Alyce McGovern: Craftivism and Yarn Bombing

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Beschreibung

This book explores the use of handmade crafts as a vehicle for protest. Craftivism has experienced a resurgence in recent years, often in direct response to the social, environment and political concerns of those who engage in the practice. Acts of craftivism raise important questions for criminologists about the use of public space, power, and resistance. McGovern focuses on an example of the ¿craftivist¿ movement that has been steadily gaining momentum since the early to mid-2000s: yarn bombing. As an urban craft movement that melds the skills of knitting or crochet with the act of graffiti, yarn bombing has the potential to contribute to criminological understandings of graffiti and street art, particularly on issues of gender, perceptions of and motivations for graffiti, and the commodification of crime. Drawing on interviews with yarn bombers and craftivists, Craftivism and Yarn Bombing explores how such acts can be understood and explored through a criminological lens,and will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including criminology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, and urban studies.

Über den Autor

Alyce McGovern is Associate Professor in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Zusammenfassung

Redresses the omission of craftivism from criminological analyses of protest and direct action

Draws on ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with yarn bombers and craftivists

Analyses of a range of media texts and secondary data relating to craftivism

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF FIGURES

INTRODUCTION

THE RESEARCH PROJECT AND ITS AIMS

Yarn bombing and craftivism

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

UNRAVELLING THE THREADS: CONTEMPORARY CRAFTIVISM AND ITS ORIGINS

THE ORIGINS OF CRAFTIVISM

War craftivism

Anti-colonial and anti-slavery craftivism

Economic and anti-capitalist craftivism

Environmental and eco-craftivism

Health craftivism

Social justice craftivism

Gendered violence and bodily autonomy craftivism

THE LOGICS OF CRAFTIVISM

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DEFINING YARN BOMBING

THE ORIGINS OF YARN BOMBING

Controversies and criticisms

UNDERSTANDING YARN BOMBERS AND THEIR MOTIVATIONS

Making people smile, generating joy, and beautification

Reclaiming and softening of public space, rejecting commercialisation, and building communities

Raising awareness, memorialisation, and promoting communities

Making a statement, protest and championing change

CRAFT ATTACK: THE FRAMING OF YARN BOMBING

CRIME, CRIMINALITY AND LEGAL FRAMING OF YARN BOMBING

Framing yarn bombers: Destructive criminals or harmless knitters?

HOW YARN BOMBERS FRAME THEIR PRACTICE

Deviance, risk and subversion

Thrill-seeking, edgework and the carnival of crime

CRAFTY CRIMES: THE CRIMINOLOGY OF CRAFTIVISM

RESEARCH FINDINGS

REFERENCE LIST

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Strafrecht
Genre:	Importe , Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xv 122 S. 2 s/w Illustr. 13 farbige Illustr. 122 p. 15 illus. 13 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781137579904
ISBN-10:	1137579900
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-1-137-57990-4
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	McGovern, Alyce
Auflage:	1st edition 2019
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Alyce McGovern
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.08.2019
Gewicht:	0,303 kg