Untangling the ethics of "sustainable" cashmere
| date | 2020-03-13 |
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| meetingName | University of Winnipeg Skywalk Lectures Series |
| key | 6GAHN5XQ |
| version | 211 |
| title | Untangling the ethics of "sustainable" cashmere |
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| itemType | presentation |
| dateAdded | 2024-08-07T03:18:33Z |
| presentationType | Public talk |
| dateModified | 2024-08-07T06:07:21Z |
| place | Millennium Library, Winnipeg |
| abstractNote | Is cashmere the sustainable textile of the future? Recently, several clothing brands begun marketing cashmere as “ethically produced” from “sustainable fibres”, positioning sustainability as a new marker of luxury. Garment labels proclaim affiliations with fair trade and resource management initiatives that target Mongolian goat herders, who produce 90% of the world’s cashmere. But on the ground in Mongolia, ideas of what is “ethical” or “sustainable” are much more complex than these labels suggest. Drawing on his ethnographic research among mobile pastoralists, Dr. Eric Thrift untangles the ethics of the global cashmere commodity chain. |