@article{Gill_Barber_Taithe_2021, title={Humanitarian Handicrafts: Testing the relationship between archival history and hands-on craft making }, volume={14}, url={https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/formakademisk/article/view/4181}, DOI={10.7577/formakademisk.4181}, abstractNote={<p class="FAAbstract"><span lang="EN-US">This paper asks how craft practice can inform historical reconsiderations of handicraft produced within a humanitarian socio-economic framework (to support humanitarian aims or fund-raising initiatives), and in turn explores how historical processes become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craftwork. By considering the possibilities for practice-based methods, this paper proposes the utility of involvement in craft-making processes for historians of humanitarianism. At the same time, this gives rise to a multiplicity of concerns for a contemporary craft practitioner undertaking a form of creative expression identifiable by its humanitarian purpose. It is therefore a helpful corrective to the temptation to think that experiments are innovations. Looking at early attempts in history we see a practice mirrored, not in the results, but in the process of working in a humanitarian mode of craft-based practice.</span></p>}, number={2}, journal={FormAkademisk}, author={Gill, Rebecca and Barber , Claire and Taithe , Bertrand}, year={2021}, month={mai} }