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Abstract
As climate change has been recognized as our most pressing and urgent problem, fashion sustainability is moving toward new framings and discourses: various corporate actors are now successfully marketing themselves as part of the solution instead of being cast as part of the problem. The focal point of this chapter is the epistemic communities that are forming around powerful groups of professionals with corporate underpinnings. The influence of these communities on policy and industry developments are shaping the fashion sector’s response to climate change.
Drawing from the theoretical background of the epistemic communities’ framework in connection with literature on promotional cultures as a social and political force, this chapter argues that fashion sustainability research needs to pay more attention to the emergence, development, and character of the most powerful epistemic communities.
Drawing from the theoretical background of the epistemic communities’ framework in connection with literature on promotional cultures as a social and political force, this chapter argues that fashion sustainability research needs to pay more attention to the emergence, development, and character of the most powerful epistemic communities.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability in Fashion |
Editors | Claudia E. Henninger, Panayiota Alevizou, Daniella Ryding, Helen Goworek |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 2 |
Pages | 11-25 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-69682-4 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-69681-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Dec 2024 |
MoE publication type | A3 Book section, Chapters in research books |
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FINIX 2nd phase: Kohti kestäviä tekstiilisysteemejä: Resurssiviisaan globaalin tekstiililiiketoiminnan yhteiskehittäminen Suomeen Sustainable textile systems: Co-creating resource-wise business for Finland in global textile networks
Niinimäki, K. (Principal investigator), Lewe, E. (Project Member), Korhonen, A. (Project Member), Cura, K. (Project Member) & Karell, E. (Project Member)
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2025
Project: Academy of Finland: Strategic research funding