Chapter 1 Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence

• Main Author: Kucheran, Riley (auth)
• Other Authors: Clark, Jessica P. (auth), Lezama, Nigel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Intellect 2022
• Subjects: The arts; Cultural studies; Media studies; Canada; Fashion design & theory; "luxury; Canadian fashion; Montreal; Indigenous; production; fashion; history; colonialism; canada; luxury studies; community; consumption"
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Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence Riley Kucheran with Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama In this discussion, Riley Kucheran, a member of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (Pic River First Nation), shares his experiences and insights working with his community to promote artisanal production and land-based design education. This intervention highlights the current movement of Indigenous cultural resurgence that challenges hegemonic perceptions of the exclusive circulation of capital in settler-colonial and Eurocentric production systems. Kucheran sheds new light on how Indigenous making recentres both production and consumption and disengages the myth of the idealized creator-genius that typifies the cultural output of western modernity. Kucheran is an assistant professor of Design Leadership at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Fashion.