http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5325/utopianstudies.22.2.0233.pdf?acceptTC=true ( this is the link of the article)
article name and bibliography: Fabricating activism: Craft-work, popular culture,gender.
Bratich, Jack Z., and Heidi M. Brush. “Fabricating Activism: Craft-Work, Popular Culture, Gender.” Utopian Studies 22.2 (2011): 233-
260.
The article critique should include: (800-1000 words)
1. A descriptive, analytical summary of your article
Offer your reader a complete sense of the form, scope, and project of the article:
State what kind of writing this article constitutes. Is this a case study? An ethnography? A laboratory experiment? A longitudinal
study? A close reading? A review of an art exhibit? Make sure you include the scope of the paper, the object of study, and the main
lines of inquiry.
Explain the main claim(s) the article develops or advances.
Outline the evidence offered to support those claims.
800 words is insufficient to tell your reader about every single thing the article says and does. Since you’ve given an overview of the
article as a whole, you can now select one or two elements of the article that you see as either useful or problematic to focus on and
present to the reader. Consider both elements of content and elements related to research or writing.
elements of content might include:
the historical scope of the article
how the author defines a key concept like DIY or craft
what the author uses DIY or craft to reveal, argue, or suggest about a line of inquiry like gender, economics, race, etc.
content that strikes you as minimally useful to our class
elements of research or writing might include
a structural component like organization, presentation of data, how the author(s) initiate their project, and so on.
compelling evidence or a source you found interesting, questionable, or instructive
a writerly concern like voice, tone, register. This might be something that you find a pleasant surprise, or something you found
impenetrable or challenging.
2. An overview of the current course readings that situates your article in relation to those readings
Include a paragraph that sketches out the what our class “learns” from the current readings: what objects of study are introduced? What
lines of inquiry are developed? What key terms are explored?
Explain how swapping one of the current readings for the article you read would change what the class “learns” from the readings. What
would be removed? What would be added?
Your overview should demonstrate your understanding of the course readings and accurately represent their content.
our current course readings.
Dawkins, N. (2011). Do-It-Yourself: the precarious work and postfeminist politics of handmaking (in) Detroit. Utopian Studies, 22(2),
261-284.
Rosner, D. K. (2014). Making citizens, reassembling devices: on gender and the development of contemporary public sites of repair in
Northern California. Public Culture, 26(1 72), 51-77.
Goggin, M. D. (2015). Joie de Fabriquer: The Rhetoricity of Yarn Bombing. Associate Editor, 145.
Pristash, H. Schaechterle, I. Carter Wood, S. (2009) The needle as the pen: Intentionality, needlework, and the production of alternate
discourse of power. In M. Daly Goggin, B. Fowkes Tobin (Eds.), Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950
(13-30). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co.
3. A recommendation as to whether the article you critique should replace one of the foundational texts next semester.
This section will be shorter for some articles than others. Sometimes “no, this is not a good reading for this class” doesn’t take long
to say.
If you think your article would be a good replacement for one of the current readings, make sure you explain why your substitution is
valuable, and if necessary, why the benefits of this swap outweigh any concerns that you have considered.
If you think it’s a tough call–whether you come down on the side of “replace” or “don’t replace”–explain your considerations,
misgivings, or desires, but make sure that ultimately you do make a clear recommendation.
A recommendation that acknowledges real difficulty and addresses concerns is more persuasive than a recommendation that ignores real or
obvious concerns.
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