Decolonial paths in fashion studies: race, gender and a concept under review

This article examines the emergence of the debate on decoloniality in the field of fashion studies in Brazil. To this end, it promotes a theoretical discussion by placing texts about fashion in dialogue with others on decoloniality. Initially, a contextualization of post-colonial and decolonial stud...

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Autor: Epaminondas, Natalia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Estudos e Pesquisas em Moda (Abepem)
Repositorio:Revista dObra[s]
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.dobras.emnuvens.com.br:article/1795
Acceso en línea:https://dobras.emnuvens.com.br/dobras/article/view/1795
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Decoloniality
Fashion
Dress
Race
Gender
Decolonialidad
Moda
Vestir
Raza
Género
Décolonialité
Mode
Coiffer
Genre
Decolonialità
Vestire
Razza
Genere
Decolonialidade
Raça
Gênero
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Sumario:This article examines the emergence of the debate on decoloniality in the field of fashion studies in Brazil. To this end, it promotes a theoretical discussion by placing texts about fashion in dialogue with others on decoloniality. Initially, a contextualization of post-colonial and decolonial studies is made based on articles by Luciana Ballestrin (2013, 2017). Next, the dissertation by fashion researcher Jamile Souza (2021) is put into dialogue with texts by researchers who produce decolonial studies in Brazil, Viviane Vergueiro (2018) and Geni Núñez (2018). After-wards, it analyzes the first Brazilian academic publication to question fashion concepts based on theories arising from studies of decoloniality, authored by Heloisa Santos (2020), placing it in dialogue with two articles from the Decoloniality and Fashion edition of the British academic journal Fashion Theory; one written by Sandra Niessen (2020) and the other by Angela Jansen (2020). The categories of race and gender were identified as axes of intersection between decolonial studies and fashion studies in Brazil. The theme of reviewing the concept of fashion itself proved to be important in some cited texts and is analyzed in this article, as well as its critical points.