Alison J Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 94277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison J Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison J |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5898-0804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Aesthetics of Social Aspiration
The British boom in home improvement during the 1980s was associated, by many academics, with the broader conservatism and materialism of Thatcherite politics. The ornamentation, decoration and conviviality associated with the middle-class parlour epitomized the notion of home decoration as an expressive (if highly prescriptive) practice perpetuating bourgeois values of social aspiration, material comfort and lineage. The isolation and oppression…
Actions Speak Louder”: Victor Papanek and the Legacy of Design Activism
Victor J. Papanek's Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (1971) is widely understood as the seminal text of twentieth-century design activism. Papanek, a Viennese émigré based in the USA, disseminated his ideas globally through lectures, broadcasts, and publications. This article uses previously unexplored primary sources to trace the origins of Papanek's design activism, asserting that his early activism has been incorrectl…
Design Anthropology
“Design Anthropology” brings together a unique range of cutting-edge design theorists and social scientists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers u
Consuming children and making mothers: Birthday Parties, Gifts and the Pursuit of Sameness
Children's birthday parties, and related consumption, form an integral part of the social process of mothering in contemporary consumer culture. From the choosing of the 'right' present to the arrangement of the 'appropriate' party theme, an enormous pressure is exerted upon mothers to maintain social equilibrium through the circulation of their children and gifts amongst and across households. Ethnographic research in Britain suggests that the e…
Sweet Dreams SecurityTM: Aesthetics for the Paranoid Home
Inspired by the banal contraptions of domestic security so commonplace in the British urban street, designer Matthias Megyeri, creates bespoke designs for the paranoid home. His repertoire includes the affectionately titled “Mr Smish and Madame Buttly” razor wire, intricately patterned but deceptively vicious barbed wire, that can be commissioned separately or together “as the dream team of security.” Similarly, the benign, animal figure finials …
Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills
Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution (review)
For those who assume nylon's greatest contribution to the sartorial world to have been the introduction of synthetic stockings to eager North American female consumers in 1938, Nylon offers a far more elaborate account of the manmade fiber's relation to fashion, from ready-made to couture [End Page 446] design. While the Philadelphia Record of 10 November 1938 called "Du Pont's New Fibre More Revolutionary Than Martian Attack," Susannah Handley r…
Fashion and Anxiety
Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
Journal Article Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. By Alison J. Clarke. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. xii, 241 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-56098-827-4.) Get access Nancy F. Koehn Nancy F. Koehn Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675038 …
Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
Je m'y connais peut-être en art mais je ne sais pas ce que j'aime
Cette observation ethnographique, réalisée dans les quartiers nord de Londres, sur la manière dont on choisit les objets de la vie quotidienne vient compléter l'étude de Bourdieu sur le contexte social du jugement esthétique. Ces données suggèrent que de tels jugements esthétiques sont rarement une simple rencontre « kantienne » entre des personnes et des objets isolés. Les individus s'appuient plutôt sur des processus sociaux pour découvrir ce q…
Fashion and Anxiety
Consuming children and making mothers: Birthday Parties, Gifts and the Pursuit of Sameness
Children's birthday parties, and related consumption, form an integral part of the social process of mothering in contemporary consumer culture. From the choosing of the 'right' present to the arrangement of the 'appropriate' party theme, an enormous pressure is exerted upon mothers to maintain social equilibrium through the circulation of their children and gifts amongst and across households. Ethnographic research in Britain suggests that the e…
Actions Speak Louder”: Victor Papanek and the Legacy of Design Activism
Victor J. Papanek's Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (1971) is widely understood as the seminal text of twentieth-century design activism. Papanek, a Viennese émigré based in the USA, disseminated his ideas globally through lectures, broadcasts, and publications. This article uses previously unexplored primary sources to trace the origins of Papanek's design activism, asserting that his early activism has been incorrectl…
Je m'y connais peut-être en art mais je ne sais pas ce que j'aime
Cette observation ethnographique, réalisée dans les quartiers nord de Londres, sur la manière dont on choisit les objets de la vie quotidienne vient compléter l'étude de Bourdieu sur le contexte social du jugement esthétique. Ces données suggèrent que de tels jugements esthétiques sont rarement une simple rencontre « kantienne » entre des personnes et des objets isolés. Les individus s'appuient plutôt sur des processus sociaux pour découvrir ce q…
Je m'y connais peut-être en art mais je ne sais pas ce que j'aime
Cette observation ethnographique, réalisée dans les quartiers nord de Londres, sur la manière dont on choisit les objets de la vie quotidienne vient compléter l'étude de Bourdieu sur le contexte social du jugement esthétique. Ces données suggèrent que de tels jugements esthétiques sont rarement une simple rencontre « kantienne » entre des personnes et des objets isolés. Les individus s'appuient plutôt sur des processus sociaux pour découvrir ce q…
Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
Journal Article Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. By Alison J. Clarke. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. xii, 241 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-56098-827-4.) Get access Nancy F. Koehn Nancy F. Koehn Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675038 …
Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution (review)
For those who assume nylon's greatest contribution to the sartorial world to have been the introduction of synthetic stockings to eager North American female consumers in 1938, Nylon offers a far more elaborate account of the manmade fiber's relation to fashion, from ready-made to couture [End Page 446] design. While the Philadelphia Record of 10 November 1938 called "Du Pont's New Fibre More Revolutionary Than Martian Attack," Susannah Handley r…
Fashion and Anxiety
Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills
Sweet Dreams SecurityTM: Aesthetics for the Paranoid Home
Inspired by the banal contraptions of domestic security so commonplace in the British urban street, designer Matthias Megyeri, creates bespoke designs for the paranoid home. His repertoire includes the affectionately titled “Mr Smish and Madame Buttly” razor wire, intricately patterned but deceptively vicious barbed wire, that can be commissioned separately or together “as the dream team of security.” Similarly, the benign, animal figure finials …
Consuming children and making mothers: Birthday Parties, Gifts and the Pursuit of Sameness
Children's birthday parties, and related consumption, form an integral part of the social process of mothering in contemporary consumer culture. From the choosing of the 'right' present to the arrangement of the 'appropriate' party theme, an enormous pressure is exerted upon mothers to maintain social equilibrium through the circulation of their children and gifts amongst and across households. Ethnographic research in Britain suggests that the e…
Design Anthropology
“Design Anthropology” brings together a unique range of cutting-edge design theorists and social scientists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers u
Actions Speak Louder”: Victor Papanek and the Legacy of Design Activism
Victor J. Papanek's Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (1971) is widely understood as the seminal text of twentieth-century design activism. Papanek, a Viennese émigré based in the USA, disseminated his ideas globally through lectures, broadcasts, and publications. This article uses previously unexplored primary sources to trace the origins of Papanek's design activism, asserting that his early activism has been incorrectl…
The Aesthetics of Social Aspiration
The British boom in home improvement during the 1980s was associated, by many academics, with the broader conservatism and materialism of Thatcherite politics. The ornamentation, decoration and conviviality associated with the middle-class parlour epitomized the notion of home decoration as an expressive (if highly prescriptive) practice perpetuating bourgeois values of social aspiration, material comfort and lineage. The isolation and oppression…
Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art, Technology, and Culture (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)