Overview
- Redresses the omission of craftivism from criminological analyses of protest and direct action
- Draws on ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with yarn bombers and craftivists
- Analyses of a range of media texts and secondary data relating to craftivism
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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About this book
This book explores the use of handmade crafts as a vehicle for protest. Craftivism has experienced a resurgence in recent years, often in direct response to the social, environment and political concerns of those who engage in the practice. Acts of craftivism raise important questions for criminologists about the use of public space, power, and resistance. McGovern focuses on an example of the ‘craftivist’ movement that has been steadily gaining momentum since the early to mid-2000s: yarn bombing. As an urban craft movement that melds the skills of knitting or crochet with the act of graffiti, yarn bombing has the potential to contribute to criminological understandings of graffiti and street art, particularly on issues of gender, perceptions of and motivations for graffiti, and the commodification of crime. Drawing on interviews with yarn bombers and craftivists, Craftivism and Yarn Bombing explores how such acts can be understood and explored through a criminological lens,and will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including criminology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, and urban studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alyce McGovern is Associate Professor in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Craftivism and Yarn Bombing
Book Subtitle: A Criminological Exploration
Authors: Alyce McGovern
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57991-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Limited, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57990-4Published: 30 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57991-1Published: 19 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 122
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime and the Media, Criminological Theory, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Political Sociology, Culture and Gender, Urban Studies/Sociology