ABSTRACT

This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars to explore the geographies of making and craft. It traces the geographies of making practices from the body, to the workshop and studio, to the wider socio-cultural, economic, political, institutional and historical contexts. In doing so it considers how these geographies of making are in and of themselves part of the making of geographies. As such, contributions examine how making bodies and their intersections with matter come to shape subjects, create communities, evolve knowledge and make worlds.

This book offers a forum to consider future directions for the field of geographies of making, craft and creativity. It will be of great interest to creative and cultural geographers, as well as those studying the arts, culture and sociology.

chapter 1|30 pages

Towards the geographies of making

An introduction

chapter 3|16 pages

Moonraking in Slaithwaite

Making lanterns, making place

chapter 4|18 pages

Modernity, crafts and guilded practices

Locating the historical geographies of 20th century craft organisations

chapter 5|16 pages

Unpicking the material politics of sewing for development

Sex, religion and women’s rights

chapter 6|14 pages

Work, value and space

Three key questions of making for the Anthropocene

chapter 7|19 pages

The science and the art of making

Bartenders, distillers, barbers, and butchers

chapter 8|17 pages

Transient productions; enduring encounters

The crafting of bodies and friendships in the hair salon

chapter 10|16 pages

Knitting the atmosphere

Creative entanglements with climate change

chapter 11|21 pages

A sustainable future in the making?

The maker movement, the maker-habitus and sustainability

chapter 12|18 pages

Everyday Kintsukuroi

Mending as making

chapter 13|18 pages

Re-lighting the Castle Argyle

Making, restoration, and the biography of an immobile thing

chapter 14|10 pages

Geographies of making

Matter, transformation and care