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Research Projects
Modernist Women and Visual Studies
Maggie Humm
A series of research projects and pubications in Woolf Studies and modernism with a focus on gender issues and the visual arts. More about these projects in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdMJJjGVz4&feature=youtu.be
Social Movements and Legislative Processes: Violence against Women in Morocco
Aura Lounasmaa
I am at the write-up stage of my PhD thesis in which I study the strategies, language and narratives of women’s NGO activism in Morocco. The study aims to locate Moroccan women’s activism in the context of both Morocco and of transnational women’s activism. I use the theory of Sally Engle Merry of vernacularisation of global norms into local practices in examining the processes of activism in the political and cultural context of Morocco. Main themes that arise from my fieldwork with women’s NGOs in Morocco in 2011 are democratisation and modernity. Moroccanness, Islam and transnational women’s rights movement all inform the competing narratives of activism, modernity and democracy. These narratives are central to defining organisations’ referential and guiding their actions.
Background with needles: a genealogy of the seamstress
Maria Tamboukou, University of East London
This is a British Academy funded life-historyresearch project, which traces, collects, archives, analyses and discusses auto/biographical narratives of home-based dressmakers and women working in the garment industry. The project spans a range of geographies, histories and disciplinary fields and focuses on the force of narratives in illuminating interrelations between women’s labour and its memory, personal, domestic and public spaces, migration histories, political activism, adult education and women workers’ forceful intervention in the cultural and intellectual life of the twentieth century.
