Book Chapter

Globalities & temporalities of artisanship: Lessons from an Indian wood art industry

Abstract

This chapter explores the increasing incorporation of the city’s artisanal traditions into global production networks, considers the ways in which production in the city intersects with globalised representations of ‘craft’, and – through an engagement with temporal contestations emanating from artisanal desires to exert a degree of control over work time – explores moments of contestation and resistance. In so doing, the chapter argues that representations of ‘craft’ as entrepreneurial, artisanal and independent can act to conceal particularised modalities of exploitation. However, it also shows how contemporary forms of structuring within craft sectors continue to contain moments of potentiality which emerge in relational, spatial and temporal contexts.

Authors

Chambers, Thomas

Oxford Brookes departments

Department of Social Sciences

Dates

Year of publication: 2024
Date of RADAR deposit: 2019-08-06

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Related resources

This RADAR resource is the Accepted Manuscript of Globalities and temporalities of artisanship: Lessons from an Indian wood art industry
This RADAR resource is Part of Creative economies of culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and performers [ISBN: 9781138492172] / edited by Anna Morcom and Neelam Raina. (Routledge, Dec. 2024).