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[ecrea] Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies - Call for Papers
Sat Dec 09 09:09:37 GMT 2017
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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