Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

 

 

Location Hosted by Alexandra Karentzos & Rhea Dehn Tutosaus
Technical University of Darmstadt, Karolinenplatz 5, S101/A04.

 

This talk will deal with mourning as communal affective labour. It will do so by considering the political work and affective bonds created by collectives subjected to the violence of the coloniality of migration. It will engage with the forms of resistance organized by intersectional anti-racist collectives.

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a Professor in Sociology with a focus on Culture and Migration at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

 

Previously to this position, she was Professor in General Sociology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Moreover, she is a Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

 

She has published widely on gender, migration, and care work. Among her publications is the book Migration, Domestic Work and Affect, published by Routledge (2010). More recently she has published Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons. Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure, and with Shirley Anne Tate the Palgrave Handbook in Critical Race and Gender and with Rhoda Reddock Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and the Caribbean as well with Pınar Tuzcu Migrantischer Feminismus in der Deutschen Frauenbewegung, 1985-2000.

Her work engages with affective labor, materialities, institutional racism, racial capitalism and the coloniality of migration.

Anna-Mari Almila

Sapenzia University of Rome

 

Date 05.06.24

Time 16:00 – 18:00

 

Location Hosted by Elke Gaugele and Sarah Held
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Wien, 1.06.

 

Scholars of fashion in the 2020s face two pressing and intertwined issues: environmental crisis and decolonising. When talking of the inequalities inherent in fashion systems, we cannot avoid either. The various decolonising projects ongoing in the field of fashion studies are made all the more pressing by fashion production’s extremely heavy environmental cost, the socially and geographically stratified consequences of climate change, and ongoing exploitation of vulnerable workforce in textile and garment production.

 

Further issues exist, too. We might ask where fashion scholarship and education are located, both in terms of global geography and in terms of subject-specific versus general educational institutions. Where are various fashion knowledges located? Where lie fashion’s value production and garment production respectively, and why are they so very differently rewarded?

 

Not that any of these divisions and factors are geographically fully stable. Around the world people travel, goods travel, thoughts travel, money travels. These movements are never based upon equality, either, but are ridden with many sorts of privileges, hindrances, and vulnerabilities. Some humans are forced to move, or forced to stay, while others (including many fashion scholars based in high-status institutions in places considered fashion capitals) move freely in a highly privileged manner.

 

The movement of fashion commodities is likewise either restricted or facilitated by international laws, contracts, and trade agreements. Ideas and images of fashion, and about fashion, move differently from physical objects and human bodies, but at the same time they reflect the global and local inequalities and injustices inherent in fashion systems.

Based on the recently published book Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities, edited by Anna-Mari Almila and Serkan Delice, this talk traces some of these disparities, arguing that a wide understanding of fashion’s multiple inequalities is necessary, in order to challenge even some of these.

 

Anna-Mari Almila is Senior Researcher in Cultural Sociology at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is a sociologist of fashion, wine, and other apparent trivialities.

 

She writes in the fields of cultural, political, global, and historical sociology, and her topics include the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments; fashion globalization and the history of fashion studies; the historical/political construction of urban spaces; fashion and religion; dress in later life; and wine and gender.

 

She loves social theory and (sociology of) wine. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2018). Her edited books include Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities (2023), The Globalization of Wine (2019), The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2016).

 

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Paul Goodwin

University of the Arts London

 

Date 12.06.24

 

Location Hosted by Franziska Koch, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße I, 0-Hörsaal/ 2201 HS 2AI.

 

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