Globalized Creative Economies Rethinking Local Craft, Provenance, and Platform Design
Can you recognize your friends’ and family members’ hand gestures? People have distinctive gestures: maybe your friend clasps her hands when she’s nervous, your mom taps her fingers together when she’s excited, or your cousin wags two fingers when making an argument. Now, imagine local artisans who...
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| Published in | Feminist Futures of Work Vol. 2; pp. 53 - 60 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
16.05.2023
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Can you recognize your friends’ and family members’ hand gestures? People have distinctive gestures: maybe your friend clasps her hands when she’s nervous, your mom taps her fingers together when she’s excited, or your cousin wags two fingers when making an argument. Now, imagine local artisans who handmake their wares. Their hand gestures are implicit in the production of an object. Creative labour is inherently embodied, requiring physical movements to produce a creation. By extension, this creation is unique to its maker’s body. Previous research has demonstrated the large role that embodiment plays in creative processes, whereby the artisan’s physicality |
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| ISBN: | 9463728384 9789463728386 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9789048556892-006 |