The politics of global craft / edited by D Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, D., editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decorative arts--Political aspects.

Decorative arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.

Summary:

"As climate change, war, social injustice, gender and racial inequality, unchecked technology and exploitative capitalism remain urgent issues, the worldwide craft community has responded in notable ways. In this follow-up to Craft is Political (Bloomsbury, 2021), D Wood and contributors demonstrate how global circumstances have given rise to additional craft scholarship that further interrogates the political agency of craft. With extensive global focus, this book features twenty-two essays on craft and politics that transcend the familiar Euro-American canon and demonstrate change through craft. Particular attention is brought to the Global South with authors writing about Brazil, Chile, India, Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria and Thailand. Chapters look at the erasure of Moroccan women weavers' stories and digital archiving of Black craftspeople in the USA. They explore pottery and eel pots critical to the identity of Virginian Indian tribes, and women's roles in Nigeria as depicted in ceramic art. One author reveals the revival of traditional practices in Laos, and another the increasing recognition of previously-maligned Sami people of Sweden. Essays also explore craft sustainment in Finland, hand loom weaving in colonial north India, women's craft organizations in Northern Ireland and an Australian textile artist's exhibition devoted to climate change grief. Craft by LGBTQ artists from Malaysia and Canada is included. The mix of essays is topical, enlightening and intended to be provocative of the political agency of craft." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Crafting Identity. Stitching resistance / Katya Zabelski ; The politics of Maria Vinka's Sami heritage within IKEA's commodities / Ezra Shales ; The politics of archives / Tiffany Momon ; The Irish Argricultural Organization Society's Home Industries Societies / Molly-Claire Gillett ; Coming out / Denis Longchamps

Community Craft. The political fabric of Amazigh rugs / Dina Benbrahim ; Craft in Laos / Linda S. McIntosh ; The convoluted politics of handloom weaving and weavers in Colonial North India / Santosh Kumar Rai ; Maked to be seen / Tamara Poblete ; The separation of art from craft in twentieth-century Thailand / Adulaya Hoontrakul

Craft Practice. Civil rights shaped in silver / Sebastian Grant ; Craft as a tool for individual and collective empowerment / Liliana Morais ; Crisis, craft, origins and their confluence in Omar Musa's poetry of identity / Kevin Brophy ; Generational baton / Ngozi Omeje ; A queer narrative / Simon Soon ; Future traditions / Sera Waters

Futuring Craft. Crafting the living cultural heritage in Finland / Sirpa Kokko ; Craft, authenticity and strategic essentialism in Virginia Indian communities / D. Brad Hatch ; Exile from the forest / Ishan Khosla ; Fogo Island / D. Wood ; Craft labour, entrepreneurialism and social class in contemporary Austrailia / Jesse Adams Stein.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1350433233

9781350433236

1350433195

9781350433199

1350433209

9781350433205

OCLC:

1520506730