In-Between Textiles 1400-1800 Weaving Subjectivities And Encounters

In-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped disrupted and transformed subjectivities in the age of the first globalisation. The volume presents a radically cross-disciplinary approach that brings together world-leading anthropologists archaeologists art historians conservators curators historians scientists and weavers to reflect on the power of textiles to reshape increasingly contested identities on a global scale between 1400 and 1800. Contributors posit the concept of “in-between textiles ” building upon Homi Bhabha’s notion of in-betweenness as the actual material ground of the negotiation of cultural practices and meanings; a site identified as the battleground over strategies of selfhood and the production of identity signs troubled by colonialism and consumerism across the world. In-Between Textiles establishes cutting-edge conversations between textile studies critical cultural theory and material culture studies to examine how textiles created and challenged experiences of subjectivity relatedness and dis/location that transformed social fabrics around the globe. |In-Between Textiles 1400-1800 Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters