Key ideas, theories, concepts that have guided our research: Decolonial, creolised identity politics, community based/focused; the work that machine learning can’t do; looking beyond the algorithm. Considerations towards gender, class, race, and taste profiles ; representation, access, agency - changing tides within the space.
Frameworks that have guided our research:
- Smith, L. T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples (2nd ed.). Zed Books.
- Morgado, M. (1996) ‘Coming to Terms with Postmodern: Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Culture and Their Implications for Apparel Scholars,’ Clothing and Textile Research Journal 14
- Entwistle, J. (2000) The Fashioned Body: Fashion Dress and Modern Social Theory. Polity Press in Association with Blackwell, Cambridge.
- Negrin, L. (2008). Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity. Palgrave Macmillan
- Flugel, J. C. (1930). The Psychology of Clothes. Hogarth Press
- Pickering, J. (2014). Classy looks and classificatory gazes: The fashioning of class in reality television. Film, Fashion & Consumption,
‘heterosexual matrix’
• We see ‘gender’ forms through heterosexuality
• We have only understood ‘gender’ through heterosexuality