DIRT
DIRT: Laurie Taylor explores its material and symbolic meaning, from colonial Lagos, Nigeria to the world of contemporary, sustainable fashion.
DIRT: Laurie Taylor explores its material & symbolic meanings. Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos,Nigeria. They鈥檙e joined by Lucy Norris, Guest Professor of Design Anthropology and Material Culture at the Weissensee School of Art and Design, Berlin, who asks if the resistance to recycled clothes relates to our fear that they may intimately link us with 'dirty' & contagious bodies.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Stephanie Newell, Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2019, Duke University Press)
Lucy Norris, Paper: Waste, dirt and desire: Fashioning narratives of material regeneration (2019)
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- Wed 9 Dec 2020 16:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Mon 14 Dec 2020 00:15麻豆社 Radio 4
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