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“sarah cheang”

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  • Rethinking Fashion Globalization

    Edited by Sarah Cheang, Dr. Erica de Greef, Dr. Yoko Takagi ...
    Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric dominance within fashion histories by presenting new models, approaches and understandings of fashion from critical thinkers at the forefront of decolonial fashion discourse.This edited collection draws together original, diverse, and richly reflective critiques of the fashion system ... Read more

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    A Cultural History

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    Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.Representing a timely ... Read more

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  • Future City

    Edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job van Eldijk ...
    This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at ... Read more

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

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  • The Fabric of Cultures

    Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

    Edited by Eugenia Paulicelli, Hazel Clark ...
    Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework. The collected essays ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Return of Curiosity

    What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... Read more

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  • Against Urbanism

    by Franco La Cecla ...
    Translated by Mairin O'Mahony ...
    After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture (PM Press, 2012, also available), Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic and ... Read more

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  • Critical Craft

    Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism

    Edited by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Alicia Ory DeNicola ...
    From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes 'craft' in a wide variety of practices from around the world.Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional ... Read more

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  • Urban Spaces in Japan

    Cultural and Social Perspectives

    Edited by Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary planning debates. Further, it addresses the implications of Japan's biggest social problem – the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Peter Davis, Michelle Stefano ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on ... Read more

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  • The Beautiful Generation

    Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

    by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu ...
    Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and other fashion magazines. At the same time that these designers were rising to prominence, the ... Read more

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  • UNESCO on the Ground

    Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local ... Read more

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