Sylvia Holla
Biographic Data
| ID | 226185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvia Holla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Holla |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4868-7740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Structure, Strategy and Self in Cultural Peripheries: Theorizing the Periphery in the Polish and Dutch Fashion Fields
This article analyzes the creation of value in (semi-)peripheral fields, using interview (N=94) and ethnographic data of creatives, models and cultural intermediaries in Polish and Dutch fashion. Drawing on field theory and center-periphery theories we show that these peripheral fields have a distinct structure-peripheral worlds-marked by the dependence on foreign centers for goods, standards and consecration, in which actors employ field-specifi…
Food in fashion modelling: Eating as an aesthetic and moral practice
This paper investigates the relation between food, the body and morality in fashion modelling. More than has been recognized so far, eating is a continuous form of body work that is decidedly essential to aesthetic labour. Against the backdrop of slender aesthetics, models are purposefully socialized into remaining or becoming slender, through food beliefs inducing them to eat in specific ways. Food is classified into good and bad categories, and…
Clouded judgments? Aesthetics, morality and everyday life in early 21st century culture
This special issue investigates the relationship between aesthetics and morality. How do the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly, happen in everyday life? How do these ‘orders of worth’ interact? Do they reinforce each other? What happens when they contradict one another? Does one order typically trump the other? Five contributions, from Israel, Italy and the Netherlands, scrutinize different sites where both aesthetics – the continuum o…
Aesthetic objects on display: The objectification of fashion models as a situated practice
This article unravels the process of objectification by empirically examining a social context where it occurs almost incessantly: fashion modeling. Drawing on an ethnography of fashion modeling in Amsterdam, Paris and Warsaw, I argue that objectification is neither ubiquitous nor one-dimensional: it takes place in specific social contexts and unfolds itself differently under different social conditions. Moreover, objectification is not unidirect…
Justifying Aesthetic Labor: How Fashion Models Enact Coherent Selves
Based on ethnographic and interview data collected in the modeling industries of Amsterdam, Paris, and Warsaw, this article shows that the relation between work, body, and self is particularly fraught for fashion models, as they work in a "greedy" industry that demands intensive forms of aesthetic labor. Such aesthetic labor requires models to continuously reinvent and negotiate their selves in different contexts. Fashion models make great effort…
Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture
Beauty comes with benefits.There are the obvious perks, such as sexual attractiveness and a desire on the part of others to seek out the company of goodlooking people.But people are also inclined to associate 'good looks' with other positive qualities, from moral goodness to economic success.Social psychologists call this the 'halo effect': the assumption that persons with visible desirable traits also have other, maybe less visible, positive qua…
Justifying Aesthetic Labor: How Fashion Models Enact Coherent Selves
Based on ethnographic and interview data collected in the modeling industries of Amsterdam, Paris, and Warsaw, this article shows that the relation between work, body, and self is particularly fraught for fashion models, as they work in a "greedy" industry that demands intensive forms of aesthetic labor. Such aesthetic labor requires models to continuously reinvent and negotiate their selves in different contexts. Fashion models make great effort…
Clouded judgments? Aesthetics, morality and everyday life in early 21st century culture
This special issue investigates the relationship between aesthetics and morality. How do the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly, happen in everyday life? How do these ‘orders of worth’ interact? Do they reinforce each other? What happens when they contradict one another? Does one order typically trump the other? Five contributions, from Israel, Italy and the Netherlands, scrutinize different sites where both aesthetics – the continuum o…
Aesthetic objects on display: The objectification of fashion models as a situated practice
This article unravels the process of objectification by empirically examining a social context where it occurs almost incessantly: fashion modeling. Drawing on an ethnography of fashion modeling in Amsterdam, Paris and Warsaw, I argue that objectification is neither ubiquitous nor one-dimensional: it takes place in specific social contexts and unfolds itself differently under different social conditions. Moreover, objectification is not unidirect…
Food in fashion modelling: Eating as an aesthetic and moral practice
This paper investigates the relation between food, the body and morality in fashion modelling. More than has been recognized so far, eating is a continuous form of body work that is decidedly essential to aesthetic labour. Against the backdrop of slender aesthetics, models are purposefully socialized into remaining or becoming slender, through food beliefs inducing them to eat in specific ways. Food is classified into good and bad categories, and…
Structure, Strategy and Self in Cultural Peripheries: Theorizing the Periphery in the Polish and Dutch Fashion Fields
This article analyzes the creation of value in (semi-)peripheral fields, using interview (N=94) and ethnographic data of creatives, models and cultural intermediaries in Polish and Dutch fashion. Drawing on field theory and center-periphery theories we show that these peripheral fields have a distinct structure-peripheral worlds-marked by the dependence on foreign centers for goods, standards and consecration, in which actors employ field-specifi…
Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture
Beauty comes with benefits.There are the obvious perks, such as sexual attractiveness and a desire on the part of others to seek out the company of goodlooking people.But people are also inclined to associate 'good looks' with other positive qualities, from moral goodness to economic success.Social psychologists call this the 'halo effect': the assumption that persons with visible desirable traits also have other, maybe less visible, positive qua…
Justifying Aesthetic Labor: How Fashion Models Enact Coherent Selves
Based on ethnographic and interview data collected in the modeling industries of Amsterdam, Paris, and Warsaw, this article shows that the relation between work, body, and self is particularly fraught for fashion models, as they work in a "greedy" industry that demands intensive forms of aesthetic labor. Such aesthetic labor requires models to continuously reinvent and negotiate their selves in different contexts. Fashion models make great effort…
Aesthetic objects on display: The objectification of fashion models as a situated practice
This article unravels the process of objectification by empirically examining a social context where it occurs almost incessantly: fashion modeling. Drawing on an ethnography of fashion modeling in Amsterdam, Paris and Warsaw, I argue that objectification is neither ubiquitous nor one-dimensional: it takes place in specific social contexts and unfolds itself differently under different social conditions. Moreover, objectification is not unidirect…
Clouded judgments? Aesthetics, morality and everyday life in early 21st century culture
This special issue investigates the relationship between aesthetics and morality. How do the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly, happen in everyday life? How do these ‘orders of worth’ interact? Do they reinforce each other? What happens when they contradict one another? Does one order typically trump the other? Five contributions, from Israel, Italy and the Netherlands, scrutinize different sites where both aesthetics – the continuum o…
Food in fashion modelling: Eating as an aesthetic and moral practice
This paper investigates the relation between food, the body and morality in fashion modelling. More than has been recognized so far, eating is a continuous form of body work that is decidedly essential to aesthetic labour. Against the backdrop of slender aesthetics, models are purposefully socialized into remaining or becoming slender, through food beliefs inducing them to eat in specific ways. Food is classified into good and bad categories, and…
Structure, Strategy and Self in Cultural Peripheries: Theorizing the Periphery in the Polish and Dutch Fashion Fields
This article analyzes the creation of value in (semi-)peripheral fields, using interview (N=94) and ethnographic data of creatives, models and cultural intermediaries in Polish and Dutch fashion. Drawing on field theory and center-periphery theories we show that these peripheral fields have a distinct structure-peripheral worlds-marked by the dependence on foreign centers for goods, standards and consecration, in which actors employ field-specifi…
Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (3 works)