Craft is Political

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