Design and the evolving tradition of Sanganer hand block printing : Formation and negotiation of artisanal knowledge and identities
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32458670
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/17496772.2017.1351102
- Title of journal
- Journal of Modern Craft
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- First page
- 137
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1749-6772
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Journal of Modern Craft is a peer-reviewed academic journal and “the main scholarly voice” for interdisciplinary and international insights into craft. This paper underwent rigorous peer review to disseminate a case study on intersections between craft textiles and the global market, with a focus on strategies adopted by artisans in order to navigate the heritage and external demands for innovation of their making practices. The case study and field site were developed during British Council-funded research visits to India in 2010, and especially 2012 and 2014 (Creative Scotland [CS]), when Kalkreuter was PI in a 60K practitioner residency exchange programme between India and Scotland. The research for this paper was conducted collaboratively over two years by PhD student Greru and supervisor Kalkreuter, with the former first assisting in the public engagement activities on the PI’s CS project in Scotland before collecting the field data in India, and the latter initiating the research and its setup and editing the research analysis for journal publication. Conference papers exploring research findings from the CS residences and public engagement events were presented and published in proceedings at the Global Fashion Conference (2014), Making Futures (2014), and All Makers Now (2014).
The Sanganer paper is the culmination of this joint research project; it proposes new angles on heritage and innovation debates by considering what craft and design interactions have to offer to the safeguarding and rejuvenating of cultural practices. The paper adds the voices of grassroots heritage actors and considers their testimony in the context of extant literature on tradition as a transformative process that is being ‘enforced, reinvented, transformed, denied, or contested’ (Varutti, 2015: 1038); by doing so it offers new insights into a range of ‘modern’, ‘traditional’ and ‘heritage’ craft realities.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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