{"id":4947,"date":"2024-09-14T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=4947"},"modified":"2024-09-14T18:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T16:08:19","slug":"dutch-mountains","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/portfolio\/dutch-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Mountains; Encounters on Post-Consumer Textile Sorting Trails in Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\">During my Master&#8217;s fieldwork in Social and Cultural Anthropology I followed traces of second-hand textiles in Rotterdam.\u00a0<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Dutch Mountains, the title of my Master&#8217;s thesis refers to <\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">the rapidly growing but rather hidden accumulation of clothing waste in the Netherlands. Dutch inhabitants consume 46 clothes per person a year on average; twice as much as 20 years ago. However, what happens after people discard clothes in a textile container appears to be hidden from the public eye. I followed trails of textile abundance which led me to two thrifting companies and their employees, who attend to Rotterdam&#8217;s second hand clothes. At the Textile Sorting Center in Rotterdam Waalhaven, over 55 employees &#8211; distanced from the labor market \u2013 take care of sorting textiles and footwear discarded in Rotterdam&#8217;s textile containers. They are mediated through programs facilitated by the municipality of Rotterdam. Policies of creating jobs while building a circular economy seem to have many advantages. However, these policies neglect the consequences of exporting second-hand clothes beyond Dutch borders. Exports to countries like Ghana not only shift environmental burdens but also alter the social fabric of those societies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The outcomes of my anthropological field research offer a non-linear exploration of Textile Sorting Practices in Rotterdam, inspired by Deleuze and Guattari (1987), and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). I immersed myself by sorting, categorizing, and prizing textiles with employees of the Textile Sorting Center exploring transitions of human and non-human actants, such as objects of textiles, procedures, abundance, triggers, and hope. Additionally, I took my pencils and sketchbook with me to draw. I invite you to follow traces of discarded textiles in Rotterdam and accompany me through \u2018Dutch Mountains&#8217; as a multi-layered landscape of Rotterdam&#8217;s textile stories intertwined with global realities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my Master&#8217;s fieldwork in Social and Cultural Anthropology I followed traces of second-hand textiles in Rotterdam.\u00a0Dutch Mountains, the title of my Master&#8217;s thesis refers to the rapidly growing but rather hidden accumulation of clothing waste in the Netherlands. Dutch inhabitants consume 46 clothes per person a year on average; twice as much as 20&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[63],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4947","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-visual-anthropology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4947\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angeliqueviester.nl\/start\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}