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dc.contributor.authorHackney, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorDesmarais, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorMaughan, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-28T14:56:15Z
dc.date.available2016-10-28T14:56:15Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-12
dc.identifier.citationFiona Hackney, Hannah Maughan & Sarah Desmarais (2016) The Power of Quiet: Re-making Affective Amateur and Professional Textiles Agencies, Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 4:1, 33-62, DOI: 10.1080/20511787.2016.1256139en
dc.identifier.issn2051-1787
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/20511787.2016.1256139
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620244
dc.descriptionThis article is part of a special issue on textiles and intersecting identities. The article was developed from a paper given at the Association of Fashion & Textiles Courses (FTC) Conference, Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities (Glasgow School of Art, November 2015.
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice on 12/12/2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2016.1256139 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractThis article advocates an enlarged understanding of the benefits of manual creativity for critical thinking and affective making, which blurs the boundaries, or at least works in the spaces between or beyond amateur and professional craft practices and identities. It presents findings from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project: Co-Producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise (https://cocreatingcare.wordpress.com). CARE worked with community groups (composed of amateur and professional textile makers) in a variety of amateur contexts: the kitchen table, the community cafe, the library, for instance, to explore how critical creative making might serve as a means to co-produce community agency, assets and abilities. The research proposes that through ‘acts of small citizenship’ creative making can be powerfully, if quietly, activist (Orton Johnson 2014; Hackney 2013a). Unlike more familiar crafts activism, such ‘acts’ are not limited to overtly political and public manifestations of social action, but rather concern the micro-politics of the individual, the grass roots community and the social everyday. The culturally marginal, yet accessible nature of amateur crafts becomes a source of strength and potential as we explore its active, dissenting and paradoxically discontented aspects alongside more frequently articulated dimensions of acceptance, consensus and satisfaction. Informed by Richard Sennett’s (2012) work on cooperation, Matt Ratto and Megan Bolar (2014) on DIY citizenship and critical making, Ranciere’s (2004) theory of the ‘distribution of the sensible’, and theories of embodied and enacted knowledge, the authors interpret findings from selected CARE-related case studies to explicate various ways in which ‘making’ can make a difference by: providing a safe space for disagreement, reflection, resolution, collaboration, active listening, questioning and critical thinking, for instance, and offer quiet, tenacious and life-enhancing forms of resistance and revision to hegemonic versions of culture and subjectivity.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge (Taylor & Francis)
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20511787.2016.1256139
dc.subjectactivism
dc.subjectamateur
dc.subjectcraft
dc.subjectco-creation
dc.subjectcommunity
dc.subjecttextiles
dc.titleThe power of quiet: Re-making affective amateur and professional textiles agencies
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Textile Design Research and Practice
dc.date.accepted2016-10-31
rioxxterms.funderArts and Humanities Research Council
rioxxterms.identifier.project271016FH
rioxxterms.versionAM
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-06-12
dc.source.volume4
dc.source.issue1
dc.source.beginpage33
dc.source.endpage62
refterms.dateFCD2018-10-19T08:32:40Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2019-03-21T11:32:50Z
html.description.abstractThis article advocates an enlarged understanding of the benefits of manual creativity for critical thinking and affective making, which blurs the boundaries, or at least works in the spaces between or beyond amateur and professional craft practices and identities. It presents findings from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project: Co-Producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise (https://cocreatingcare.wordpress.com). CARE worked with community groups (composed of amateur and professional textile makers) in a variety of amateur contexts: the kitchen table, the community cafe, the library, for instance, to explore how critical creative making might serve as a means to co-produce community agency, assets and abilities. The research proposes that through ‘acts of small citizenship’ creative making can be powerfully, if quietly, activist (Orton Johnson 2014; Hackney 2013a). Unlike more familiar crafts activism, such ‘acts’ are not limited to overtly political and public manifestations of social action, but rather concern the micro-politics of the individual, the grass roots community and the social everyday. The culturally marginal, yet accessible nature of amateur crafts becomes a source of strength and potential as we explore its active, dissenting and paradoxically discontented aspects alongside more frequently articulated dimensions of acceptance, consensus and satisfaction. Informed by Richard Sennett’s (2012) work on cooperation, Matt Ratto and Megan Bolar (2014) on DIY citizenship and critical making, Ranciere’s (2004) theory of the ‘distribution of the sensible’, and theories of embodied and enacted knowledge, the authors interpret findings from selected CARE-related case studies to explicate various ways in which ‘making’ can make a difference by: providing a safe space for disagreement, reflection, resolution, collaboration, active listening, questioning and critical thinking, for instance, and offer quiet, tenacious and life-enhancing forms of resistance and revision to hegemonic versions of culture and subjectivity.


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