Les Tricoteuses: The plain and purl of solidarity and protest
Liz Stops
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Photo: Clare Twomey 2013
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the use of knitting as a protest tool by the
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG), a group formed to combat the
development of Unconventional Gas Mining (UGM) in the Northern Rivers of
New South Wales. KNAG is socially and politically motivated, but not
aligned to any political party. The group’s ‘Nannafesto’ emphasises care
for community and country while protesting against corporate greed. I
situate KNAG within a broad historical and contemporary framework of
similarly motivated movements that have used knitting as a tool for
social, cultural and ideological influence. I also elaborate on the act
of knitting as a form of witness bearing, a means to facilitate calm
persistence, a strategy for processing ideas and an instrument for
reinforcing the threads connecting community. Read full paper
Full paper published in craft+design enquiry: issue 6 Issue 6 2014, Craft.Material.Memory
Knitting nannas, political, CSG, craft, activism
Knitting nannas, political, CSG, craft, activism
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