Local fashion, global imagination

Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2391252
AutoresTian Shi (0000-0002-6100-326X, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas175-198
Data de publicação2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13591835221125113
OpenAlexW4297004896
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas75

Dress has been used as a visual avowal of social status, personality, personal taste, identity, and philosophy throughout history. This article aims to assess the changing dress practices and understand the meaning of ethnic dress in the diasporic community in a super-connected era. This article examines the cultural-historical contexts that contribute to dress practices at the macro level and individuals' perceptions at the micro level. This article demonstrates how the Hmong experience can contribute to the knowledge of dress as a vehicle of agency, identity, and aspiration in fashion and material culture studies. In doing so, this article provides new insights into a growing area of research by exploring the emotionality of materials in terms of how imagination and aspiration of ethnicity are inscribed in and ascribed to dress and clothing in diasporic groups

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Clothing · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Meaning (existential · Social science · Sociology · Taste · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology