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Popular culture and understanding prosperity, inclusion and equity: A conversation

26 January 2023, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Favela in Brazil

The IGP welcomes Angela Jansen (Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion) for a Soundbite

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Institute for Global Prosperity

Location

E28, Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre
Gordon Street (25)
London
WC1H 0AY
United Kingdom

The Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF) is an experimental platform beyond institutional, disciplinary and geographical boundaries established in 2012. It aims to critique the denial and erasure of a diversity of fashioning systems due to unequal global power relations based on the modern-colonial order, the Euro-American canon of normativity and the exploitation and abuse of cultural heritages, human beings and natural resources.

The speaker
M. Angela Jansen is an independent fashion anthropologist based in Brussels, Belgium. Her publications include Moroccan Fashion: Design, Tradition and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Part of the 2023 Spring Series of Soundbites and Director's Seminars - Prosperity and the Popular 

Original image by anja_schindler from Pixabay