Tom Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Warren Wilson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3808-6220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Where Craft Starts
This essay illustrates my pedagogical approach on the MA in Critical Craft Studies (MACR) and explains some of the philosophical commitments that underpinned my teaching there. Working as Core Faculty on the program for three years, I regularly led students through embodied ethnographic trials as a way to help them tune their attention to the kind of everyday understanding so often overlooked in academic research. In addition to being the kind of…
Ethnography from Home
How do you teach fieldwork methods when your students are suddenly prevented from entering the field? This was a pressing question faced by faculty at Guttman Community College who were teaching Ethnographies of Work, a required first-year course centered on the observation and analysis of real-world workplace dynamics. During the COVID-19 lockdown, the in-person workplace observations that the course was designed around became largely impossible…
Calculations without math
This paper considers a historical boat building practice in light of Runeson’s (Scan J Psychol 18:172–179, 1977) concept of ‘smart instruments’, tools that exploit particular features of situated processes to aid their users in complex cognitive operations. The key example here is that of the ‘spiling stick,’ a flexible baton used to determine the two-dimensional shape of board stock that will eventually twist to fit a three-dimensional position …
Travailler, oui, mais différemment
En remettant en question le travail, son sens et sa finalité, une génération d'étudiants pose les jalons d'un avenir désirable. Ce manifeste est une invitation à repenser le travail dans un monde qui se délite
An Argument for the Necessity of Craft Learning in Liberal Education
Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation
Craft Learning As Perceptual Transformation
Relational Perception and ‘the feel’ for Tools in the Wooden Boat Workshop
This paper presents insights into the lived experience of maritime carpentry practices, based on six months of sensory-ethnographic fieldwork as a wooden boat builder’s apprentice. In particular, the author explores the widely-reported experience of tools ‘withdrawing’ from consciousness as craftspeople master their use. Without contradicting these interpretations – many of which are constructed by way of reference to ideas from Merleau-Ponty – t…
Femi, Brake Mechanic
Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work, extols both the wholesome, pragmatic qualities of handcraft and the implicit intellectual skills required of its practitioners. His recent article, “Rethinkin
Own-Race-Absent Racism
I propose that a distinction can be drawn between two fundamental kinds of racism: own-race-present racism and own-race-absent racism. In own-racepresent racism, the race of the racist figures as a term in her racist thinking; in own-race-absent racism it does not. While own-race-present racism might conform readily to commonsense understandings of racism, own-race-absent racism less clearly does. I provide evidence that these two kinds are there…
Produktion 2000 ? Trying to jointly improve technology, organisation and qualification
Cambodia after Untac
The UN's unprecedented commitment in Cambodia was to be the harbinger of a revived role for the UN in enhancing international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. However, in the initial optimism associated with this renewed hope, the nature of the challenge the UN faces in cases of international intervention was not fully recognised. This paper focuses on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and the nature of Cam…
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Cambodia after Untac
The UN's unprecedented commitment in Cambodia was to be the harbinger of a revived role for the UN in enhancing international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. However, in the initial optimism associated with this renewed hope, the nature of the challenge the UN faces in cases of international intervention was not fully recognised. This paper focuses on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and the nature of Cam…
Produktion 2000 ? Trying to jointly improve technology, organisation and qualification
Own-Race-Absent Racism
I propose that a distinction can be drawn between two fundamental kinds of racism: own-race-present racism and own-race-absent racism. In own-racepresent racism, the race of the racist figures as a term in her racist thinking; in own-race-absent racism it does not. While own-race-present racism might conform readily to commonsense understandings of racism, own-race-absent racism less clearly does. I provide evidence that these two kinds are there…
Femi, Brake Mechanic
Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work, extols both the wholesome, pragmatic qualities of handcraft and the implicit intellectual skills required of its practitioners. His recent article, “Rethinkin
Relational Perception and ‘the feel’ for Tools in the Wooden Boat Workshop
This paper presents insights into the lived experience of maritime carpentry practices, based on six months of sensory-ethnographic fieldwork as a wooden boat builder’s apprentice. In particular, the author explores the widely-reported experience of tools ‘withdrawing’ from consciousness as craftspeople master their use. Without contradicting these interpretations – many of which are constructed by way of reference to ideas from Merleau-Ponty – t…
Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation
Craft Learning As Perceptual Transformation
An Argument for the Necessity of Craft Learning in Liberal Education
Where Craft Starts
This essay illustrates my pedagogical approach on the MA in Critical Craft Studies (MACR) and explains some of the philosophical commitments that underpinned my teaching there. Working as Core Faculty on the program for three years, I regularly led students through embodied ethnographic trials as a way to help them tune their attention to the kind of everyday understanding so often overlooked in academic research. In addition to being the kind of…
Ethnography from Home
How do you teach fieldwork methods when your students are suddenly prevented from entering the field? This was a pressing question faced by faculty at Guttman Community College who were teaching Ethnographies of Work, a required first-year course centered on the observation and analysis of real-world workplace dynamics. During the COVID-19 lockdown, the in-person workplace observations that the course was designed around became largely impossible…
Calculations without math
This paper considers a historical boat building practice in light of Runeson’s (Scan J Psychol 18:172–179, 1977) concept of ‘smart instruments’, tools that exploit particular features of situated processes to aid their users in complex cognitive operations. The key example here is that of the ‘spiling stick,’ a flexible baton used to determine the two-dimensional shape of board stock that will eventually twist to fit a three-dimensional position …
Travailler, oui, mais différemment
En remettant en question le travail, son sens et sa finalité, une génération d'étudiants pose les jalons d'un avenir désirable. Ce manifeste est une invitation à repenser le travail dans un monde qui se délite
Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Craft (3 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)