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  • Craft Communities

    Edited by Dr Susan Luckman, Dr Nicola Thomas ...
    Craft Communities addresses the social groups, old and new, which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from yarnbombs to Shetlands shawls, brassware to paper crafting, in a variety of regional and national contexts, the contributors consider how craft ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Pathways into Creative Working Lives

    Edited by Stephanie Taylor, Susan Luckman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book presents research on pathways into creative work. The promise of ‘doing what you love’ continues to attract new entrants to the cultural and creative industries. Is that promise betrayed by the realities of pathways into creative work, or does a creative identification offer new personal and professional possibilities in the precarious contexts of contemporary work and employment? Two ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Craft Economies

    Edited by Dr Susan Luckman, Dr Nicola Thomas ...
    Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The New Normal of Working Lives

    Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment

    Edited by Susan Luckman, Stephanie Taylor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker subjects, and the privilege or disadvantage in play around gender, class, age and national location within the global workforce.Organised around the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy

    by Susan Luckman, Jane Andrew ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers, ... Read more

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  • Eco-Homes

    People, Place and Politics

    by Jenny Pickerill ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Events, Society and Sustainability

    Critical and Contemporary Approaches

    Edited by Tomas Pernecky, Michael Lück ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    The growth of the events industry brings with it concerns of sustainable management, the sharing of available resources, and ensuring that people and places are not over-exploited. While the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability have attracted a reasonable attention in the study of events, the social and cultural aspects of sustainability have been largely neglected. This book ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion

    Edited by Kate Fletcher, Mathilda Tham ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women’s independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Creative Hubs in Question

    Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy

    Edited by Rosalind Gill, Andy C. Pratt, Tarek E. Virani ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars and new voices. Looking across multiple sites trans-nationally, and combining theoretical and empirical reflections, it asks: what ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Design Roots

    Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices

    Edited by Stuart Walker, Dr Martyn Evans, Tom Cassidy, Jeyon Jung, Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd ...
    Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture

    Life from the Inside

    Edited by Dianne Smith, Marina Lommerse, Priya Metcalfe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on three pivotal themes — community engagement, social justice and cultural heritage. Each section has chapters that put forward the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD