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The international politics of fashion : being fab in a dangerous world /

Contributor(s): Series: Popular culture and world politicsPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017Description: xvi, 206 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781138788985
  • 1138788988
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GT 525 INT
Contents:
This is not a mannequin: enfashioning bodies of resistance / Rosemary E. Shinko -- The art of (un)dressing dangerously: the veil and/as fashion / M.I. Franklin -- Orientalism refashioned: 'Eastern moon' in 'Western waters' reflecting back on the East China Sea / L.H.M. Ling -- Fashion statements: wearing trousers in Sudan / Linda Bishai -- (Undressing) the sovereign: fashion as symbolic form / Andreas Behnke -- The evolution of Somali women's fashion during changing security contexts / Mary Hope Schwoebel -- Margaret Thatcher, dress and the politics of fashion / Daniel Conway -- Fashion studies takes on politics / Hazel Clark and Molly Rottman.
Summary: This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical international relations scholarship. Postmodern international relations has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate, and represent international politics. By contrast fashion has been consistently overlooked as a source of knowledge about global politics. Yet stories about the political role of fashion abound in the news media. Political figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Obama dress to define their political image. In Afghanistan, the terror of the Taliban regime and the plight of women was illustrated by reference to the burqa that women are forced to wear there. In Sudan, recently a female writer and activist successfully challenged the government over her right to wear trousers in public. In Europe, the debate on women's headscarves has politicised a garment item and turned it into a symbol of fundamentalism and oppression. In the war on terror, orange jumpsuits are used on both sides to dehumanise and mark the figure of the 'detainee'. Yet the politics of fashion go beyond these examples of the uses and abuses of textiles and fabrics for political purposes, extending into its very 'grammar' and vocabulary. The contributions to this book will investigate the politics of fashion from a variety of perspectives, addressing theoretical as well as empirical issues, establishing the critical study of fashion and its protagonists as a central contribution to the aesthetic turn in international politics.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General GT 525 INT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 10/04/2024 0012670

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is not a mannequin: enfashioning bodies of resistance / Rosemary E. Shinko -- The art of (un)dressing dangerously: the veil and/as fashion / M.I. Franklin -- Orientalism refashioned: 'Eastern moon' in 'Western waters' reflecting back on the East China Sea / L.H.M. Ling -- Fashion statements: wearing trousers in Sudan / Linda Bishai -- (Undressing) the sovereign: fashion as symbolic form / Andreas Behnke -- The evolution of Somali women's fashion during changing security contexts / Mary Hope Schwoebel -- Margaret Thatcher, dress and the politics of fashion / Daniel Conway -- Fashion studies takes on politics / Hazel Clark and Molly Rottman.

This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical international relations scholarship. Postmodern international relations has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate, and represent international politics. By contrast fashion has been consistently overlooked as a source of knowledge about global politics. Yet stories about the political role of fashion abound in the news media. Political figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Obama dress to define their political image. In Afghanistan, the terror of the Taliban regime and the plight of women was illustrated by reference to the burqa that women are forced to wear there. In Sudan, recently a female writer and activist successfully challenged the government over her right to wear trousers in public. In Europe, the debate on women's headscarves has politicised a garment item and turned it into a symbol of fundamentalism and oppression. In the war on terror, orange jumpsuits are used on both sides to dehumanise and mark the figure of the 'detainee'. Yet the politics of fashion go beyond these examples of the uses and abuses of textiles and fabrics for political purposes, extending into its very 'grammar' and vocabulary. The contributions to this book will investigate the politics of fashion from a variety of perspectives, addressing theoretical as well as empirical issues, establishing the critical study of fashion and its protagonists as a central contribution to the aesthetic turn in international politics.

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