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Caring for materialities, imaginaries, relationships and worlds I 
Convenors:
Sigrun Thorgrimsdottir (University of Gothenburg)
Anneli Palmsköld (University of Gothenburg)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
MUSEUMS AND MATERIALITIES
:
Room K-206
Sessions:
Tuesday 14 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The panel focuses on moments of care and more-than human relations in making, maintaining and repairing through acts of recrafting, recycling, reusing and reconstructing the fabric of everyday worlds and material imaginaries. We welcome stories about caring for and creating with vibrant matter.

Long Abstract:

This panel focuses on moments and labours of care in everyday activities of making, maintenance and repair paying special attention to sociomaterial processes of dealing with the existing fabric of everyday life or material imaginaries, in recrafting, recycling, reusing and reconstructing. We invite papers unpacking and rethinking material agency and more-than-human relations in its various forms and entanglements.

We want to explore “the ethnological/folkloristic touch” and its convergence with critical heritage studies, craft research, conservation and emerging maintenance and repair studies, in times of ecological crisis. Taking cues from aforementioned caretaking activities we hope for discussions anchored in materiality and more-than-human relations that engage with agency, temporalities and/or knowledge production. We are interested in stories about ways of caring for and creating with vibrant matter, thinking of pasts, presents and futures. The panel further aims to critically discuss crafting with care and recrafting objects and ideas. Of particular interest are the values and meanings of tending to the consequences of temporality in materials, neglect and obsolescence as well as the affects, aesthetics and ethics found within these practices.

We call for papers from scholars addressing heritage management, crafts, making, circular economies and mundane domestic practices, for example. Interdisciplinary studies and research grounded in material engagement and practical doings using different empirical sources such as recipes, journals, guides and situated narratives, both historical and contemporary, are welcomed. We hope for surprising and creative encounters that will generate alternative and experimental perspectives on the subject and offer theoretical and methodological insights.

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Session 1 Tuesday 14 June, 2022, -
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