Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism

Tacchetti, Maddalena; Quiceno Toro, Natalia; Papadopoulos, Dimitris; Puig de la Bellacasa, María

Abstract

Based on ethnographic work with several women’s textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, more than social process of communal regeneration. We discuss how women in these collectives, after painful and violent displacements, craft new ecologies of existence: relations and interdependencies within more than human worlds that cultivate new modes of care and attention, values and sensibilities in precarious living spaces. Ecological reparation is an everyday, vital, ongoing practice essential for community resurgence and for re-establishing collectivities that sustain liveable worlds.

Citation

Tacchetti, M., Quiceno Toro, N., Papadopoulos, D., & Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2022). Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(3), 1383-1404. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211030154

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 12, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Aug 11, 2021
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Deposit Date: Jun 25, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 11, 2021
• Journal: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
• Print ISSN: 2514-8486
• Electronic ISSN: 2514-8494
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1383-1404
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211030154
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5722593
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486211030154
• Additional Information: Copyright © 2021, © The Authors