Book review:
Alex Sherlock reviews Ellen Sampson’s book ‘Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear’ for the academic journal Fashion Theory.
Taking Stock: a Footwear Research Review and Reading List
In the interest of expanding and advancing the field of footwear studies, the Footwear Research Network’s contributors have put their heads together to produce a list of recommended past and present academic texts upon which to build future contributions.
The Rise of the Slipper
Wearing slippers while working from home? The Covid pandemic has caused a rise in slipper sales and an increased awareness of these very private and intimate forms of footwear. Following an interview for the Guardian Australia, Alex Sherlock asks what slippers might tell us about ourselves.
“Everybody haffi ask weh mi get mi Clarks”
Fashion Consumption and Cultural Exchange: Conference paper delivered at the AAANZ Conference Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies, 3-6 December, 2019 at The University of Auckland.
‘This is not a shoe’: doctoral thesis
‘This is Not a Shoe: An Exploration of the Co-Constitutive Relationship Between Representations and Embodied Experiences of Shoes’, doctoral thesis assessed by Dr. Agnès Rocamora and Dr. Katherine Davies, awarded April 2017.
‘The last thing I want is my shoes to stand out’
American Sociological Association blog article exploring embodied experience, identity and footwear choice amongst patients with complex health conditions.
'It's kind of where the shoe gets you to I suppose':
Materializing Identity with Footwear.
Open source article in the ‘Materiality’ issue of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, edited by Sophie Woodward and Tom Fisher, published by Intellect.
High Heels – Power or Patriarchy?
Emily Nichols discusses her shoe-related findings from ‘A Girls’ Night Out Research Project’ at Newcastle University, investigating (in)appropriate femininity on a night out in Newcastle.
Dressed Bodies Symposium
The ‘If the Shoe Fits’ project team hosted a one-day symposium at Sheffield University on 17th July 2013. The stellar line-up of speakers included Lucia Ruggerone, Naomi Braithwaite, Anna Catalini, Karen Harvey, Julia Twigg and Chrissy Buse, Karin Lovgren, Mary Madden, Emily Taylor, Emily Nicholls, Jacki Willson, Alison Carr and Pam Walker.
do you wear Clarks Originals?
Call for focus group participants -
The ‘If the Shoe Fits’ project in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield is now approaching its end, however there is still time to participate in the research.
Young Men, Footwear and the 'Doing' of Masculinities
Conference paper for the Canadian Sociological Association Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria British Columbia, 3rd-8th June 2013.