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Redressing Fashion
Have you ever imagined fashion being as diverse as human culture? Have you ever dreamed of a respectful, ethical, and socially just fashion industry? Have you ever envisioned sustainability being at the core of the entire fashion system?Join fashion curator, researcher and educator, Laura Beltran-Rubio, in the quest to translate scholarly insights into actionable strategies to reshape how we create, wear, and think about fashion. Language: en Genres: Arts, Fashion & Beauty Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Fashion, ecology, and plastic-free living with Dr Georgia Ennis
Episode 8
Thursday, 6 November, 2025
In this episode, Laura talks with Dr Georgia Ennis about plastic-free living, sustainable fashion, and the close connection between plastic-free fashion and language ecologies in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They share insights on how to conduct research as allies of Indigenous peoples worldwide, embrace slower approaches to fashion, and bring scholarly research outside of academia. Tune in to learn about culture reclamation among speakers of Amazonian Kichwa and practice-based strategies on how to realistically live with less plastic in a plastic world!Relevant linksAMUPAKIN’s website: https://amupakinachimamas.com/AMUPAKIN’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amupakin/AMUPAKIN’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amupakin.achimamas--Georgia’s website: https://www.georgiaennis.com/ Georgia’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plasticfreephd/Georgia-s book: Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2025)--References & further readingsChef Sean Sherman (The Sioux Chef): https://seansherman.com/ Susan Strasser, Waste and want: A social history of trash (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2000)Kyle Whyte, “Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice,” Environment and Society 9, no. 1 (2018): 125–44.See also Kyle Whyte’s website: https://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/kyle-whyte Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
