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Essays on Craft and Communities https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.114156 Zebrowska, Monika 000000030284789X Howard-Grenville, Jennifer Kroezen, Jochem While previous research has often explored questions surrounding disruption or change, recent crises, and ongoing societal disruptions direct our attention to the challenges surrounding resilience, stability, and the continuity of cherished societal structures, organizations, and institutions. This thesis centers empirically around one of the timeless modes of production – craft, as well as one of the oldest forms of informal organizing – communities. The three studies in this thesis all explore questions surrounding the motivations of individuals and collectives for continuous engagement with the social structures they are part of. Paper 1 investigates how historical dependence on an institution due to local hardship played an important role in the continuous participation in and long-term vitality of a heritage craft in rural Poland. Paper 2 explores how individual craftspeople find deeper meanings in their craft, through which they enchant the otherwise daunting process of cross-generational transfer of embodied knowledge. Paper 3 problematizes the concept of geographical communities, develops a typology to capture crucial differences between their variations, and discusses the consequences they pose for formal organizations working with communities to sustainably address societal issues. University of Cambridge 2024-03-31 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/377293 embargo 2030-12-11 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/bb1b42b2-db3b-4f49-86c5-e9351d01dfa5/download 8a9f2f242567c2223d938b46e26602db https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/abf5d549-62d2-4160-a7be-a30358040a01/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ Organisational theory Craft Communities Community organising