Hosted by the Nottingham branch of the Geographical Association

Presented by Professor Louise Crewe, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and School of Geography, University of Nottingham

In this lecture, I invite you to join me on a journey that connects people, places and objects together in ways that are scarcely imaginable. The fashion industry brings certain spaces, places and people into high relief, whilst masking the global inequalities, abuses of labour standards and environmental catastrophes that underpin the industry. The lecture argues for a relational view of scale that begins to break down many of the assumptions about discrete fashion spaces. It reveals the complex connections between bodies and economy, between life and capital. That which seems most priceless – sentient life – is being commodified and marketised in important ways. The distinctions between fast and slow, luxury and discount, here and there, begin to unravel during the course of this lecture, revealing a number of unequal and unsettling geographies in the making.

Louise Crewe is a Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. She is also Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and a Senior Fellow of the HEA. She teaches a final year undergraduate module on The Geographies of Fashion and Food and undertakes research on fashion, the body, consumption, digital fashion and commodification. She has written a book on Second Hand Cultures of Fashion and more recently the book The Geographies of Fashion, Bloomsbury (2017)

Schools are encouraged to bring A Level geography students to this lecture and are invited to attend a pre-lecture session titled Changing geographies of the Lace Market - a story in maps. This takes place at 4.15pm. You are required to register for the lecture using the link above (you can select multiple tickets) but will also need to register for this pre-lecture session (tickets are limited and allocated on a first come first serve basis).

Refreshments will be provided after the lecture and there will be opportunity for informal conversation with University Tutors.

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