Precarious objects by Ilaria Vanni
Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy. As a category of labour and of global social experience in general, precarity is a wicked problem that affects all aspects of life, regulating the production and circulation of a wide range of material and immaterial effects. In this book, three microhistories of counter-precarity explore existent forms of resistance and resilience to precarity. Drawing on ethnographies and archives and bringing together debates from design theory, cultural studies and geography, this study shows how design objects and practices recode political communication and reorient how things are imagined, produced and circulated. It also shows how design as a practice can reconfigure material conditions and prefigure ways to repair some of the effects of precarity on everyday life.-
The culture of fashion
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The culture of craft
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The autobiography of a nation
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The Study of Dress History
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Arts and Crafts objects
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Quotations on Design and Material Culture
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Italian graphic design
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The Birth of Modern London
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Victorian Furniture
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The Edwardian House
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The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
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Graphic Design - Reproduction & Representation
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Chinoiserie
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Turning revolt into style
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Material Relations
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The Material Renaissance
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Windows for the World
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European Fashion
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Out of the Ivory Tower
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Enid Marx’s material modern
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Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
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Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement
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Confessions of monuments
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Celebrating the city
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Becoming couture
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'The industrialized designer'
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Art versus Industry?
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Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Anna of Denmark
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Critical Design in Japan
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Ideal Homes, 1918-39
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Building Reputations
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Comradely Objects
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Political and Sartorial Styles
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Crafting Identities
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Hot Metal
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Crafting Design in Italy
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Surface Tensions
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Representations of British Motoring
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Bringing Modernity Home
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Threads of globalization
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At home with the poor
Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney, is Associate Professor of International Studies and Global Societies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526135537 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526135531 |
| Title | Precarious objects |
| Author | Ilaria Vanni |
| Series | Studies In Design And Material Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2020-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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