27th Jan 2016 5:00pm-6:30pm
M2 Boardroom, Grand Parade
Talk
Elli Michaela Young, PhD Candidate, University of Brighton. 'Fashioning Jamaica, 1950 – 1980’
Jamaica has an extremely complex history and as Fradera argues, there are few places in the world that have witnessed as much destruction and political competition as the Caribbean. (Fradera: 2011) The role design has played in the remaking of the Caribbean is an important one, particularly that of fashion and textiles. ‘Fashion has been one of the ways in which people of the African diaspora have created their sense of self, sense of community, and sense of place. Bodily practices have been almost as important as political manifestos in the struggle for freedom, agency and identity.’ (Saucier, 2011)
The paper is drawn from my wider project and considers the ways in which fashion and textiles, produced in Jamaica during 1950-1975, were employed in the construction of class, race and gender.
The Arts and Humanities Research Forum (AHRF) is a research forum for staff and students in the University’s Arts and Humanities College generated by the Doctoral College and the Centre for Research and Development The AHRF is a fortnightly event series open to all research students and staff as well as open to the public as audience members. The forum provides a regular facilitative context in which researchers can trial or rehearse research designs, argue for and justify appropriate methodological approaches and frameworks, and debate theory/practice relationships in their studies.
