Fashion Theory Volume 12 Issue 4 The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

by Root, Regina A.

• ISBN13: 9781847882011
• ISBN10: 1847882013
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Special Issue on Eco-FashionFashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research.Indexed by the IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); the DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index); ARTbibliographies Modern; Abstracts in Anthropology; the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Sociological abstracts; ISI Web of Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Index and ISI Current Contents Connect/Arts & Humanities (THOMSON); K.G. Saur Verlag's IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature and Social Sciences) and K.G. Verlag's IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on Humanities and Social Sciences)

Author Biography

Regina A. Root is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and a core faculty member of the Environmental Science and Policy and the Global Studies programs at the College of William and Mary.  She is the editor of The Latin American Fashion Reader (Berg Publishers, 2005) and author of Couture and Consensus:  Fashion and Political Culture in Postcolonial Argentina (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2009).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Rethinking The Context And Practice Of Design

Understanding the Nature of 'Practice'

Understanding the Directional Nature of Design (as object and practice)

The Imperative of the Redirection of Design

Design as a Redirective Practice

Reviewing Two Key Redirective Practices

Futuring, Redirective Practice, Development and Culture

Strategic Design Thinking

Unpacking Futuring in Relation to the Self, Community, Culture and Ethics

Methods of Change 1: Platforming, Return Briefs and New Teams

Methods of Change 2: Designing in time

Futuring and Learning the New from the Past

Designer as Redirective Practitioner: New Roles beyond Design

Design, Sustainment And Futures

Futuring Against Sustaining the Unsustainable

Sustainment and a New Epoch of Humanity

Picturing Economic and Cultural Futures

Sustainment by Design (as Redirective Practice): 'Dig Where You Stand'

Challenges of the Communication of Sustainment and Futuring

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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