Alyce McGovern

Craftivism and Yarn Bombing

A Criminological Exploration

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Critical Criminological Perspectives
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-57990-4
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781137579904
• ISBN-10: 1137579900
• Artikelnr.: 53594612

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
THE ITCH TO STITCH: YARN BOMBERS AND THEIR MOTIVATIONS 58
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