Craft and the Creative Economy

Susan Luckman is Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Locating Cultural Work (2012), and co-editor of Sonic Synergies (2008), an anthology on creative music cultures and the global economy.

• Introduction 1. Craft Revival: The Post-Etsy Handmade Economy 2. Crafts as Creative Industry 3. Material Authenticity and the Renaissance of the Handmade: The Aura of the Analogue (or 'The Enchantment of Making') 4. Craft Micro-Enterprise, Gender and Work–Life Relationships 5. 'Self-Making' and Marketing the Crafty Self 6. Craft Work and 'the Good Life': Creative Economic Possibilities 7. Conclusion - Craft Micro-Economies: More than 'Cool Capitalism'

"Craft and the Creative Economy ... considers the recent rise of craft and what obstacles and opportunities it presents for the contemporary cultural economy. ... It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars researching craft in areas including cultural studies, gender studies, economics and labour studies, cultural and economic policy and development, craft theorists. It will also make salutary reading for those engaged in a craft economy that this book forensically describes." (Catharine Rossi, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 22 (3), 2016)