{"product_id":"global-craftivism-since-the-pussyhats-9798881801359","title":"Global Craftivism Since the Pussyhats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Hinda Mandell\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, where she was the director of the university's journalism program from 2020-2024. Mandell is editor of this volume, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Craftivism since the Pussyhats: Handcraft Responses \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eto Violence, War, Illness and Isolation\u003c\/i\u003e; editor \u003ci\u003eCrafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats\u003c\/i\u003e (Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, 2019); co-curator and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCrafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism\u003c\/i\u003e (RIT Press, 2019); a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eNasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Rochester Press, 2018); the author of \u003ci\u003eSex Scandals, Gender and Power in Contemporary American Politics \u003c\/i\u003e(Praeger, 2017); and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eScandal in a Digital Age \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). As a journalist, her work has been published in \u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe LA Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. An avid DIY'er who loves to unleash creativity in others, Mandell is the founder of her university's annual Zine Fest. Her scholarly inquiries into collaborative handcraft as change-agents have been published in \u003ci\u003eCraft Research\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Feminist Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e. She is on the international advisory board of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Craft \u0026amp; Communities \u003c\/i\u003eand on the editorial board the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles\u003c\/i\u003e, and her research has been funded by the Center for Craft and Fiber Art Now. In 2020 she was a guest artist with Visual Studies Workshop, whose residency funded the production of her artist book, The Yarn Must Live: A Polemic on a Pandemic and Public Art, which was acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2021. Since 2017, she has organized maker interventions on issues of social reform tied to geographic place reaching 2,000 craft participants. She is also under contract for an upcoming book with Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, \u003ci\u003eCrafting Choice: Abortion Politics and Handwork in the U.S. \u003c\/i\u003eShe's been interviewed by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e, among other global outlets, on the importance of making objects by hand. She is on Instagram: @crochetactivism.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53239566172503,"sku":"9798881801359","price":46.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-craftivism-since-the-pussyhats-9798881801359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}