Affecting Infrastructures: Crafting and Weaving as Alternative Repairs

Autor(en)

Fredy Mora-Gámez, Dimitris Papadopolous, Eliana Sánchez Aldana

Abstrakt

As two traditional practices performed by rural communities in Colombia, crafting and weaving can be reframed as ontologies that embody alternative material orders and forms of repair. In this context, we explore two specific initiatives: the Crafted Empathy Chair developed by members of campesinosocial movements in Cauca and Nariño, and Interweaving Material Encounters, a series of collaborative spaces involving women from textile collectives from Chocó, Antioquia, and Bolivar. In the process of exploringthese initiatives, we reflect on the role of nonhumans as technologies that allow our interlocutors to share their affect. In addition to discussing strategies for engaging in affective relations when dealing with the aftermath of war violence, we describe how these arrangements affectus as a part of the audience. Thus, we propose the term affecting infrastructureto conceptualize how crafting and weaving can foster everyday spaces and shared grounds for the emergence of emotional engagements as alternative modes of repair

Organisation(en)

Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

University of California, Santa Cruz, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)

Journal

Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

Band

9

Seiten

1-28

Anzahl der Seiten

27

DOI

https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39206

Publikationsdatum

11-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504008 Ethnographie, 504014 Gender Studies, 504028 Techniksoziologie, 509017 Wissenschaftsforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Anthropology, Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten, SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen, SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a0e28c11-d431-4397-b23e-6780a5b7ea68