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Author_Maia Ebsen
Category=JHMC
Category=WF
Cultural Studies (General)
Development Studies
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forthcoming
Political and Economic Anthropology
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- ISBN 9781836956204
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Craft and cooperative practices are currently resurging in many European and North American societies. Builders often construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which frame their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. This book explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders working in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op. It sheds light on the political capacities of cooperative craftwork and on cooperative practitioners’ complicated relation to capitalist practices; practices which they simultaneously refuse, ridicule, and reproduce.
Maia Ebsen is currently Assistant Professor at Aarhus University. She has held various visiting scholar positions at institutions including MIT Anthropology and served as Vice President of the Danish Association of Anthropology from 2019 to 2025.
