Siún Carden
Biographic Data
| ID | 228582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siún Carden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siún |
| FAMILY NAME | Carden |
| SIGNATURE | CARDEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9998-3558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Authenticity and Place-Based Knitwear
This article examines authenticity as it is understood and used within networks of makers in Shetland and Ireland, in places associated with fair isle and aran knitting. Drawing on 15 anonymised interviews and observations from a 2018–2019 study, the articles considers authenticity in relation to four themes: place, handwork, materials and deception. Those engaged in knitting related to small islands are inevitably confronted with demands for and…
Patterns and Programs
Styles of knitwear associated with places, such as Shetland’s “fair isle” and Ireland’s “aran” knitting, are viewed through the lens of “tradition” by many consumers and makers. The creative process which results in such textile products is widely recognized as a communal one and set within centuries-long (real and imagined) historical contexts. This popular understanding includes a valorization of hand skills, particularly the improvizational fl…
The Place of Shetland Knitting
Shetland has become synonymous with certain kinds of knit textiles, which have influenced the development of its landscape, economy, and relationship to other places. Three distinct elements are important when considering Shetland knitting in relation to place: geographies of scale, e.g. small islands within a community of practice and creative economy that are global; typologies of space, e.g. domestic, educational, industrial, and online spaces…
Folk Fashion , Amy Twigger Holroyd, London
Island textiles and clothing
This special thematic section of Island Studies Journal explores textiles and clothing from an island studies perspective. While there are many examples of textiles and clothing associated with particular islands, an explicitly island studies approach to them has not been fully developed. Such an approach offers the scholar of textiles and clothing a comparative perspective on disparate examples, and invites investigation of ‘island-ness’ beyond …
Making space for tourists with minority languages
This article examines the role of tourism as a motive and mechanism for change in contemporary cities, considering how the theming of space with tourists in mind necessarily involves other kinds of spatial and social transformation, and asking what role actual and hypothetical tourists play in local contests over space and representation. Looking closely at Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter provides an insight into how global fashions in place marketin…
Who's the Daddy
Making space for tourists with minority languages
This article examines the role of tourism as a motive and mechanism for change in contemporary cities, considering how the theming of space with tourists in mind necessarily involves other kinds of spatial and social transformation, and asking what role actual and hypothetical tourists play in local contests over space and representation. Looking closely at Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter provides an insight into how global fashions in place marketin…
Who's the Daddy
Making space for tourists with minority languages
This article examines the role of tourism as a motive and mechanism for change in contemporary cities, considering how the theming of space with tourists in mind necessarily involves other kinds of spatial and social transformation, and asking what role actual and hypothetical tourists play in local contests over space and representation. Looking closely at Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter provides an insight into how global fashions in place marketin…
Island textiles and clothing
This special thematic section of Island Studies Journal explores textiles and clothing from an island studies perspective. While there are many examples of textiles and clothing associated with particular islands, an explicitly island studies approach to them has not been fully developed. Such an approach offers the scholar of textiles and clothing a comparative perspective on disparate examples, and invites investigation of ‘island-ness’ beyond …
The Place of Shetland Knitting
Shetland has become synonymous with certain kinds of knit textiles, which have influenced the development of its landscape, economy, and relationship to other places. Three distinct elements are important when considering Shetland knitting in relation to place: geographies of scale, e.g. small islands within a community of practice and creative economy that are global; typologies of space, e.g. domestic, educational, industrial, and online spaces…
Folk Fashion , Amy Twigger Holroyd, London
Patterns and Programs
Styles of knitwear associated with places, such as Shetland’s “fair isle” and Ireland’s “aran” knitting, are viewed through the lens of “tradition” by many consumers and makers. The creative process which results in such textile products is widely recognized as a communal one and set within centuries-long (real and imagined) historical contexts. This popular understanding includes a valorization of hand skills, particularly the improvizational fl…
Authenticity and Place-Based Knitwear
This article examines authenticity as it is understood and used within networks of makers in Shetland and Ireland, in places associated with fair isle and aran knitting. Drawing on 15 anonymised interviews and observations from a 2018–2019 study, the articles considers authenticity in relation to four themes: place, handwork, materials and deception. Those engaged in knitting related to small islands are inevitably confronted with demands for and…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)