Dr Anna-Mari Almila
Title
Research Fellow: Sociology of Fashion
College
London College of Fashion
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Biography
Anna-Mari Almila is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, UAL. She writes in the fields of cultural, global and historical sociology, and her topics include the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments; fashion globalization and the history of fashion studies; the historical/political construction of urban spaces; and wine and gender. She loves social theory and (sociology of) wine. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2018). Her edited books include The Globalization of Wine (2019 Bloomsbury), The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2016).Research Outputs
Article
- Almila A-M. From protestant peasant dress to gay pride t-shirt: transformations in sartorial strategy amongst the körtti movement in Finland (2019)
- Almila A-M, Inglis D. On the Hijab-Gift: Gift-Theoretical Considerations on the Ambiguities and Ambivalences of Islamic Veiling in a Diasporic Context (2018)
- Almila A-M. The Dressed Body, Material and Technology: Rethinking the Hijab through Sartorial Sociology (2018)
- Almila A-M. Fashion, Anti-Fashion, Non-Fashion and Symbolic Capital: The Uses of Dress among Muslim Minorities in Finland (2015)
Book
- Almila A-M. Veiling in Fashion: Space, Materiality and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2018)
Book Section
- Almila A-M. The Hijab as Gift: Mechanisms of Community Socialization in the Muslim Diaspora (2018)
- Almila A-M, Inglis D. Creating and Routinizing Style and Immediacy: Keith Floyd and the South-West English Roots of New Cookery Mediatizations (2018)
- Zeilig H, Almila A-M. ‘It’s play, really, isn’t it?’ Dress, creativity, old age (2018)
- Almila A-M. Veiling, Gender and Space: On the Fluidity of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ (2017)
- Almila A-M. Introduction: The Veil across the Globe in Politics, Everyday Life, and Fashion (2017)
- Almila A-M. Veiling Studies and Globalization Studies (2017)
- Almila A-M. What is ‘Fashion’ Really? The Promise of an Ecumenical Analytic for Fashion Studies and Beyond in a Globalized World (2017)
- Almila A-M. Cultural Sociology of Fashion: On the Sartorial, Symbolic and Social (2016)
- Almila A-M. Actor Network Theory and Its Cultural Uses (2016)
- Almila A-M. Dress, Comfort and Vulnerability: The Intimate Hijab and Religious Habitus (2014)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Almila A-M. Bending space, managing bodies: veiling, gender and urban space in Finland (2018)
- Zeilig H, Almila A-M. It's Play Really, Isn't It? Dress, Creativity, Old Age (2018)
- Almila A-M. Fashion cosmopolitanism and the de-cosmopolitization of European realities (2017)
- Almila A-M. The Art of Burkini: Design and Political Cartoons as Gestures that Matter (2017)
- Almila A-M. Sizes and scales of fashion research: connecting bodies and garments from skin to globality (2017)
- Almila A-M. For Sartorial Sociology: On Dress, Materiality, Technology, and Comfort (2016)
- Almila A-M, Zeilig H. Dressed to the Nineties: Fashion, Creativity and Old Age (2016)
- Almila A-M. From pre-modern fashion systems to value illusion today – on fashion and global inequality (2015)
- Almila A-M. Fashion Beyond Western Modernity: A Critique of the ‘Non-Western Fashion’ Concept (2015)
- Almila A-M. Space, Sport and Resistance: negotiating agency and respectability in Muslim women’s sport practices in Finland (2015)
- Almila A-M, Inglis D. Who Is Allowed to be Private in Public Space? Veils, Masking and the Rule Violations of Muslim Women in Finland (2014)
- Almila A-M. Veiling and Visibility in the City: The Hijab and Public Space in Finland (2014)
Thesis
- Almila A-M. Hijab as Dress: Muslim Women’s Clothing Strategies in Contemporary Finland (2014)
Teaching
Current research students
- Kamaira Anderson, Theorising Hip-Hop Dance in London and Los Angeles through Community, Clothing and Chorus. (Lead supervisor)
- Eleanor Foden, Demythologising the sixties; reappraising the British rock groupie and her relationship to second wave feminism. (Lead supervisor)
- Premila van Ommen, Being Gurkha, Becoming British: Fashion and Creativity of Young Nepali Migrants in Diaspora. (Lead supervisor)