For more than a decade actors in Europe, North America and Australasia have been
warning of crises with horticultural skills, highlighting shortages of specialists, educational …

" Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2018" The
conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's …

In this special section, we conceptualise 'Skilled mediations' to examine the following
questions from several ethnographic perspectives: How do skills and media interact, enable …

In this article we build on the “good farmer” literature to explore how Swedish coastal fishers
represented the “good fisher” in the context of transformations in the social-ecological field of …

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal
experiences with the Teetł'it Gwich'in community in northern Canada. The author provides …

Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which
the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly …

Artisanal cultures of work and skills transmission provide a useful point of contrast from
which to think about the renewed interest in skills development as a formal, institutionalized …

The edited volume Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards (Grasseni 2007)
gathered contributions from anthropology, history of science, and the visual arts in light of …

In this paper we unpack the theory and application of a pedagogy for environmental care
and the place of digital technologies and interaction design within this pedagogy. The paper …

This special issue departs from the premise that the sensible dimensions of urban (in)
security shape lived and embodied experiences of the city in ways that reflect and affect …