This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in
contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the
aesthetic turn in IR, critical and postmodern IR 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, the proponents of the
aesthetic turn have consistently overlooked and ignored fashion as
a source of knowledge about global politics.
Yet stories about the political role of fashion abound in the
news media. In Afghanistan, the terror of the Taliban regime and
the plight of women was illustrated by reference to the burqa that
women are supposedly 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.
This work will be a unique contribution to the field and will be
of interest to students and scholars of international relations,
critical IR theory and popular culture and world politics. "
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