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'Stand back and watch us': Post-capitalist practices in the maker movement.
- Source :
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Environment & Planning A . May2020, Vol. 52 Issue 3, p593-610. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This paper examines the economic practices of maker spaces – open workshops that have increased in number over recent years and that aim to provide access to tools, materials and skills for small-scale manufacturing and repair. Scholarly interest in such spaces has been increasing across the social sciences more broadly, parallel to a growing interest in craft and making in economic geography. However, to rectify the 'capitalocentrism' of much existing work, the paper examines the case of a workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, through the dual theoretical lens of diverse economies and social practice theory. This conceptual approach sees the space as a novel form of economic 'being-in-common', providing diverse and contradictory opportunities for post-capitalist practice. The paper draws conclusions regarding the limits and potential of such spaces for sowing the prefigurative seeds for a more inclusive, sustainable and democratic urbanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MAKER movement
*INVESTORS
*MAKERSPACES
*ECONOMIC geography
*CAPITALISM
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142423368
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19882731