The Craftivist Collective, mini-banner at London Fashion Week"craftivism:" a special issue of utopian studies (22.2)
 (September 2011: Published by Penn State University Press)

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Guest editors, Maria Elena Buszek (University of Colorado Denver)
and Kirsty Robertson (University of Western Ontario)

Coined by artists and collectives in the wake of the September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, the term “craftivism” relates to creative, traditional handcraft (often, assisted by high-tech means of community-building, skill-sharing, and action) directed toward political and social causes. For this special issue of Utopian Studies, we have invited practitioners, scholars, and curators to submit scholarship, criticism, and manifestos related to the history, criticism, and myriad practices of craftivism:

Maria Elena Buszek and Kirsty Robertson, "Introduction to Craftivism" 
- John Freeman Moir, "Crafting Experience: William Morris, John Dewey and Utopia"
- Jack Bratich and Heidi Brush, "Fabricating Activism: Craft Work, Popular Culture, Gender"
- Nicole Dawkins, "Do-It-Yourself: The Precarious Work and Postfeminist Politics of Handmaking (in) Detroit"
- Sarah Amato: "Fit to a T: Spray-on Clothing, Craft, Commodity Fetishism, and the Agency of Objects"
- Kristen Williams, "Contemporary Urban Craftivism and the Politics of 'Doing it Yourself' in Post-Industrial America"
- Erin Morton, "The Object of Therapy: Mary E. Black and the Progressive Possibilities of Weaving"
 Artists' Statements:
- Sarah Corbett and Sarah Housley, "The Craftivist Collective Guide to Craftivism"
- Travis Joseph Meinolf, "Common Goods"

Plus book and exhibition reviews...

Utopian Studies is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects related to utopias, utopianism, utopian literature, utopian theory, and intentional communities: http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/journal