ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a theoretical framework for conceptualising what social justice and equity in craft might look and feel like. Despite the challenges they face, socially engaged craft organisations may be instructive in imagining a more inclusive craft ecology which better reflects the breadth and plurality of craft practice in all its forms, for all its purposes beyond the economic. It covers the micro, meso and macro level of craft and cultural production. First, at the micro level, it proposes focusing on craft expertise as manifest in the cultural object, drawing on the work of Georgina Born. Second, at the meso level, reshaping the mechanisms of judgement through Janet Wolff’s idea of ‘community evaluation’, opening evaluation of craft to wider and more diverse communities. Third, at the macro level, ideas of parity of participation by Nancy Fraser and contributive and distributive justice by Mark Banks are discussed to imagine a craft sector in which anyone can participate and flourish through craft practice.
