Alexandra Franklin

There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness: Deconstructing the hip-hop ‘ho’ (2019)
Book Chapter

Fashion has long been used to differentiate between prostitutes and ‘respectable’ members of society. Whether through state enforced sumptuary laws or less formally imposed but equally codified visual markers, the identity category of ‘prostitute’ h... Read More about There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness: Deconstructing the hip-hop ‘ho’.

Editorial: Intersectional dress (2018)
Journal Article

The study of dress and adornment practices is perforce the study of the materialisation of intersecting identities. Class, gender, sexuality, age, race, dis/ability and other identity markers are all writ large on an individual’s clothed body and Cre... Read More about Editorial: Intersectional dress.

Ageing by design: The role of the art school in creating a sustainable future (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Many designers in the UK - including graphic designers, communication designers, textile designers, interior designers and fashion designers, to name but a few - all start their professional training in an Art School. The educating of designers along... Read More about Ageing by design: The role of the art school in creating a sustainable future.

Relational ethics and the institution as 'intimate other' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will explore the responsibilities and risks attendant to engaging in autoethnographic research wherein the researcher’s gaze is turned on the context in which they are operating and their employing institution becomes an identifiable other... Read More about Relational ethics and the institution as 'intimate other'.

Unravelling Miss Marple: Knitting, intuition and ageing femininity (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

'I envisage you knitting more jackets, head scarves and a good many other things of which I do not know the name. If you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least fin... Read More about Unravelling Miss Marple: Knitting, intuition and ageing femininity.

Auditing creativity? The UK Art School in the age of neoliberalism (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Short abstract This paper will examine the role that the HEI Art School plays in both normalising and resisting the standardisation of the artist/designer in the UK and reflect on the growing influence of systems of 'coercive accountability' (Shor... Read More about Auditing creativity? The UK Art School in the age of neoliberalism.

Editorial: Why ageing matters! (2017)
Journal Article

The special issue of Clothing Cultures that this editorial introduces is concerned with the relationship between ageing and dress or, more specifically, ‘old age’ and dress. It outlines the rationale behind why the Special Issue: Ageing and Dres... Read More about Editorial: Why ageing matters!.

Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will first establish that 'the elderly' are habitually othered in the texts that endeavour to describe 'them' and their 'needs'. It will then argue that an intersectional conceptualising of identity construction aids a researcher who is en... Read More about Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy.

Age-appropriate dress? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to contribute to the developing body of literature spanning dress, fashion and sociological theory which is concerned with unpicking the way in which the category of ‘old age’ is enacted within a symbolic economy of difference. More s... Read More about Age-appropriate dress?.

Spirit of ‘68.The ‘next’ role of the art/design school? (2017)
Journal Article

From the current political and cultural landscape, the workshop sought to develop discussions surrounding the potential for art and design education to instigate and make socio-political comment and change. The rationale for the study coincides with... Read More about Spirit of ‘68.The ‘next’ role of the art/design school?.

Widening participation: Rethinking the role of the HEI (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will outline some of the key findings of the ‘Entry Level Employment in Bristol’s Creative Industries Sectors’ [ELEBCIS] research project; a study commissioned by Bristol City Council’s [BCC] Economy Team and funded by BCC, the Univ... Read More about Widening participation: Rethinking the role of the HEI.

Bristol Parkhive: An interdisciplinary approach to employability for arts, humanities and education students in a supercomplex world (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will present the Bristol Parkhive project as a model for sustainable and mutually beneficial collaboration between universities, local governments and local community organisations. Bristol Parkhive is an innovative collaborative project d... Read More about Bristol Parkhive: An interdisciplinary approach to employability for arts, humanities and education students in a supercomplex world.

Spirit of ’68: The ‘next’ role of the art/design school? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Warwick Commission Report (2015)[i] concluded that the arts in the UK were in crisis and, regardless of political rhetoric[ii], continual cuts in government subsidy[iii] plus cuts in arts subjects in schools had created a two-tiered predominantly... Read More about Spirit of ’68: The ‘next’ role of the art/design school?.

Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will outline the methodological rationale behind the use of an analytic autoethnographic (Anderson 2006) approach to the study of aging when the researcher is not a full member of the (age) group being studied. In this instance the aut... Read More about Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman.

Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will outline the findings of the author's 2016 study examining the online clothes shopping practices of female consumers aged 65+ in the UK; this age group is one which is growing significantly in the UK [1] but remains at best largely ove... Read More about Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman.

Phenomenal dress! A personal phenomenology of clothing (2014)
Journal Article

The principle aim of this paper is to contribute to the development of a phenomenology of fashion through an analysis of the roots of my relationship with clothing - and hence fashion - using Heidegger's phenomenology of Being as outlined in 'Being a... Read More about Phenomenal dress! A personal phenomenology of clothing.

Editorial (2013)
Journal Article

Welcome to the first issue of Clothing Cultures. The aim of this new journal is to carve out ‘clothing culture’ as a discipline in its own right, distinct from but complimentary to the work currently being developed in fashion theory, material cultur... Read More about Editorial.

Cole's from Newcastle (2013)
Journal Article

Cheryl Cole – ex-judge of UK TV’s The X-Factor, ex-WAG of Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole, celebrated Geordie, sometime singer, fulltime ‘style icon’ and possessor of aspirational hair - represents a prime example of a hegemonic performanc... Read More about Cole's from Newcastle.

The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on literature from play studies, developmental psychology, gender studies and phenomenology, this paper will argue for a conception of fashion as an extension of the play behaviours key to a child's psychosocial development and mental health.... Read More about The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion.

Gendered violence (2012)
Journal Article

Cole’s from Newcastle (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper the complex interweaving of beauty, class, power and powerlessness that is Cheryl Cole will be explored. Cole - UK TV’s The X-Factor judge, ex-WAG of Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole, celebrated Geordie, sometime singer, fullt... Read More about Cole’s from Newcastle.

Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper employ Heideggarian phenomenology to argue that the postmodern, post-industrial being’s relationship with their ‘bodily nature’ is fundamentally ‘unnatural’ in character and that the mediation responsible for this disruption begins in chil... Read More about Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll.

Nicole (2011)
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“There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’ (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fashion has long been used to differentiate between prostitutes and ‘respectable’ members of society. Whether through state enforced sumptuary laws or less formally imposed but equally codified visual markers, the identity category of ‘prostitute’ ha... Read More about “There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’.

Editorial (2011)
Journal Article

20 year anniversary issue of the Journal of Gender Studies

Nicole (2010)
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Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Employing a Heideggerian phenomenology of Being, this paper will argue that toys such as Bratz dolls, Barbie, and Disney Princesses contribute to an environment that fosters an ‘unnatural’ relationship between pre-adults and their ‘bodily nature’; ar... Read More about Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world.

Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will explore the impact of a gendered ‘thing’ – the Bratz doll - on the postmodern, post-industrial individual’s relationship with their ‘bodily nature’. It will argue, employing a Heideggerian phenomenology of Being, that this relationshi... Read More about Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world.

Nicole (2010)
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Nicole (2009)
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First space: On 'being' a researcher (2009)
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All anthropological and archaeological knowledges or ‘facts’ are mediated by at least one researcher before their dissemination to an audience, and the impact of this mediation on the resultant texts must be understood if the potentially solipsistic... Read More about First space: On 'being' a researcher.

Nicole (2009)
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