Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, c. 18401980
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, c. 18401980
By (Author) Rebecca Gill
Edited by Claire Barber
Edited by Helen Dampier
Edited by Bertrand Taithe
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
7th January 2026
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Aid and relief programmes
Fashion and textile design
Physical Properties
Hardback
320
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
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
