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Crafting Co-ops in Denmark: Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm

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New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

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Crafting Co-ops in Denmark

Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm

Maia Ebsen

234 pages, 8 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-620-4 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (August 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-621-1 eBook Not Yet Published


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“It’s refreshing to see a solidly placed-based ethnography... the experiential aspects of participation-observation clearly informed the author’s appreciation for and comprehension of what the builders were telling her.” • Heather Paxson, MIT Anthropology

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Craft and cooperative practices are currently resurging in many European and North American societies. Builders often construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which frame their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. This book explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders working in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op. It sheds light on the political capacities of cooperative craftwork and on cooperative practitioners’ complicated relation to capitalist practices; practices which they simultaneously refuse, ridicule, and reproduce.

Maia Ebsen is currently Assistant Professor at Aarhus University. She has held various visiting scholar positions at institutions including MIT Anthropology and served as Vice President of the Danish Association of Anthropology from 2019 to 2025.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesCultural Studies (General)
Area: Northern Europe


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