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Humanitarian handicraft

History, materiality and trade, c. 1840-1980

Edited by Rebecca Gill, Claire Barber, Helen Dampier and Bertrand Taithe

Humanitarian handicraft
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  • ISBN: 9781526188021
  • Publish Date: Sep 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    This book uncovers the overlooked history of artisanal textiles in projects aimed at social uplift and moral reform. The contributors ask what the implications of this form of gendered craft production are for our understanding of the humanitarian imagination, relations of humanitarian production and the generation of meaning and social and artistic value. It also opens a dialogue with contemporary socially-engaged textile artists to engender critical reflection on the socially-situated meaning of textile craft in past and present humanitarian contexts.

    Contents

    Introduction: the meanings and making of humanitarian handicraft - Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe
    1 Literary visions of craft and cooperation in the European handmade lace revival, c. 1840-1914 - David Hopkin
    2 Work of hands: humanitarian craft and fair trade in Britain and Ireland, 1885-1914 - Janice Helland
    3 Thinking Anglo-American industrial relief through Armenian needlework in the late 1890s: humanitarian marketing ethics, agency and identity - Stéphanie Prévost
    4 Emily Hobhouse and the Koppies Lace School, 1908-26 - Helen Dampier and Rebecca Gill
    5 Beyond gratitude. Belgian women, humanitarian organisations and lace-aid programmes in the First World War - Wendy Wiertz
    6 Threads of friendship: Quaker women, 'peasant handicrafts' and educational reconstruction in Russia and Poland, 1916-39 - Siân Roberts
    7 Politics woven as missionary craft: the carpets of the White Fathers and Sisters from the 1920s - Bertrand Taithe
    8 Caught in the net: cooperation of lacemakers in the Vologda region, 1880s-1930s - Elizaveta Berezina
    9 Crafting Communist Paternalism: the voices of lacemakers in Koniaków, Poland, 1947-62 - Nicolette Makovicky
    10 Humanitarian handicrafts as (dis)empowerment of women 'left behind'. A Swedish help to self-help project in the Northern Greek village Vlasti, 1963-88 - Maria Småberg
    11 Humanitarian handicrafts: in conversation - Catherine Bertola, Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill and June Hill
    Afterword - Jessica Hemmings

    Editors

    Claire Barber is Senior Lecturer in Textiles at the University of Huddersfield
    Helen Dampier is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University
    Rebecca Gill is Reader in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield
    Bertrand Taithe is Professor of History at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester

    Humanitarian handicraft

    Edited by Rebecca Gill, Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Bertrand Taithe

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