Module POC3100 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3100: The Politics of Fashion
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics.
The Political World of Fashion:
- What is ‘Fashion’?
- Politics, pop culture, and aesthetics
- Rethinking fashion as political site and political method
Approaches to the Politics of Fashion:
- The International Politics of Fashion
- Political Economies of Fashion
- Fashioning Rural/Urban Political Geographies
- Gender, Bodies, and Fashion
- Politics of Fashion Curation
- Politics of Fashion Sustainability
Sites of Fashion Politics:
- Fashion Shows and the Fashion Calendar
- The Fashion Protest: fashionrevolution.org
- Student-led research sites and case studies
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 22 | 11 x 2 hour Students will be given guided opportunities to initiate and lead seminar discussions. Students will be expected to engage with their peers and provide constructive feedback on occasion. |
| Guided Independent Study | 43 | Private study students are expected to read suggested texts and make notes prior to seminar sessions. |
| Guided Independent Study | 85 | Assessment reading, preparation and writing and writing: 10 hours to formative, peer review, and self-assessment activities 50 hours to independent research, reading, and writing 20 hours to creative research practice 5 hours to presentation preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Fashion Revolution: www.fashionrevolution.org
Business of Fashion: www.businessoffashion.com
Fashion Week Online: http://fashionweekonline.com
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Project Proposal & Contract | 750 words | 8-10 | Verbal & written |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | 0 | 20 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group Research Presentation | 20 | 10 minutes | 1-10 | written Peer: verbal |
| Critical Research Paper | 40 | 2,500 words | 1-6, 8-10 | Written |
| Creative Research Practice | 40 | 1,500 words + creative | 1-6, 9-10 | Written |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Research Paper | Critical Research Paper 2,500 words | 1-6, 8-10 | August/September reassessment period |
| Creative Research Practice | Creative Research Practice 1500 words | 1-6, 9-10 | August/September reassessment period |
| Combined Research Presentation | 1,000 word summary | 1-10 | August/September assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Core (selections only):
Behnke, A. 2016. The International Politics of Fashion: Being Fab in a Dangerous World. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (e-book available)
Secondary:
Bleiker, R. 2017. In Search of Thinking Space: Reflections on the Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory. Millennium Vol. 45(2) 258–264.
Bleiker, R. 2009. The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory. Aesthetics and World Politics. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave McMillan. 18-47.
Crewe, L. 2010. Wear:where? The convergent geographies of architecture and fashion. Environment and Planning A 42: 2093-2108. DOI:10.1068/a42254
-----. 2008. Ugly beautiful?: Counting the cost of the global fashion Industry. Geography 93 (1): 25-33.
Entwhistle, J. and A. Rocamora. The field of fashion materialized: A study of London Fashion Week. Sociology 40 (1): 735-751.
Grayson, K., M. Davies and S. Philpott. 2009. Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture–World Politics Continuum. Politics 29 (3): 155-163.
May, Christopher. 2016. Towards an international politics of fashion (book review). LSE Review of Books, October 7. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/10/07/book-review-the-international-politics-of-fashion-being-fab-in-a-dangerous-world-by-andreas-behnke/.
McRobbie, A. 2013. Fashion matters Berlin: City-spaces, women’s working lives, new social enterprise? Cultural Studies 27 (6): 982-1010.
Parkins, I. 2015. Hurricane Sandy in Vogue. Australian Feminist Studies 30 (85): 221-237.
Van de Peer, A. 2014. So last season: The production of the fashion present in the politics of time. Fashion Theory 18 (3): 317-340. DOI 10.2752/175174114X13938552557880.
Weller, S. 2013. Consuming the city: Public fashion festivals and the participatory economies of urban spaces in Melbourne, Australia. Urban Studies 50 (14): 2853-2868.
