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Author: Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA) ,
Joanne B Eicher (The University of Minnesota Us)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Berg Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780857857224
ISBN 10: 0857857223
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 28 January 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Finally, a book on sneakers for fashion scholars! No single item of clothing has played a larger role in American youth cultural history, and Kawamura does a brilliant job of recounting that history, contextualizing sneakers within the post-subcultural moment, and placing them in tension with larger debates in fashion studies. --<i>Brent Luvaas, Drexel University, USA</i></p> Kawamura's <i>Sneakers</i> convinces that a considered sociology of a single everyday object - albeit an infamous commodity that solicits consumer madness and subcultural respect - creates a worthy interdisciplinary global phenomenon called 'sneakerology'. --<i>Alison Gill, University of Western Sydney, Australia</i></p>
Finally, a book on sneakers for fashion scholars! No single item of clothing has played a larger role in American youth cultural history, and Kawamura does a brilliant job of recounting that history, contextualizing sneakers within the post-subcultural moment, and placing them in tension with larger debates in fashion studies. Brent Luvaas, Drexel University, USA Kawamura's Sneakers convinces that a considered sociology of a single everyday object albeit an infamous commodity that solicits consumer madness and subcultural respect creates a worthy interdisciplinary global phenomenon called 'sneakerology'. Alison Gill, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Finally, a book on sneakers for fashion scholars! No single item of clothing has played a larger role in American youth cultural history, and Kawamura does a brilliant job of recounting that history, contextualizing sneakers within the post-subcultural moment, and placing them in tension with larger debates in fashion studies. <i>Brent Luvaas, Drexel University, USA</i></p> Kawamura's <i>Sneakers</i> convinces that a considered sociology of a single everyday object albeit an infamous commodity that solicits consumer madness and subcultural respect creates a worthy interdisciplinary global phenomenon called 'sneakerology'. <i>Alison Gill, University of Western Sydney, Australia</i></p>
Author Information
Yuniya Kawamura is Professor of Sociology at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA. She is the author of The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion (Berg, 2004), Fashion-ology (Berg, 2005), Doing Research in Fashion and Dress (Berg, 2011), and Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (Berg, 2012).
