All Outputs (3)

“Things should be better”: immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen (2021)
Journal Article
Clifford Collard, N. J. (2021). “Things should be better”: immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(5), 810-826. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211001382

Drawing on an ethnography of life in a Ghanaian weaving workshop, this article traces the intersections between young rural weavers’ affective labour, hope and their experiences of immobility. Hope is explored as an ambivalent resource which shapes t... Read More about “Things should be better”: immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen.

The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop (2020)
Book Chapter
Clifford Collard, N. J. The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop. In B. Baillie, & M. L. S. Sørensen (Eds.), African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (181-199). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1_7

Exploring the values attached to heritage through an ethnography of craftwork in southern Ghana, this chapter looks at how the routine, quotidian sociality of weaving, engaged in by young men seeking livelihoods, embodies ideas about cultural practic... Read More about The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop.

Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving (2016)
Book Chapter
Clifford Collard, N. J. (2016). Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving. In T. H. Marchand (Ed.), Craftwork as Problem Solving: Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making (153-168). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562803-9

This chapter explores what problem solving meant for a community of Ghanaian craftsmen. Drawing on fieldwork carried out with weavers in a community workshop in Kpetoe Agotime, a small town in southeastern Ghana close to the border with Togo. Located... Read More about Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving.