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Module POC3100 for 2017/8
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3100: The Politics of Fashion
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Overview
| NQF Level | 6 | ||
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| Credits | 15 | ECTS Value | 7.5 |
| Term(s) and duration | This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks) | ||
| Academic staff | Dr Delacey Tedesco (Convenor) | ||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||
| Co-requisites | None | ||
| Available via distance learning | No | ||
The politics of fashion is at once personal in appearance and global in scope, raising several significant questions. How can we understand the politics of the clothes we buy and wear? How can we understand the politics of who produces these clothes, and under what conditions? How can we understand the social, political, and ecological relationships that are signaled through representations of fashion and materialized through its various systems and practices? And why, ultimately, does fashion matter for political analysis? This module will focus on key approaches to the politics of fashion, through which we will encounter and analyze different conceptual and empirical accounts of both ‘fashion’ and ‘politics.’ By engaging claims about the aesthetic, sovereign, economic, embodied, gendered, colonial, and spatial/geographic dimensions of fashion, you will gain a deeper understanding of debates over contemporary definitions and practices of politics.
No prior knowledge skills or experiences are required to take this module, and it is suitable for specialist and non-specialist students. This interdisciplinary module is suitable for students studying Politics, International Relations, Geography, Flexible Combined Honours, the Humanities, Fashion and Fine Arts.
| Module created | 01/05/2017 | Last revised |
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