Fashion And Colonialism

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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.

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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

Céline Semaan

Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian researcher, designer, public speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and executive director of Slow Factory, an institute and lab that transforms socially and environmentally harmful systems by designing models that are good for the Earth and good for people. She currently sits on Progressive International’s Council alongside Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy and has published in Elle, the New York Magazine and Teen Vogue. Her inter-disciplinary work at the intersection of fashion, climate, and politics has been covered by numerous news and fashion outlets.