Essays about: "fashion discourses"

Showing result 16 - 18 of 18 essays containing the words fashion discourses.

  1. 16. Fashioning the political statement : A qualitative study into the duality of postfashion

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för modevetenskap

    Author : Sara Milosavljevic; [2017]
    Keywords : cultural capital; haute couture; luxury; postfashion; commodification; political struggles; inconspicuous consumption; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine the interrelationship between contemporary French luxury fashion and political struggles by examining the garments with explicit political statements from the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2015 Chanel runway, the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2017 Dior runway and the menswear fall/winter 2017 Balenciaga runway analysis as to discern the possible reasons and effects of the making of these statements. The focus of this thesis is to examine the way political struggles, as immaterial social relationships, can be commodified into garments, as according to the Marxist situationist theories of Guy Debord, and how the commodification in question by haute couture houses, rich with the sociological notion of cultural capital as described by Pierre Bourdieu, can have a potential effect on the formation of both fashion discourses and political discourses by using Foucauldian discourse analysis. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Adelaida Caballero; [2015]
    Keywords : self-making; lateral struggles; Equatorial Guinea; politics of the belly; the practice of everyday life; existential anthropology; creativity; agency; narrativity; display; enunciative procedures; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; postcolonial states; suicides; Mamí Watá; construcción del yo; conflictos laterales; Guinea Ecuatorial; política del vientre; la práctica de la vida cotidiana; antropología existencial; creatividad; agencia; narratividad; display; procedimientos enunciativos; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; estudios poscoloniales; suicidios; Mamí Watá;

    Abstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE

  4. 18. Shopping for Change – the discourses of marketized nonprofit fundraising

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Johanna Arnesson; [2012-09-17]
    Keywords : fundraising; nonprofit; marketization; commodification; civil society; consumer power; political consumerism; individualization;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the articulation of marketized philanthropy within the discourse of nonprofit fundraising. The objective is to find out how fundraising works as a discursive practice - how is the world constructed, who and whom are participants in this world, and why should the presumed donor get involved? It does so from a critical approach, connecting the business of fundraising to theories of subpolitics, individualization, consumer power, and the argument that market logics serves a depoliticizing function within this context. READ MORE