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Crafty Impressions: The (New) Visual Culture of Contemporary Fibre Craft.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Crafty Impressions: The (New) Visual Culture of Contemporary Fibre Craft./
作者:	Black, Shannon A.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	196 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-06A.
標題:	Geography. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28768195
ISBN:	9798496553605

Crafty Impressions: The (New) Visual Culture of Contemporary Fibre Craft.
Black, Shannon A.

Crafty Impressions: The (New) Visual Culture of Contemporary Fibre Craft. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 196 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In recent years in the Global North, there has been an extraordinary resurgence of craft. Do-it yourself and domestic fibre-based arts and crafts have proliferated in homes, workshops and online. The pandemic has further extended these developments. Today, craft is practiced for its physical slowness, intrinsic rewards, creative expression and psychological benefits. Craft is also pursued as a form of paid work. This is particularly true for a growing number of middle-class, white women in Canada and the United States. Increasingly, many craft workers are turning to visual and digital mediums, such as photography, video, blogging and social media, in an effort to showcase their work, exchange creative and technical ideas, cultivate communities, and generate business opportunities. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach and focusing on the hand-knitting industry in Canada and the United States, this dissertation explores the ways in which photographs circulated on social media platforms are bound up in the creative and labour practices, subjectivities, bodies, affects and politics of particular craft workers. The research suggests as craft workers use visual and digital media for the purposes of cultivating creativity, income, communities and political solidarity, they are simultaneously caught up in broader techno-capitalist systems of power. These systems can create opportunities and pathways; they can also limit capacity to earn a secure and stable living, encourage the governing and surveillance of creativity, bodies and emotions, and facilitate the marginalization of transformative politics. Highlighting the ways in which the visual and material are not separate but conjoined, the case of the hand-knitting industry demonstrates how images circulated on social media platforms are bound up in networks of power that span across geography and time, and have important human, social, political and economic contexts and consequences. Adding empirical analysis to the ways in which images circulated on social media platforms do not just show things, but do things (Tolia-Kelly and Rose, 2012), this dissertation offers new perspectives on, and contributes to broader conversations about, visual culture, creative labour, platform economies and social justice, providing analysis on the interconnectedness of these systems, and how they relate to life both online and offline.

ISBN: 9798496553605Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Craft

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