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The International Politics of Fashion - Being Fab in a Dangerous World (Paperback)
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The International Politics of Fashion - Being Fab in a Dangerous World (Paperback)
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
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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 overlooked fashion as a source of knowledge
about global politics. Yet stories about the political role of
fashion abound in the news media. Margaret Thatcher used dress to
define her political image, and more recently the fascination with
Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni and other women in similar positions,
and the discussions about the appropriateness of their wardrobes,
regularly makes the news. In Sudan, a female writer and activist
successfully challenged the government over her right to wear
trousers in public and in Europe, the debate on women's headscarves
has politicised a garment item and turned it into a symbol of
fundamentalism and oppression. In response, the contributors to
this book 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. 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. This book 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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