Craft skills as enablers of care
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2025
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Luckman, S.
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Carr, J.A.
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Source details - Title: Designing through Planetary Breakdown: Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill, 2025 / Carr, J.A. (ed./s), Ch.3, pp.60-75
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Released during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Care Collective’s The Care Manifesto argues that communal structures of care are central to our communities and polities. Echoing other critiques of contemporary neoliberal capitalism, the manifesto contributed to wider debates that challenge the growth narratives driving not only our economic but also our socio-political lives. This chapter foregrounds craft skills as enablers of care, given the central role they play as the key point of contact, and impact, between humans and the environment. The importance of craft skills in facilitating more ethical ways of engaging with our everyday material worlds is highlighted. Ultimately, the chapter argues that the loss of craft skills is an increasing problem across the English-speaking countries of the Global North, poorly equipping these communities to enact changes towards more sustainable and caring material production demanded by the climate crisis.
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Copyright 2025 The author, published by Routledge
Access Condition Notes: This is an open access article-CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license