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Katherine V Gough

Professor of Human Geography Loughborough University
Katherine V Gough

Katherine V Gough is Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University.

 
 
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Cotton Production / Brazil Overview Interview
Decades of agricultural science have made Brazil a global cotton force, demonstrating what sustained public research investment can deliver for an entire sector.

Brazil Cotton: Traceability Promises Are Running Ahead of What Most Farmers Can Actually Deliver

  • Subir Ghosh

18 May 2026
Functional Clothing / Adaptive Garments Feature
Conventional garment construction assumed two-handed dexterity and full-range mobility as starting conditions, distributing ease of dressing unevenly across the full range of bodies that needed to wear clothing.

The Clothing Industry Called It Accessibility and the Market Called It an Opportunity

  • Richa Bansal

11 May 2026
 
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Recycling Crisis / Tshirt Study Report
The environmental cost of a cotton t-shirt is set long before it reaches a shop floor, determined by cultivation, water use and the inefficiencies of industrial fibre processing.

Why Bangladesh Loses More Cotton Than Norway's Best Recycling System Can Ever Recover

  • Special Correspondent

28 May 2026
Cotton Production / Latin America Overview Interview
The distance between a validated research finding and its adoption on a working farm is rarely a scientific problem. It is an economic, institutional, and logistical one.

Inclusion or Concentration: Latin American Cotton Faces a Reckoning

  • Subir Ghosh

26 May 2026
 
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Fashion History / Mantua Feature
The mantua or manteau was a new fashion that arose in the 1670s. Instead of a bodice and skirt cut separately, the mantua hung from the shoulders to the floor (like dresses of earlier periods). It started as the female version of the men's banyan, worn for "undress" wear.

How a 17th Century Gown Ushered in Financial Freedom for Women in Europe

  • Sarah Bendall

3 January 2024
Rethinking Circularity / Garments Apart / I Feature
Where performance apparel meets its limits, the real question is not what a garment is made from, but how it was conceived to end.

Four Partners, One Jacket, and a New Logic for End-of-Life

  • Subir Ghosh

6 April 2026