Fashion, Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy

A Case Study of Japanese Fashion in Australia

AvTets Kimura

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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In 2010, the Japanese government established ‘The Office of Cool Japan’ to aim to boost its cultural and economic power by promoting Japanese culture in other countries. But can fashion culture in one country really influence public opinion in another? How far can cultural commodities act as vehicles of soft power, and to what extent does that soft power influence international policy?In this title, Dr Tets Kimura places fashion on the same playing field as manga, anime, videogames, pop music, and film. Through interviews from the Japanese Prime Minister’s adviser, diplomats, and public servants to key industry stakeholders including a designer, a model, and a retailer, he investigates how Japanese fashion can advance Japan’s national interests within a key strategic partner, Australia.Taking this Asia-Pacific relationship as a detailed case study, Kimura combines methods from the humanities with theories from social and political sciences to propose a compelling new model for measuring the impact and efficacy of soft power. Across case studies from Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garcons and Uniqlo to crucial policy issues from whaling in the Southern Ocean and disagreements on the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, this innovative study investigates the possibilities and limitations of fashion as a soft power tool and illuminates exciting new directions for policymakers and researchers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-02-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt:333 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350508705

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Tets Kimura, PhD, is an early career researcher in the creative arts at Flinders University, Australia. He has taught Japanese fashion at universities in Australia, Japan and Taiwan. His first book Exporting Japanese Aesthetics (2020) brings together case studies addressing the influences of Japanese culture.

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Fast fashion, sustainability, cultural mis/recognition, implicit racism, exoticism and Orientalism: all of these topics and more, are covered by fashion scholar Tets Kimura, in a very cool study, indeed.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Soft Power through What Japanese Fashion Reveals in Australia1. Cool Japan: An Alternative Approach to Soft PowerCoercive Realist Power in International RelationsNew “Meaning” in the Post-Cold War EraCool Japan: Japan’s Soft Power InitiativeSmart Power and Japan’s Alternative Approach to Soft Power2. Fashioning Japanese Fashion: Theorising the Intrinsic Meaning of Japanese FashionThe First Wave: The Importation and Adaptation of Japanese Culture and Aesthetics in the WestThe Second Wave: History and Theories Behind Revolution, Destruction and Anti-FashionContesting Western Fashion Classics to Explain Japanese FashionThe Driving Force of Real Japanese Fashion: The “Street” Nature of Sartorial Expressions of the Self within the Nation of “No Hope”3. Fashion and the Australia-Japan Relationship: From the Trade in Raw Fashion Materials to the Adoption of Japanese Fashion in AustraliaAn Early History of Australia-Japan RelationsWool to Connect Australia and JapanJapanese Silk to the Australian Market Akira Isogawa: Bringing Japan into Australian FashionAdopting Japanese Fashion in Contemporary Australia?Threads and Fashion as Diplomacy, Identity, and Cultural Dialogue 4. An Empirical Examination of the Soft Power Potential of Japanese Fashion in Australia Relevant Content Methodology and Findings from the Media Leading Up to Qualitative InterviewsQualitative InterviewsPost Abe’s Japan’s Approach to Soft PowerCan Japanese Fashion be a Vehicle of Soft Power in Australia?5. Japanese Fashion and Limitations of Soft Power: Attractions Don’t Guarantee Soft PowerThe “Whaling War” in the Southern OceanAnother Disagreement: Abduction of Children in International Marriages Between Australian and Japanese ParentsFashion as a Money-Making Tool Japanese Fashion Fails as a Vehicle of Soft Power in AustraliaShinzo Abe’s Invision and Soft Power in the MistConclusion: Final Reflections: Soft Power Unstitched Bibliography Index