[Commlist] Call for Papers: 'Dressing through Pandemics'

Special Issue Call for Papers: Fashion Style & Popular Culture


‘Dressing through Pandemics’


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https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers>


Guest Editor: Dr Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Manchester Fashion Institute, 
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.


On 11 March 2020, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was characterized 
as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Sixteen years earlier, 
in February 2003, the SARS-CoV-1 (SARS) virus was identified during an 
outbreak in China and declared a pandemic soon after. From its origins 
in China in December 2019, COVID-19 quickly spread to the West where 
there was little collective memory nor public health experience 
containing a pandemic. To limit the transmission of the virus while 
vaccines were still unavailable, lockdowns were imposed around the 
world. Society was turned upside down in ways that often felt traumatic: 
new ways of living, communicating, learning, working and dressing were 
imposed overnight. Much has been written about important medical aspects 
of both pandemics, but little discourse has been shared regarding the 
ways in which fashion, style and popular culture were disrupted and 
changed through pandemic experiences.


This Special Issue develops a multidisciplinary discourse which reflects 
and extends awareness and appreciation for the ways in which the 
pandemics altered and transformed our wardrobes, clothing consumption, 
ways of dressing and even the purpose of clothing. Research would be 
welcomed into the ways in which SARS, COVID-19 and other pandemics 
brought a new appreciation of clothing as safety and shield, and 
recognition that protective apparel manufacturing is an essential 
industry to public health initiatives with moral imperatives to act 
civically. Discussions into how lives lived online and in lockdown 
changed behaviour towards how fashion was consumed and worn would be 
valued. Additionally, the editor would appreciate research into the 
differing behaviours and belief systems regarding medical mask wearing 
in East Asian culture versus the West where mask wearing as a public 
health initiative was unique to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Possible topics include but are not limited to:


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    Clothing and dress as protection/designing masks we want to wear

  *

    Home sewing PPE and communities of practice

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    Fashion brands’ remote experiential marketing and online shopping

  *

    Fashion houses dedicating machine time to PPE production

  *

    Developing a ‘waist up wardrobe’ for Zoom calls and the rise of
    leisure wear during lockdown

  *

    Cloth is not neutral: The medical mask both as political symbol and
    protective fashion accessory

  *

    The medical mask as a welcomed shield for people with facial
    disfigurements and dermatological issues

  *

    Cultural attitude to medical mask wearing: Personal Protective
    Equipment (PPE) versus Community Protective Equipment (CPE)

  *

    Lessons of the Spanish Flu pandemic: the medical mask introduced
    into popular culture.

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    The troubled history of face coverings in the US – issues of racist
    aggression, profiling, discrimination, and the effects on personal
    health and public health initiatives

  *

    Case studies of knowledge transfer initiatives between sectors to
    solve issues of design, supply, and distribution of Personal
    Protective Equipment (PPE) kit


Full papers should be sent to Dr. Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Manchester 
Fashion Institute at

(E.Kealy-Morris /at/ mmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(E.Kealy-Morris /at/ mmu.ac.uk)> no later than 
1 September 2024.  All manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed.


Papers will be accepted on a rolling basis and reviewed as such. 
Questions regarding the journal should be sent to Principal Editor 
Joseph H. Hancock II at (joseph.hancockii /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(joseph.hancockii /at/ gmail.com)>.


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