[ecrea] CFP: Crafting, Hacking, and Making: DIY Pasts, Presents, and Futures, Edited by Melanie Swalwell, David Murphy, and Maria B. Garda

*CFP: Crafting, Hacking, and Making: DIY Pasts, Presents, and Futures*

Edited by Melanie Swalwell, David Murphy, and Maria B. Garda

A burgeoning interest in do-it-yourself production is evident around the 
world, especially in regions that manufacturing industries have 
abandoned. But while the contemporary Maker Movement would like us to 
accept its revolutionary-inspired rhetoric of rupture and discontinuity 
(Hatch 2014), we believe that the current enthusiasm for do-it-yourself 
production is not without precedent. Existing on the peripheries of 
industrial production, crafting, hacking, and making movements have 
emerged in different historical moments and localities in various 
political and cultural contexts. But instead of inciting comparative 
analysis, movements have often been defined in opposition to ‘passive’ 
forms of consumption that a do-it-yourself ethos resists. By contrast, 
we would like to encourage analyses attending to the diversity of 
crafting, hacking, and making practices, and intersections and 
variations that entangle and distinguish communities, networks, and 
scenes, so an appreciation of similarities and differences can add new 
perspectives to the discourses surrounding the DIY phenomena.

Furthermore, it is clear that important practices have been excluded 
from a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics discourse that 
is often blind to cultural difference on the one hand, and a Cultural 
and Media Studies discourse that is often unwilling or unprepared to 
deal with engineering on the other. Existing within this gap is an 
opportunity to bring forgotten histories into conversation with 
present-day practices—and an opportunity to examine contemporary and 
historic intersections where the analogue and the digital overlap—as 
hacking-inspired methods are no longer specific to digital culture 
(Cramer, 2014), while digital culture is reigniting an interest in craft 
(Luckman, 2015). These shifts invite criticism and optimism and a chance 
to reflect on the significance (or insignificance) of DIY acts, while 
also remembering (or forgetting) crafting, hacking, and making presents, 
futures, and pasts.

This anthology aims to bring together constellations of do-it-yourself 
production and culture. Proposals for papers that explore any aspect of 
crafting, hacking, and making, or parallel practices on the peripheries 
of current discourse will be considered. Both contemporary and 
historical case studies are welcome, and dialogue between the past, 
present, and future is encouraged.

If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract (no 
longer than 300 words minus citations, a title, and a short biography) 
to craftinghackingmaking@gmail.comby August 1st, 2018. Notifications of 
acceptance will be sent by September 1, 2018, and January 31, 2019 is 
the deadline for full chapter submissions. Questions can be emailed to 
David Murphy (david.murphy /at/ ryeson.ca).


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------