Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture joined the canon of international research journals dedicated to Fashion, Dress and Textile Studies in 2003, the founder editors being Janis Jefferies and Pennina Barnett, both at that time part of the Textiles and Visual Culture departments at Goldsmiths’ College University of London.

In their opening statement for Issue 1, Janis and Pennina acknowledged that the term ‘textile’ was open to debate and argument across disciplines, borders and cultures, and they set out – not to define, refine or opine that term – but to enable a range of global voices that would challenge, innovate, distinguish recover and play with definitions that would enliven international textile discourse.

They stated that they and textile culture in its widest sense was at ‘a moment’, a point where convergence and complication across a dynamic and - to borrow Rosalind Krauss’s term - expanded field was so apparent that it demanded attention.

Textile: the journal of Cloth and Culture was born, immediately linking critical practices across visual and material culture, studio work and digital culture, both the manufacture and the hand-production of textile objects and artefacts, cultural theory, political economy, philosophy, feminism, anthropology and psychoanalysis. The Editorial Board further opened the richness of knowledge and expertise that informed the heavyweight content of the journal.

Comments

  • This paper was presented to ACORSO, Le Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique: Apparences, Corps et Sociétés on November 18th 2022 . The conference theme was‘Assessing Current Research Journals dealing with the Past and Present of Dress, Textiles, Appearance and related Social, Cultural, Gendered, Economic and Museology Issues’, and the venue was globally online and Le Centre de Colloque, Sorbonne - CAMPUS CONDORCET, Place du Front Popular, Paris.

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