Description: This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Reader to explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.
Brief description: Regina A. Root is Full Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures at William & Mary, USA. She is an international expert in participatory design and cultural production, having authored, edited and co-edited works like The Latin American Fashion Reader (Bloomsbury, 2005), Couture and Consensus (2010), The Handbook of Fashion Studies (Bloomsbury, 2013), among others. She is co-editor, with Hazel Clark, of the Bloomsbury Fashion In Action series.
Review Quotes:
"Offering rich, wide-ranging perspectives on the power and importance of fashion in shaping culture, politics, and human experience ... the fresh viewpoints invite thinking anew about current methodologies, approaches, and ongoing debates. A fundamental resource for future research." --Susan V. Webster, Jane Williams Mahoney Professor Emerita, Willian & Mary, USA
"A groundbreaking collection that advances critical decolonial scholarship in fashion studies ... the contributors offer sophisticated theoretical frameworks that illuminate fashion's complex entanglements with power, identity, and cultural agency. Essential reading, particularly for scholars of material culture and postcolonial studies." --Benjamin Linley Wild, Reader in Fashion Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK