Humanitarian handicraft : history, materiality and trade, c. 1840-1980 / edited by Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gill, Rebecca, editor.

Barber, Claire, editor.

Dampier, Helen, editor.

Taithe, Bertrand, editor.

Series:

Humanitarianism : key debates and new approaches

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handicraft industries--Social aspects.

Handicraft industries.

Textile crafts--Humanitarianism.

Textile crafts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Claire Barber is Senior Lecturer in Textiles at the University of Huddersfield.

Helen Dampier is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University.

Rebecca Gill is Reader in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield

Bertrand Taithe is Professor of History at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill, Bertrand Taithe

1 Literary visions of craft and cooperation in the European handmade lace revival, c. 1840-1914 / David Hopkin

2 Work of hands / Janice Helland

3 Thinking Anglo-American industrial relief through Armenian needlework in the late 1890s / Stéphanie Prévost

4 Emily Hobhouse and the Koppies Lace School, 1908-1926 / Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill

5 Beyond gratitude / Wendy Wiertz

6 Threads of friendship / Siân Roberts

7 Politics woven as missionary craft / Bertrand Taithe

8 Caught in the net / Elizaveta Berezina

9 Crafting communist paternalism / Nicolette Makovicky

10 Humanitarian handicrafts as (dis)empowerment of women 'left behind' / Maria Småberg

11 Humanitarian handicrafts / Catherine Bertola, Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill, June Hill

Afterword / Jessica Hemmings

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8804-X

1-5261-8803-1

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access