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Humanitarian handicraft
History, materiality and trade, c. 1840–1980
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Edited by:
Rebecca Gill
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Rebecca Gill
Rebecca Gill is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield
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Contributor: Bertrand Taithe
Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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eBook ISBN:
9781526188045
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526188045
Keywords for this book
artisan; artists; craft; handcraft; humanitarianism; labour; lace; production; textiles
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
