This one-day workshop will explore the historical function of everyday rituals in the context of the British Empire. Ordinary daily practices have long been recognised as essential to the maintenance of cultural identities. From combing one’s hair to using the correct fork, notions of civility have been essential to constructions of social and racial difference and the perpetuation of those hierarchies within everyday life. At the same time, the reclaiming of certain daily practices has been an important expression of colonial resistance and a means through which to fashion identities within a post-colonial context. We are keen to explore how everyday life and its quotidian practices supported and challenged imperial structures, or became flashpoints in imperial relationships, identities, and cultural encounters.
This event is the first in a workshop series organised as part of the AHRC project ''Chemists to the Nation, Pharmacy to the World': Exploring the Global Dimensions of British Healthcare and Beauty with Boots The Chemists, 1919-1980'.
There are limited places available, please email Hilary Ingram at overtheglobalcounter@nottingham.ac.uk to book.
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University of NottinghamUniversity Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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