Colonialism and Fashion have long been intertwined. From sourcing and manufacturing to exporting waste, this class will explore current practices that reproduce colonialism and exploitation in fashion, and how we can avoid such practices.

Resources:

Books/Literary Texts/Articles

• Decolonization is not a metaphor, Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang

• Orientalism —Wikipedia

• Colonization and Identity

• 1764 d’Anville Map of Eastern Roman Empire from Black Sea Region to Middle East

• Christian Universalism — Wikipedia

• Colonialism’s Clothing: Africa, France, and the Deployment of Fashion.

• E-Colonialism— Wikipedia(feat. art by Hiba Schahbaz)

• State of Fashion

• 5,000 workers protesting low wages in Bangladeshi garment factories have been fired

• [Op-Ed

  Why Fashion Has a Stake in India’s Farmer Protests](https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/op-ed-why-fashion-has-a-stake-in-indias-farmer-protests)

• ‘Assault’ on residential school students’ identities began the moment they stepped inside

• Dress for Success

• Design Fiction: Prototyping Desirable Futures (The Future Cone)

• Speculative design: A design niche or a new tool for government innovation?

• Orientalism by Edward Said

• The Politics of Dispossession by Edward Said

• If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

• Fashion & Post Colonial Theory Critique