Fashion as viscous knowledge
Fashion's Role in Shaping Trans-National Garment Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5811643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally A Weller (0000-0002-2791-5687, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), S Weller |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-66 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2702 • E-ISSN: 1468-2710 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jeg/lbl015 |
| OpenAlex | W2125741330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 45 |
This article develops a perspective of fashion as a complex, multi-dimensional form of knowledge and as a technology of garment mass production. It identifies the various modalities of fashion knowledge and characterises their different rates and extents of transmission across space and time in terms of their relative complexity. The article explores the spatio-temporal configurations of fashion knowledge as it is mobilised in the economy, interrogating the ways in which the uneven viscosity of its different modalities vary with their positioning in geographical space and in relation to other modalities. It then assesses the economic implications of fashion's place-specific re-combinations. These interactions are demonstrated by an examination of the impacts of international fashion trends on fashion garment supplies to the Australian market. The perspective outlined in this article highlights the inadequacies of the tacit-codified binaries that have dominated geographies of knowledge and shows why the transmission of fashion ideas consolidates rather than diminishes the power of key sites of expert knowledge
Knowledge production · Modalities · Tacit knowledge · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles
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| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |