Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear
As we enter the last 4 months of the If the Shoe Fits project the team are analysing and writing up the data that has been gathered over the last 3 years. At the end of February the first of our publications made it into the peer-reviewed journal Sociological Research Online.
A Week in Mary Beard's Shoes
Over the last week social media feeds have been rife with comments about historian Mary Beard's controversial decision to 'come out' and write about her love of shoes for the Daily Mail (8th May 2013). With almost 3 years of research on the sociological significance of shoes now behind us the ITSF team felt compelled to contribute to the debate by responding to Turner’s attack.
Call for Papers: 'Dressed Bodies: A Symposium'
To mark the end of the three-year research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition, funded by the ESRC, we are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Sheffield. We invite submissions investigating the dressed body in social and cultural contexts with a concern to deepen understandings of identity as an embodied process.
If the Shoe Fits: Project film
This short film, produced by Sheffield Vision, introduces our research project at the University of Sheffield which is finding out how shoes contribute to people's identities and the ways in which footwear enables them to move between different parts of their lives.
An Industry Perspective of the development of the Shoe
The footwear industry dates back to cobbler stores in medieval times. Since then, many changes have occurred in the footwear market…
Festival of the Mind - Researchers' Night
A selection of shoe stories collected at the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ exhibition, part of the Festival of the Mind, at the University of Sheffield.
Putting shoes on show
A review of the exhibition process. Exhibiting research for the ESRC-funded If the Shoe Fits research project at ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 5th December 2011 – 3rd January 2012
'Boots are made for talking, about who we are'
Review of Virginia Postrel’s article for Bloomberg View.
Shoe-Watching on Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street: perhaps London's most famous shoe-shopping location. Filmed during a lunch hour this seven and a half minute video observes the shoes of those passing through the popular location.
'Master of pain' - A Podiatrist's Response
Head of Podiatry Service at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Professor Wesley Vernon OBE, offers a clinical perspective on Claudia Croft’s recent Sunday Times interview with footwear designer Christian Louboutin.
If the Shoe Fits, If the Dog Fetches
Professor Kath Woodward reflects on the powerful capacity of shoes to connect us with others, past and present, human and non-human.
Graduation shoes
Professor Jenny Hockey offers an anthropological perspective on graduation shoes and rites of passage.