Progress and implications of research on the Western geographies of making:Origin and main topics
With the three waves of craft renaissance in the West,as well as the problems of global climate change and resource shortages in the Anthropocene,how to make better use of materials and explore different making cultures has attracted the attention of Western academia.As one of the emerging fields in Western geographic research that has received much attention in recent years,geographies of making attempts to provide methods for addressing current material and environmental crises by focusing on the practice of body and material interactions at different scales,and hopes to reexamine how humans relate to materials,produce goods,and construct economic and social structures around materials based on a concern for environmental and socioeconomic well-being.Through a review of the literature on Western geographies of making,this study found that relevant research mainly adopts auto-ethnographic,apprenticeship,and other embodied participatory research methods,with a focus on multiple contexts of making,body in making,materials in making,practices in making,and relationships of making.It also explored research topics that need attention in China,including the protection of craftsmen and sustainable utilization of materials,the fluidity of making practices and place reconstruction,craft making and sustainable livelihoods for rural craftsmen,and the everyday practice of making and happiness and friendship.This work will lay a foundation for implementing policies such as the"Revitalization Plan for Chinese Traditional Crafts"and rural revitalization,providing important theoretical guidance for innovative development and creative transformation of intangible cultural heritage,as well as the harmonious development of human-environment relationship in the process of making.
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