Amanda Gilvin
Biographic Data
| ID | 135530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Gilvin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilvin |
| SIGNATURE | GILVIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acasa's Collaboration, Collections, and Restitution Best Practices Report
Today's widespread global discourse on restitution and repatriation of African arts is not new, but rather a continuation of over a century of requests, negotiations, and debates. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many African kingdoms began requesting the return of recently looted objects. In 1950, the writer and politician Aimé Césaire suggested thatSoon after Césaire's critical assessment, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghisla…
Boubou Hama
Games of Seduction and Games of History: Alioum Moussa'sFashion Victimsin Niamey, Niger
In his November 2011 solo art exhibition,Fashion Victims, held in Niamey, Niger, the Cameroonian artist Alioum Moussa launched a critique of global participation in the industrial fashion system by employing secondhand garments as his primary medium. The show had special resonance in a city attempting to cultivate both industrial and artisanal production of dress and fashion for global markets. Moussa demanded that viewers reckon with their own c…
Teaching African Artisanry, Seeing African Labor: Persistent Pedagogies in Twentieth-Century Niger
Through the analysis of photographs of artisans and students working, this essay traces the pedagogical precedents of an artisanal educational experiment in Niamey, Niger in the 1970s to racialized
Hot and Haute: Alphadi's Fashion for Peace
June 01 2014 Hot and Haute: Alphadi's Fashion for Peace Amanda Gilvin Amanda Gilvin Amanda Gilvin is a Five College Mellon Fellow in African Art and Architecture at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. She coedited the volume Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Her research in Niger has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell Universi…
Hot and Haute: Alphadi's Fashion for Peace
June 01 2014 Hot and Haute: Alphadi's Fashion for Peace Amanda Gilvin Amanda Gilvin Amanda Gilvin is a Five College Mellon Fellow in African Art and Architecture at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. She coedited the volume Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Her research in Niger has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell Universi…
Teaching African Artisanry, Seeing African Labor: Persistent Pedagogies in Twentieth-Century Niger
Through the analysis of photographs of artisans and students working, this essay traces the pedagogical precedents of an artisanal educational experiment in Niamey, Niger in the 1970s to racialized
Teaching African Artisanry, Seeing African Labor: Persistent Pedagogies in Twentieth-Century Niger
Through the analysis of photographs of artisans and students working, this essay traces the pedagogical precedents of an artisanal educational experiment in Niamey, Niger in the 1970s to racialized
Hot and Haute: Alphadi's Fashion for Peace
June 01 2014 Hot and Haute: Alphadi's Fashion for Peace Amanda Gilvin Amanda Gilvin Amanda Gilvin is a Five College Mellon Fellow in African Art and Architecture at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College. She coedited the volume Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Her research in Niger has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell Universi…
Games of Seduction and Games of History: Alioum Moussa'sFashion Victimsin Niamey, Niger
In his November 2011 solo art exhibition,Fashion Victims, held in Niamey, Niger, the Cameroonian artist Alioum Moussa launched a critique of global participation in the industrial fashion system by employing secondhand garments as his primary medium. The show had special resonance in a city attempting to cultivate both industrial and artisanal production of dress and fashion for global markets. Moussa demanded that viewers reckon with their own c…
Boubou Hama
Acasa's Collaboration, Collections, and Restitution Best Practices Report
Today's widespread global discourse on restitution and repatriation of African arts is not new, but rather a continuation of over a century of requests, negotiations, and debates. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many African kingdoms began requesting the return of recently looted objects. In 1950, the writer and politician Aimé Césaire suggested thatSoon after Césaire's critical assessment, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghisla…
Art (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Niger delta (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)