Fashion from Below by Karlotta Jule Bahnsen

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Bolivian migrants are transforming Buenos Aires’ garment industry through cooperation, gendered agency, and transnational ties.

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Fashion from Below by Karlotta Jule Bahnsen

In Buenos Aires' garment industry, workers reshape precarious working conditions through collective organization and throughout their trajectories of migration and garment work. Moving beyond victimizing or criminalizing narratives, Karlotta Jule Bahnsen offers an ethnographic view of migrant workers' negotiations of intersectional inequalities across migration, gender, and labor, highlighting processes of transformation, transnational networks, and the hidden structures sustaining Buenos Aires' urban fashion industry. This unique perspective speaks to scholars of Latin America, informal labor in global industries, migration, and gender, while offering a vivid account of agency that resonates beyond academia.
Karlotta Jule Bahnsen is a social and cultural anthropologist who received her PhD from the Department of History and Cultural Studies and the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on migration, the global garment industry, urban popular economies, intersectional inequalities and gender relations.
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ISBN 13 9783837680669
ISBN 10 3837680665
Title Fashion from Below
Author Karlotta Jule Bahnsen
Series Culture And Social Practice
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
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Year published 2026-03-31
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