Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity

This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars which explores the geographies of making and craft, and the different understandings of ‘making’. It traces the geographies of making practices from the body, to the workshop and studio, to the wider socio-cultural, economic, institutional and historical contexts. The place of creative practices in ‘making’ geographies and worlds is considered, as well as the multiple lives of things in creatively re-working objects. Contributions examine how concerns around the body, matter and materiality have shaped the geographer’s in the practices of ‘making geographies’, whether this be the shaping of subjects, knowledge or the world.

This book offers a forum to consider the future directions of the field and calls to re-visit the politics of production. It will be of great interest to creative and cultural geographers, as well as those studying the arts, culture and sociology.

Laura Price is a feminist cultural geographer. Her PhD thesis explored the geographies of knitting, gendered creativity and the role of materials in everyday lives. She is currently a writer of education resources at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) where she works with universities, schools and teachers to promote and share geographical learning. She is co-editor of Geographies of Comfort (Routledge, 2018).

Harriet Hawkins is based in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London where she works on the geography of art works and art worlds. She is committed to practice-based research and collaboration with artists and arts institutions and organisations. She is author of For Creative Geographies (Routledge, 2013) and Creativity: Live, Work, Create (Routledge, 2016), editor of Cultural Geographies and founder and co-Director of Royal Holloway, Centre for the GeoHumanities, where she is currently Professor of GeoHumanities.