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Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and
making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive
focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing
exponentially as a result of online shopfronts and home-based
micro-enterprise, 'mumpreneurialism' and downshifting, and renewed
demand for the handmade.
This book builds upon the ground-breaking work already undertaken
by the author filling the absence of research into the
significance, character and value of creative industries beyond
major urban centres. What has emerged in this work is the specific
centrality of place, time and the natural environment to the
creative practice of those who have chosen or found themselves
operating outside the mainstream of urban creative milieus. Unlike
any existing book in the market, Locating Cultural Work uniquely
examines creative workers in terms of three interlinked concerns:
the wider history of creativity and place in the UK since the
Industrial Revolution (in particular the Romantics and the Arts and
Craft Movement, especially as manifest in the Lake District and
Cotswolds); the emotional-affective-drivers of creativity and
place; and, the relationship between rural and regional cultural
industries, tourism and environmental awareness.
Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and
making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive
focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing
exponentially as a result of online shopfronts and home-based
micro-enterprise, 'mumpreneurialism' and downshifting, and renewed
demand for the handmade.
Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the
UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences
of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and
how this sits within local economies and communities.
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