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New York City – the most diverse, the most expensive, and dynamic city in the world attracts many people each year to live. However, your...

Dress lies at the margins of the body and marks the boundary between self and other, individual and society. This boundary is intimate and personal...

According to Maffesoli (1988, 1991, 1996), we are currently witnessing a resurgence of basic forms of community, a move away from rational, contractual social relationships...

Landscapes change. Virgin forests are cut down and turned into wheat fields and pasturelands; contaminated swamps are drained to become fertile lands; impressive dams in...

The dominant position in feminist studies exemplified by scholars such as Susan Bordo (1997) claims that consumer culture oppresses women by holding them to impossible...

The contemporary question that I shall discuss at this symposium may be articulated simply as follows: “What education, knowledge and pedagogy for what purpose in...

Select the ‘flat’ body block or the ‘flat’ shirt block for the kimono adaptation (depends on fit required). Extend to dress length if required. The...

In order to better understand the process involved in producing electrical power by nuclear fission plants, we should review some fundamentals. An atom is the...

Perhaps the most influential approach towards the study of fashion within the social sciences has been that associated with writers such as Veblen, Simmel and,...

This is the greeting given to telephone callers to Diesel Industries HQ in Molvena, Italy. Diesel makes no secret of its globalising philosophy: its founder,...