Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion

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ID9026048
AuthorsErica de Greef (0000-0002-4152-528X), Shayna Goncalves, Angela Jansen (0000-0002-9345-5244)
Year2021
Volume54
Issue4
Pages1-5
Publication date2021-10-21
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Arts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-9933 • E-ISSN: 1937-2108
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/afar_a_00608
OpenAlexW3209497259
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

October 21 2021 Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion Erica de Greef, Erica de Greef Erica de Greef is codirector and cofounder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has lectured and practiced widely in the field of fashion curation and fashion pedagogy in South Africa. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Shayna Goncalves, Shayna Goncalves Shayna Goncalves is currently building a decolonial marketing and educational reform practice focused on using business to sustain fair trade and social equity. With colleagues, Shayna is instituting an experiential creative production course at a higher education, creative business institution and developing a course for a youth development afterschool program. She speaks and guest lectures on the intersectionality of identity politics, business and fashion theories. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Angela Jansen Angela Jansen Angela Jansen is an independent researcher, educator, consultant, curator and director of the RCDF Foundation. She is the author of Moroccan Fashion: Design, Tradition and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-editor with Jennifer Craik of Modern Fashion Traditions (Bloomsbury, 2016). She also guest edited with Toby Slade a special issue of Fashion Theory on Decoloniality and Fashion (Vol 24: 6, 2020). [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Erica de Greef Erica de Greef is codirector and cofounder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has lectured and practiced widely in the field of fashion curation and fashion pedagogy in South Africa. [email protected] Shayna Goncalves Shayna Goncalves is currently building a decolonial marketing and educational reform practice focused on using business to sustain fair trade and social equity. With colleagues, Shayna is instituting an experiential creative production course at a higher education, creative business institution and developing a course for a youth development afterschool program. She speaks and guest lectures on the intersectionality of identity politics, business and fashion theories. [email protected] Angela Jansen Angela Jansen is an independent researcher, educator, consultant, curator and director of the RCDF Foundation. She is the author of Moroccan Fashion: Design, Tradition and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-editor with Jennifer Craik of Modern Fashion Traditions (Bloomsbury, 2016). She also guest edited with Toby Slade a special issue of Fashion Theory on Decoloniality and Fashion (Vol 24: 6, 2020). [email protected] Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California2021Regents of the University of California African Arts (2021) 54 (4): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00608 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Search Site Citation Erica de Greef, Shayna Goncalves, Angela Jansen; Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion. African Arts 2021; 54 (4): 1–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00608 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search In her First Word “STEAMed Up: Or, A Defense of the Humanities Through African Art History,” Victoria Rovine (2016: 1) wrote, Five years later, in the thick of a global pandemic, Angela Jansen, Erica de Greef, and Shayna Goncalves find themselves transgressing geographical, academic, institutional, age, race, and gender boundaries to convene, on the first Saturday of each month, the Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion (de Greef, Goncalves, and Jansen 2021). Some of the people Rovine referenced in her First Word might reiterate their arguments toward decoloniality, as with humanities or African art, that decoloniality and fashion studies are “the exemplars of financially fruitless majors” (Rovine 2016: 1) or that majors in decoloniality or fashion studies will receive far fewer incentives than their engineering counterparts. These financial projections, however,... © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California2021Regents of the University of California You do not currently have access to this content

Active listening · Art · Art history · Decoloniality · Intersectionality · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Law

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