B. Lynne Milgram, PhD
B. Lynne Milgram is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her research on gender and development in the Philippines analyzes the cultural politics of social change with regard to women's small-scale and “informal” sector work (e.g., crafts, used clothing, street vending), fair trade and microfinance. This research has been published in edited volumes and in scholarly journals. She has also co-edited:
- Grimes, K. M. and B. L. Milgram, eds. 2000. Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
- Hamilton, R. W. and B. L. Milgram, eds. 2007. Material Choices: Refashioning Leaf and Bast Fibres in Asia and the Pacific. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Lynne Milgram's current research explores Philippine women's engagement in the global trade of secondhand clothing within the Philippines and between the Philippines and Hong Kong. She suggests that since the early 1990s with the growing trade in secondhand clothing from Northern to Southern countries, Philippine women and men have used this transnational trade to realize new opportunities in work and consumption. She explores how Philippine women traders, in particular, engage these used goods across diverse cultural and economic spheres to dissolve assumptions of fixed dichotomies and dominance and to reconceptualize global processes from a gendered perspective and as multiple and ongoing.
Preliminary findings from this research are published in:
- Milgram, B. L. (under review) Crafting Activism, Negotiating Markets: Women and the Cross-Border Trade of Secondhand Clothing between Hong Kong and the Philippines. Article under review with Urban Anthropology. Special Issue on ‘Gender and Transnationalism' (2008), edited by Mary Beth Mills.
- Milgram, B. L. 2005. Ukay-Ukay Chic: Tales of Secondhand Clothing Fashion and Trade in the Philippine Cordillera. In Old Clothes, New Looks: Secondhand Fashion. A. Palmer and H. Clark, eds., 135-153. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
- Milgram, B. L. 2004. Refashioning Commodities: Women and the Sourcing and Circulation of Secondhand Clothing in the Philippines. Anthropologica, Special issue: Commodities, Capitalization and Globalization. 46 (2): 123-136.
Lynne Milgram is also engaged in researching and conducting applied work with a fair trade women's cooperative in urban Manila, Philippines that uses recycled plastic juice drink containers to manufacture a variety of carrying bags, fashion accessories and home furnishing products. She is exploring the extent to which these women have been able to utilize fair trade networks for marketing and product development to craft viable new products for global markets. This research is published in:
- Milgram, B. L. (under review) From Discarded Container to Fashion Accessory: Reclaiming and Recycling Besura (garbage) for Work Alternatives in the Urban Philippines. In Fashion, Material Culture and Economic Life: Perspectives Across Time, Place and Politics. Beverly Lemire, ed.
- Milgram, B. L. 2005. Juicing Up for Fair Trade. Cultural Survival Quarterly (Sept. 2005): 47-49.
Financial support for Lynne Milgram's research has been provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Doctor Fellowship (1993-1996), Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1997-1999) and Standard Research Grants (2000-2003, and 2004-2007), by OCAD Faculty Research Grants (2000, 2003), and by a travel grant from Canada/ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) (1995). In the Philippines, Lynne Milgram is affiliated as a Research Associate with the Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, Baguio City.
Mailing Address
B. Lynne Milgram, Ph.D.
Faculty of Liberal Studies
Ontario College of Art & Design
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1W1
Tel: (416) 977-6000 ext. 1680
Fax: (416) 977-6006
E-mail: lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca
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