CALL FOR PAPERS | The Fashion Studies Journal: Special Issue on Fashion & Southeast Asia
SELAKSANA. Image courtesy of Brigitta Viannie Djakarya.
This special issue of The Fashion Studies Journal builds on the conference Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia, which sought to answer three questions:
How do fashion practitioners with ties to Southeast Asia engage with the self, their local regional communities, and the global fashion system?
What are the ideas and values that underpin the work that they do?
What are the common threads and unique characteristics that define fashion from the region, if any?
The issue will further explore some of the themes that emerged from the conference. Broadly:
Creative agency can be observed in historical and contemporary fashion practices, and we have much learning – and unlearning— about this to do.
Pride in local knowledge systems drives preservation (including innovation) of the traditional for the present.
There is intentionality in creating things of lasting value.
Formats and Submission Process
The Fashion Studies Journal invite both researchers and industry practitioners to address the themes through these areas of interest: archives, businesses, curation, design, diaspora, films, identities, journalism, multi-disciplinarity, styling, and the wardrobe. This can be in the form of an academic, reflective or visual essay, an interview, or please feel free to propose an alternative format you would like to offer. In essence, the issue will continue efforts to decentralise fashion studies with content from the Southeast Asian fashion community.
If you are keen to apply, please submit in a single PDF an abstract/proposal of 150-200 words, with a representative image, and a biography of 100 words.
All applications are to be sent to the guest editor, Nadya Wang, at nadya@fashionandmarket.net by 15 September 2023, with the subject “FSJ: Fashion & Southeast Asia”. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by 20 October 2023.
The call for papers was originally published here.
