Something you can actually pick up

Karina Hof (1)

1 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam

This article is an ethnographic study of scrapbooking as a community of practice. Through interviews with practitioners of the contemporary craft both in the United States and The Netherlands, as well as by analysing surveys, internet resources and secondary literature, it seeks to describe how scrapbooking is both a form and forum of cultural citizenship.

Mots clés: community of practice; crafts; crops; cultural citizenship; gender; motherhood; scrapbooking; women

Karina Hof. Something you can actually pick up. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006, 9 (3), pp.363-384. ⟨10.1177/1367549406066078⟩. ⟨hal-00571516⟩