Call for chapter proposals for a Routledge edited volume: "Degrowth and Fashion Systems: Intersecting Plural Perspectives"
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Irene Maldini
Feb 3, 2026, 10:47:36 AM (5 days ago) Feb 3
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Call for chapter proposals for a Routledge edited volume: "Degrowth and Fashion Systems: Intersecting Plural Perspectives" edited by Kate Fletcher and Irene Maldini
Targeted call:
This call is intended for contributions from the Global South, the proposal should include a statement about the authors or their institutions belonging to Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Japan, South Korea, Israel), or Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand). These will complement proposals that are already being considered, mostly from the Global North. Proposals from academics, activists, and other actors are welcome.
Blurb:
This book compiles diverse perspectives about how Degrowth - that is the planned and democratic reduction of production and consumption as a solution to social-ecological crises - can be elaborated upon, advanced, and challenged when applied to, or approached through the realm of fashion systems. These fashion systems include the industrial sector, informal economies and domestic settings where clothing and other textile products are produced, traded, used and transformed.
The fashion industry has become a symbol of polluting and exploitative capitalism given the visible excess of its material production enabled by radical global inequalities. Perhaps this position, and the capacity of fashion and clothing thinkers and practitioners to engage with the Zeitgeist, have led to productive engagement with the ideas of the Degrowth movement in this field. This book compiles a range of these perspectives emerging in diverse geographies, enabling exchange and crossovers, and providing a living portrait of current thinking and action at the intersection of Degrowth as a movement and fashion and clothing as a field of action.
The edited volume will be a reference for fashion and clothing thinkers and practitioners interested in or already engaging with Degrowth. It will also be relevant for communities intending to enable sustainable transitions in related sectors that have not yet engaged with Degrowth to the same level. Further it will be a valuable guide for Degrowth thinkers and practitioners aiming at understanding the implications of applying the movement’s thinking and action in this field.
Chapter proposal guidelines:
Proposals should include title, authors, and affiliation (if applicable), a short statement about the author’s relation to the Global South, and an extended abstract containing a maximum of 600 words excluding references. The abstract should give an idea of the proposed chapter’s structure and content, and indicate if images would be included.
Proposals can be sent by email to irene....@gmail.com before February 28.
Targeted call:
This call is intended for contributions from the Global South, the proposal should include a statement about the authors or their institutions belonging to Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Japan, South Korea, Israel), or Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand). These will complement proposals that are already being considered, mostly from the Global North. Proposals from academics, activists, and other actors are welcome.
Blurb:
This book compiles diverse perspectives about how Degrowth - that is the planned and democratic reduction of production and consumption as a solution to social-ecological crises - can be elaborated upon, advanced, and challenged when applied to, or approached through the realm of fashion systems. These fashion systems include the industrial sector, informal economies and domestic settings where clothing and other textile products are produced, traded, used and transformed.
The fashion industry has become a symbol of polluting and exploitative capitalism given the visible excess of its material production enabled by radical global inequalities. Perhaps this position, and the capacity of fashion and clothing thinkers and practitioners to engage with the Zeitgeist, have led to productive engagement with the ideas of the Degrowth movement in this field. This book compiles a range of these perspectives emerging in diverse geographies, enabling exchange and crossovers, and providing a living portrait of current thinking and action at the intersection of Degrowth as a movement and fashion and clothing as a field of action.
The edited volume will be a reference for fashion and clothing thinkers and practitioners interested in or already engaging with Degrowth. It will also be relevant for communities intending to enable sustainable transitions in related sectors that have not yet engaged with Degrowth to the same level. Further it will be a valuable guide for Degrowth thinkers and practitioners aiming at understanding the implications of applying the movement’s thinking and action in this field.
Chapter proposal guidelines:
Proposals should include title, authors, and affiliation (if applicable), a short statement about the author’s relation to the Global South, and an extended abstract containing a maximum of 600 words excluding references. The abstract should give an idea of the proposed chapter’s structure and content, and indicate if images would be included.
Proposals can be sent by email to irene....@gmail.com before February 28.
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