Description
This book uncovers the overlooked history of artisanal textiles in projects aimed at social uplift and moral reform. The contributors ask what the implications of this form of gendered craft production are for our understanding of the humanitarian imagination, relations of humanitarian production and the generation of meaning and social and artistic value. It also opens a dialogue with contemporary socially-engaged textile artists to engender critical reflection on the socially-situated meaning of textile craft in past and present humanitarian contexts.
About the Author
Book Information
ISBN 9781526188021
Author Rebecca Gill
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Series Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
About the Author
Claire Barber is Senior Lecturer in Textiles at the University of Huddersfield
Helen Dampier is Reader in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University
Rebecca Gill is Reader in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield
Bertrand Taithe is Professor of History at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
Book Information
ISBN 9781526188021
Author Rebecca Gill
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Series Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
