TY - JOUR
T1 - Craft fields and the temporal structures of quilting
AU - Hosking, Sara
AU - Scott, Michael
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - This article develops a Bourdieusian-inspired structuralist model of how craft and commerce intersect. Through interpretative engagement with targeted interviews (n = 17) of ‘serious leisure’ quilters drawn from a larger quantitative survey (n = 440), we find that attitudes to pattern sharing suspends the field between commercial and communitarian poles. Unlike fine art and popular culture fields, where the usurpation of dominant styles leads to a succession temporality, quilting evinces a stasis: communitarian and circular temporalities of reciprocity and inclusion counterpose commoditization, notions of just (market) rewards, and their linear temporality. Developing from this chiastic – crosswise – structure, we argue craft's temporal organization of materials and actors differentiates quilting from art and other cultural forms; what is new is old; what is old is new. Generalizing this analysis, we suggest craft fields can appear unchanging due to the co-constituting, yet unresolvable, symbolic oppositions between commercial and communitarian temporalities.
AB - This article develops a Bourdieusian-inspired structuralist model of how craft and commerce intersect. Through interpretative engagement with targeted interviews (n = 17) of ‘serious leisure’ quilters drawn from a larger quantitative survey (n = 440), we find that attitudes to pattern sharing suspends the field between commercial and communitarian poles. Unlike fine art and popular culture fields, where the usurpation of dominant styles leads to a succession temporality, quilting evinces a stasis: communitarian and circular temporalities of reciprocity and inclusion counterpose commoditization, notions of just (market) rewards, and their linear temporality. Developing from this chiastic – crosswise – structure, we argue craft's temporal organization of materials and actors differentiates quilting from art and other cultural forms; what is new is old; what is old is new. Generalizing this analysis, we suggest craft fields can appear unchanging due to the co-constituting, yet unresolvable, symbolic oppositions between commercial and communitarian temporalities.
KW - Bourdieu
KW - chiasm
KW - craft
KW - field
KW - structuralism
KW - time
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128738865&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/13678779221094849
DO - 10.1177/13678779221094849
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128738865
SN - 1367-8779
VL - 25
SP - 706
EP - 723
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
IS - 6
ER -