Rethinking Fashion Globalization (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2021
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Paperback. Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric dominance within fashion histories by presenting new models, approaches and understandings of fashion from critical thinkers at the forefront of decolonial fashion discourse.This edited collection draws together original, diverse, and richly reflective critiques of the fashion system from both established and emerging fashion scholars, researchers and creative practitioners. Chapters straddle current calls for decolonization and inclusion, as well as reflections on de-westernization, post-colonialism, sustainability, transnationalism, national identities, social activism, global fashion narratives, diversity, and more. The volume is divided into three key themes, 'Disruptions in Time and Space', 'Nationalism and Transnationalism' and 'Global Design Practices'. These themes re-map fashions origins, practices and futures, to present alternatives for reclaiming and rethinking fashion globalization in the 21st century. "The first edited volume to present decolonial critiques of fashion and globalization and explore the dynamics of 'de-globalization' to propose more diverse fashion definitions, practices and aesthetics"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Rethinking Fashion Globalization (Paperback)
- Author
- Sarah Cheang
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350180068
- ISBN 13
- 9781350180062
Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric dominance within fashion histories by presenting new models, approaches and understandings of fashion from critical thinkers at the forefront of decolonial fashion discourse.
This edited collection draws together original, diverse, and richly reflective critiques of the fashion system from both established and emerging fashion scholars, researchers and creative practitioners. Chapters straddle current calls for decolonization and inclusion, as well as reflections on de-westernization, post-colonialism, sustainability, transnationalism, national identities, social activism, global fashion narratives, diversity, and more.
The volume is divided into three key themes, 'Disruptions in Time and Space', 'Nationalism and Transnationalism' and 'Global Design Practices'. These themes re-map fashion's origins, practices and futures, to present alternatives for reclaiming and rethinking fashion globalization in the 21st century.
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About the Author
Erica de Greef is Director and Co-Founder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decolonising Fashion, and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has also lectured widely in the field of fashion curation and fashion pedagogy in South Africa.
Yoko Takagi is Professor and programme director of MA Global Fashion Concentration at Bunka Gakuen University, Tokyo. Focusing on transboundary aspects of fashion and textile from the end of the 19th century to present day, she has contributed to publications and exhibition curation. She hosts the Transboundary Fashion Seminar.
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