Ecologies of Diversity focuses on research into the mechanisms and social environments that instill cultures of marginalisation, as well as the conditions that foster and value diversity.
At a glance
- Ecologies of Diversity offers visibility and support for research on the entanglements of diversity and marginalisation. We aim to create a welcoming meeting place for researchers examining how diversity and marginality are manifested and operate within wider cultural 'ecologies'.
- Ecologies of Diversity aims to generate companionable encounters, connecting researchers committed to social justice. Collective but not centralised, we aim to be the mycelium or connective tissue that joins and nurtures anyone working on questions of diversity and social inequality.
- Ecologies of Diversity do not define diversity, except as a state of variety. But diversity in our research may include race, gender, ability, sexuality, species, religion, culture, health, age, biological characteristics, neurological characteristics and any other organising principle through which inclusion/exclusion dynamics occur.
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Activities
Inaugural Ecologies of Diversity Research lecture ‘Contact Zone’
Given by Professor Sarah Cheang and Dr Alana Jelinek as part of SoAH Presents. Monday 8 December, 5.30-7.30pm, Gorvy Lecture Theatre.
Outputs
2025/26
Alana Jelinek. ‘People and Stuff: A Subversive Collaboration’ (2023-2025). Large-scale site-specific painting and research output, Andrews Gallery, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Alana Jelinek. ‘Grafiti en el museo: multivocalidad e inclusión a través del arte’, El Futuro del Pasado, with Jimena Arenas and Sarah-Jane Harknett, 10.14201/fdp.31826
Sarah Cheang. With Erica de Greef. ‘Holding Space, Creating Changes’ in Marco Pecorari (ed) Fashion in Theory: Historization, Concepts and Methodologies. Manchester University Press, 2025.
2024/25
Sarah Cheang. (2024). Decolonizando o Currículo? transformação, emoções e posicionamento docente: urgência que cruza caminhos, geografias e posicionalidades. (2024) Revista de Ensino em Artes, Moda e Design. 8. 1-20. 10.5965/25944630812024e4998. With Douglas Santos, Vieira, L., Medrado, M. and Shehnaz Suterwalla.
Sarah Cheang. ‘Flowers, Feathers and Hair: Fashion and Design Innovation’, in China’s 1800s: Material and Visual Culture. London: British Museum, 2024.
2023/24
Sarah Cheang. In Between Breaths: Memories, Stories, and Otherwise Design Histories. Sarah Cheang, Irani, K., Rezende, L. & Suterwalla, S. (2023). Journal of Design History. 36. 10.1093/jdh/epac038.
Sarah Cheang. ‘Chinese Design: An Asian Presence on the Fashion Stage.’ In Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style. Cameron & Company, 2024. Pp. 32-37
Sarah Cheang. With Shehnaz Suterwalla ‘Explorations in the OPEN.’ In Valery Vinogradovs (ed). Aesthetic Literacy Volume II: Out of Mind. Mongrel Matter, 2023. Pp 230-236.
Alana Jelinek. The Greeks Have 6 Words For Love, One Act Play commissioned for the Season of Bangla Drama, funded by Tower Hamlets Council, Arts Council England, Royal College of Art and Crowdfunder. With Annalea Doyle and Deni Francis. Directed by Maheen Mohammadally
2022/23
Sarah Cheang. Decolonizing fashion [studies] as process. (2022) International Journal of Fashion Studies. 9. 247-255. 10.1386/infs_00070_2. With Leslie Rabine and Arti Sandhu
Alana Jelinek. Museum of Epistemology, ‘Are you Seeing What I’m Seeing’ curated by Liz Murton, UH Gallery, University of Hertfordshire
Sarah Cheang. ‘Pausing for thought: Lost and found’, International Journal of Fashion Studies, 9.3: 429-437.
Sarah Cheang. ‘Being Chiang Yee: Feeling, Difference and Story-telling.’ In Paul Bevan, Anne Witchard and Da Zheng (eds). Chiang Yee and his Circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain 1930–1950. Hong Kong University Press, 2022. Pp.37-50.
Sarah Cheang. With Erica de Greef and Takagi Yoko. Rethinking Fashion Globalization. London: Bloomsbury, August 2021.
Sarah Cheang. With Elizabeth Kramer ‘Global connections and fashion histories: East Asian embroidered garments.’ In Sarah Cheang, Erica de Greef and Takagi Yoko (eds). Rethinking Fashion Globalization. London: Bloomsbury, August 2021. Pp.37-64.
Sarah Cheang. ‘“Ici reside le secret de notre force”: LOfficiel as Globalism.’ in L’Officiel 100: One Hundred People and ideas from a Century in Fashion. Marsilio, 2021. Pp.260-263.
