[ecrea] Contemporary South Asian Youth Cultures and Fashion Symposium

Contemporary South Asian Youth Cultures and Fashion Symposium


25th and 26th September, 2014


London College of Fashion


Dynamic growth and an expanding middle class are making South Asian 
(Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and 
Sri Lanka) consumers among the most confident in the world. A large part 
of this includes the increasing consumption of fashion and related 
products amongst the youth. Whilst there has been some study of South 
Asian fashion and dressing cultures within history, anthropology 
(Banerjee and Miller 2003; Tarlo 1996), cinema (Dwyer 2000) and diaspora 
(Bachu 2004; Mani 2003); there has been little work that has looked at 
the transnational implication of contemporary changing cultural and 
economic environments on dressing cultures on the youth in South Asia 
and its diasporas.  As Tarlo (1996) has argued, dress in India and more 
largely South Asia is used to instigate change, question national 
identities and assert power.


In this international interdisciplinary symposium we would like to 
extend and question the role of clothing cultures within the changing 
transnational discourse of consumerism, sexuality, faith, politics and 
media technology within the youth in South Asia and the diasporas. We 
invite papers and creative presentations (of up to 20 minutes) from 
interdisciplinary perspectives including (but not limited to) the 
following themes:


·       fashion and consumer cultures

·       fashioning youth in cinema /television/music/magazines

·       dress cultures, gender and sexuality

·       fashion, politics and faith

·       South Asian fashion trends and culture in the diasporas

·       dress and fashion as resistance and defiance

·       fashion, media and technology



The keynote speakers for this conference are Professor Rachel Dwyer of 
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Dr 
Rajinder Dudrah of the University of Manchester. Please send abstracts 
of 250 words to (southasia /at/ fashion.arts.ac.uk) by 30th March 2014. All 
abstracts will be peer reviewed. All successful applicants will be 
notified by early May 2014. A selection of papers from the conference 
will be selected and considered for inclusion in a volume edited by the 
organisers and Professor Reina Lewis. I.B Tauris has shown a strong 
interest.


The conference is organised by Lipi Begum, lecturer and doctoral student 
at London College of Fashion and Rohit K Dasgupta, doctoral student and 
associate lecturer at London College of Communication. The conference is 
supported by London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.


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