Nicola Thomas, University of Exeter, UK.
9. A Natural History of the Shetland Shawl: The Evolution of Skilled Practice, Joanna Mann, University of Bristol, UK.
10. Invented exoticism: Ambiguity in an individuals cultural interpretation, Choi Keeryong, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Ethics, Activism and Craft
11. Crafts as an assemblage point for post-Soviet solidarities, Zinaida Vasilyeva, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
12. Cleaving a political economy of craft: hooking into the power of yarn--bombs, hyperbolic crochet, and cradle games, Clare Mouat, University of Western Australia, Australia.
13. Crafting Asylum: Text, Textiles and the Gift Economy, Margaret Mayhew, academic and artist, Australia.
14. Knit local, what can slow fashion learn from local food? Oona Morrow, Clark University, USA.
The Passionate Materialities of Crafting
15. Do it yourself, with me: Workshops as a site of interaction between professional and amateur makers, Amy Twigger Holroyd, University of Leeds, UK.
16. Illicit and Irritating: The Personal Materials of Craft, Kathryn Lichti-Harriman, University of Aberdeen, UK.
17. Scrapbooks Move from Memory Keeping to Paper Crafting, Kathleen McCollough, Rutgers University, USA.
18. The Crafty Economy: Making Capital from Making Things, Richard Yarwood, Plymouth University, UK.
Craft, Austerity and Alternative Economies
19. From recycling to upscaling: Cultural and economic value of material transformations, Aneta Podkalicka, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Australia.
20. The effect of an economic crisis on the craft economys sustainability: Handicraft tourism micro-entrepreneurs in Greece, Fiona Bakas, Aveiro University, Portugal.
21. Keep calm and craft: Geographies of austerity, crafting and caring in contemporary cultures of dressmaking, Sarah Marie Hall and Mark Jayne, both University of Manchester, UK.
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