Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity

2017 | Art, Photography & Fashion

This book brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the key dimensions of geographies of making and craft, and the different understandings of 'making' therein. It explores the geographies of making practices from the body to the workshop and studio, and the wider socio-cultural, economic, institutional and historical contexts. The place of creative practices in 'making' geographies and worlds is considered, as well as the multiple lives of things in creatively re-working objects. Contributions examine how concerns around the body, matter and materiality have shaped geographer's interest in the geographies of making and how practices of making are also practices of 'making geographies', whether this be the shaping of subjects, knowledge or worlds. In exploring the key features of the 'geographies of making' this book offers a forum to consider the future directions of the field and calls to re-visit the politics of production. It will be of great interest to creative and cultural geographers, as well as those studying the arts, culture and sociology.

Laura Price (Author)

Harriet Hawkins (Author)