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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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Rant Control / Shein Circularity Commentary
Corporate sustainability language has evolved beyond grand ecological promises into something harder to challenge—the rhetoric of everyday pragmatism and consumer common sense.

Rise and Shein: The Circularity Report That Laundered a Business Model in Plain Sight

  • Subir Ghosh

30 March 2026
Going Circular / EOL Textiles / I Report
Collection infrastructure has grown faster than the systems needed to interpret, sort, and process what arrives—exposing a structural imbalance at the heart of textile circularity.

Circularity Has Been Mistaken for the Act of Gathering

  • Special Correspondent

1 April 2026
 
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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
Going Circular / EOL Textiles / III Report
Textile recovery depends not only on what is collected but on whether the system receiving it has the capacity to distinguish value from waste at scale.

The Recycling System Was Not Built for What It Receives

  • Special Correspondent

3 April 2026
 
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Going Circular / EOL Textiles / II Report
Policy frameworks for textile circularity are being assembled across Europe at legislative speed, but the industrial and logistical conditions they depend on are taking longer to arrive.

The Real Test of Textile Policy Is Not Ambition but What Survives Contact

  • Special Correspondent

2 April 2026
War Effects / Surat Exodus Feature
The decision to leave is rarely about wages alone; it is about whether a city can sustain the basic conditions that make staying possible. In Surat, those conditions have collapsed.

Paying for a Distant War: Surat's Migrant Textile Workforce Is Leaving 'Coz It has Run Out of Gas

  • Richa Bansal

27 March 2026