Making bodies, craft skills and the legacies of policy 'blokeism'
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2023
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Luckman, S.
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Continuum, 2023; 37(5):595-607
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Drawing upon over a decade of research into craft and craft skills in Australia, this article identifies the skills challenges growing within the Australian making ecosystem. Bringing together qualitative and quantitative research findings, it finds that one sector, building and construction, dominates the occupational landscape, at the expense of a richer, more diverse and future-ready skills base. The article argues that what, why and how we make, or how we support making through our consumption decisions, is one of the key ethical challenges facing us today, and one that requires major cultural shifts. Therefore, re-imagining, re-forming and revolutionizing our relationships to the cultures, and thus practices, of making is thus one of the core challenges facing the world today, and one, following Haraway that cultural studies thus needs to stay with the trouble of.
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Copyright 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Access Condition Notes: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.