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Fashioning the Afropolis

- Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices
Engelsk Paperback

Fashioning the Afropolis

- Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices
Engelsk Paperback
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“A revelation. Reclaiming fashion from its European history.” – Shane White

With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashioning the Afropolis provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas.

To date, “fashion” and “city” have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa’s rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights.

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“A revelation. Reclaiming fashion from its European history.” – Shane White

With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashioning the Afropolis provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas.

To date, “fashion” and “city” have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa’s rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350327849
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1350327840
Kategori: Tidlige 21. århundrede, 2000 til 2050
Udg. Dato: 21 mar 2024
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 156mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 21 mar 2024
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Kategori Tidlige 21. århundrede, 2000 til 2050

ISBN-13 9781350327849

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 234mm

Højde 156mm

Udg. Dato 21 mar 2024

Oplagsdato 21 mar 2024

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC