[ecrea] Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies - Call for Papers

The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies
1st Call for Expressions of Interest for Book Chapters



We warmly invite you to submit your book chapter abstract for 
consideration for our book proposal for the Routledge Companion to book 
series. The aim of the “Routledge Companion to” book series is to define 
the current state of theory and research in a specialized field, in this 
case Fashion Studies, and create a foundation for future scholarship and 
study.  Thus, this companion will provide a comprehensive, much needed 
survey of the fashion studies field, and also map out the emerging 
critical terrain.

Submission of expressions of interest: February 28, 2018

Editors:

Dr. Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Alyssa Dana Adomaitis, City Tech, CUNY

Dr. Elizabeth Wissinger, BMCC and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Veronica Manlow, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Fashion is at once a global industry with important financial 
ramifications, and an art with aesthetic dimensions. Considering these 
two poles, which might be seen as mutually exclusive, one quickly finds 
aspects of one in the other: art whether in cinema, galleries or museums 
always involves business and the business of manufacturing, retail and 
marketing relies on aesthetics. In today’s digital, media and 
consumerist society, fashion occupies an ever-growing importance that is 
not likely to decrease.

Due to the important place that fashion occupies historically, 
institutionally and in everyday life, fashion is a phenomenon with a 
multidisciplinary presence. Research has been carried out in most 
traditional disciplines: literature, art, history, economics, sociology, 
psychology, anthropology, political science, education, chemistry, 
fashion design, film, theater, business, journalism, law and in a 
variety of sub-disciplines, new disciplines and interdisciplinary 
fields. The data that may be considered can be material or immaterial.

The field of Fashion Studies has seen an uptake in popular and academic 
interest during the last two decades. While ancient thinkers and 
contemporary theorists wrote about one or another aspect of how 
clothing, adornment and later fashion intersected with questions of 
morality, politics, nation building, gender and identity, what is 
relatively new is a widespread recognition that fashion is implicated in 
all these areas in complex ways and that one cannot consider it in 
isolation -- merely as a text or a performance, for example, without 
being at least aware of its multidimensionality and the impact it has on 
the economy, on those who work to produce fashion goods, and 
geopolitical issues such as pollution, waste and climate change.  In 
this vein, new works on methodology, theory, and continuing forms of 
practice have proliferated alongside new academic journals devoted 
solely to the topic, ranging from graduate student journals to highly 
specialized volumes devoted to a specific aspect of the fashion field 
such as luxury.



While there has been a growing interest in the consolidation and 
institutionalization of Fashion Studies as a field, efforts to do so 
range across disciplinary divides between the textiles/dress/practice 
approach versus the cultural studies, sociopolitical and theoretical 
angle on the topic. As a result of this disciplinary distance, attempts 
to establish the field’s overall contours are often published in 
different forums. The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies 
consequentially aims at providing a comprehensive state of the art 
concerning fashion studies research from a multidisciplinary approach 
while also aiming to show the interconnectedness of disciplines and 
domains that cannot be considered in isolation and separated from each 
other. The aim is to have 30-35 authors from around the globe and with a 
range of disciplines and various stages of academic career contributing 
to this companion. Any such original contributions will need to survey a 
specific topic and critically discuss the leading views in the area. 
This includes discursive and reflective pieces and also discussions of 
original empirical work (cases).



*Contributions are welcomed that address (but are not limited to) the 
following broad areas:*

**

*I.  Humanities:*

1. Fashion in Art

2. Fashion in Literature

3. History of the Fashion Industry

4. Fashion and Feminism and Women’s History

*II.  Social and Behavioral Sciences:*

5. Fashion in Sociology: Fashion, Appearance and Dress

6. Anthropology of Fashion [dress and costume]

7. Psychology: Fashion, Appearance and Dress

8. Fashion Gender, Sexuality, and Power

9. The Economics of Fashion

10. Fashion and the Law

11. Fashion and Politics

*III.   Media: *

12. Fashion in Film [and screen studies]

13. Fashion Journalism, the Magazine Industry, Blogging, and Social Media

14. Digital Humanities and Fashion:  Mapping Fashion

*IV.   Business: *

15. Fashion and Business: Marketing and Branding

16. Fashion Industry: Sourcing, Merchandising, Production

*V.   Education:*

17. Fashion Pedagogy and Research Methods

18. Fashion Activism

*VI.  Fashion in Practice:*

19. The Material Culture(s) of Fashion, Textiles

20. Fashion and Popular Culture

21. Fashion Curation

22. Fashion Design

23. Geography of Fashion

24. Global Case Studies: e.g. Made in Italy, Korea, Turkey etc.

25. Fashion and Technology

Submission information

Abstracts of 300 – 400 words in the form of a Word file should be sent to

(Routledgefashioncompanion /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(Routledgefashioncompanion /at/ gmail.com)>

by February 28th, 2018. Please include the details below with the abstract.


·       Proposed chapter title

·       Author(s) and affiliation details

·       Type of contribution (e.g., philosophical, conceptual, 
methodological, case study, etc.)

·       Keywords (maximum of 5)

The approximate timeline, depending on the success of the proposal, is 
as follows:

Final submission deadline of abstract: February 28, 2018
Notification of contribution: March 30, 2018
Final submission deadline of full text (5000 words): September 2018
Target publication date: 2019

If you have any questions regarding this call for proposal don’t 
hesitate to get in touch.


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