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Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer Agency along China-Africa Fashion Value Chains

Descrizione del progetto

La catena del valore della moda in Cina e in Africa

La Cina ha una posizione rilevante nel mercato globale e un forte impatto sulla vita delle persone. Il progetto China Fashion Power, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di esaminare questa influenza puntando i riflettori sul funzionamento dell’industria della moda, in particolare per quanto riguarda le reti tra Cina e Africa di tale settore. China Fashion Power approfondirà le dinamiche e le espressioni di forza mediante l’adozione di un approccio multidisciplinare, multimetodologico, multicentrico e multiscalare. I risultati getteranno luce sulla catena del valore della moda in Cina e in Africa (ovvero sui processi di creazione, circolazione, valutazione e consumo), in particolare nelle aree di Guangdong, Nairobi e Maputo.

Obiettivo

The project investigates how, in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinas global power is manifested, negotiated and resisted in peoples daily life in a South-South setting using fashion as an exemplary case. Fashion is recognised as a significant economic force globally and one of the most poignant indicators of cross-cultural exchange. By critically examining China-Africa networks of fashion production, trade and consumption, this project will theorise how fashion is created, circulated, valuated, and consumed in and through Global Souths Value Chains (Guangdong-Nairobi-Maputo), dissecting complex dynamics and expressions of power. Using a multi-disciplinary, multi-method, multi-sited, and multi scalar approach, the following questions frame this project and its four subprojects: 1) How are everyday fashion products designed and produced in China for African markets; 2) How do Chinese and Africans interact to valuate and trade fashion products for Kenyan and Mozambican markets; 3) How and by whom are cultural differences negotiated and mediated in the marketplace; and 4) What values, meanings and power do African consumers derive from consumption, and what ideas and constraints are imposed on them? This projects major contribution is threefold. Theoretically, it will move beyond a Western-centric epistemology to map the chains, restraints and materialities of Chinas power expansion through fashion. Methodologically, this project will synergistically collect and triangulate empirical information along complete South-South commodity chains through multi-sited ethnography, semiotic and visual analysis, individual and focus group interviews, and wardrobe archival studies. Empirically, it will provide evidence of how Chinese-African fashion industries impact upon the social, cultural, economic and affective lives of African consumers in the context of increasing globalisation, digitalisation, consumerism, and Chinas ambition abroad.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Meccanismo di finanziamento

HORIZON-ERC -

Istituzione ospitante

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 1 996 206,00
Costo totale
€ 1 996 206,00

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