Relational care and ordinary repair in diverse craft economies
Relational care and ordinary repair in diverse craft economies
The commentary attends to India's rapidly changing craft economy to notice how individual economic actors in the craft sector make complex and often contradictory ethico-political choices realising hopeful possibilities. Through the mode of care and repair, the commentary examines how the artisans operating within diverse economies negotiate with exploitative labour regimes and survive a dwindling craft sector. It considers how a woman owner-artisan creates an atmosphere of togetherness and extends her notion of family by cooking for her team of workers. Care ethics, in this analysis, is not only a gendered feeling but realigns with co-dependent economic exchanges essential for collective survival. The second case focuses on the everyday repair of musical instruments as an alternative act of ordinary ethics. The commentary argues, even when these small doings do not bring immediate and intentional change in the economic organisation of the two crafts, they require pivotal consideration as already existing alternative value systems anchored within everyday world-making practices.
care, craft production, ethics, labour economics, repair, craft, ordinary ethics, labour
Mukhopadhyay, Rishika
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8 September 2023
Mukhopadhyay, Rishika
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Mukhopadhyay, Rishika
(2023)
Relational care and ordinary repair in diverse craft economies.
Asia Pacific Viewpoint.
(doi:10.1111/apv.12390).
Abstract
The commentary attends to India's rapidly changing craft economy to notice how individual economic actors in the craft sector make complex and often contradictory ethico-political choices realising hopeful possibilities. Through the mode of care and repair, the commentary examines how the artisans operating within diverse economies negotiate with exploitative labour regimes and survive a dwindling craft sector. It considers how a woman owner-artisan creates an atmosphere of togetherness and extends her notion of family by cooking for her team of workers. Care ethics, in this analysis, is not only a gendered feeling but realigns with co-dependent economic exchanges essential for collective survival. The second case focuses on the everyday repair of musical instruments as an alternative act of ordinary ethics. The commentary argues, even when these small doings do not bring immediate and intentional change in the economic organisation of the two crafts, they require pivotal consideration as already existing alternative value systems anchored within everyday world-making practices.
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 August 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 September 2023
Published date: 8 September 2023
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I would like to thank the University of Exeter for funding the research through International Excellence Scholarship and the research participants for their invaluable time. 1
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© 2023 The Author. Asia Pacific Viewpoint published by Victoria University of Wellington and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
Keywords:
care, craft production, ethics, labour economics, repair, craft, ordinary ethics, labour
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ISSN: 1467-8373
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