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Crafting Co-ops in Denmark

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Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMaia Ebsen

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Craft and cooperative practices are resurgent across many European and North American societies. This book explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, venturing onto construction sites and into political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op. It shows how these builders forge distinct political sensibilities through their daily work - sensibilities that frame their social and political engagement with society at large. In doing so, it illuminates the political capacities of cooperative craftwork, and the practitioners’ complicated relationship with capitalist practices, which they simultaneously refuse, ridicule, and reproduce.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-15
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Antal sidor234
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781836956204

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List of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1. An Economy of Freedom: The Foundations of KLARChapter 2. Becoming Builders: Learning the Norms and Forms of “Good Craftsmanship”Chapter 3. The “Family” of KLAR: Generational Continuities and Ruptures in CooperativismChapter 4. Tinkering with Democratic Forms: Negotiating Cooperativism at AssembliesChapter 5. Crafting Against the Standardization of Construction: Reckoning with RegulationChapter 6. Tinkering with Capitalism: The Production of Value in Construction ProjectsConclusion: Taking Politics into One’s Own HandsReferencesIndex

"Based effectively on extensive participant-observation research, the virtue and value of the text lies in its detailed exploration of the entwined tensions that arise between the promise and the pitfalls of both craftwork and collectivism. While the builders at KLAR are idealists, they are also skeptics — and thus are engaging ethnographic subjects from whom the author, and readers, can learn a lot….In short, this is a strong work of ethnography." Heather Paxson, MIT Anthropology