Serkan Delice

Biography

My research explores the possibility of wealth redistribution and reparations within and through fashion. I am currently conducting comparative research on Armenia, Palestine, Kurdistan, and their diasporas in the UK. I critically examine historical and contemporary practices of appropriation and extractivism within the fashion system. I aim to understand and challenge the mechanisms of capital accumulation such as racial dispossession, neocolonial domination, and nationalist enclosure.

I have recently published a book titled Fashion's Transnational Inequalities (co-edited together with A. Almila, Routledge, 2023), an investigation of how transnational capitalism creates inequalities both within and across national borders, and the ways in which these inequalities can be overcome through transnational collective action and solidarity.

I co-lead the LCF Transnational Fashion Network (TFN), the world’s first research body dedicated to investigating how fashion—as discourse, material object, performance, and visual and cultural economy—is produced, disseminated, and practiced across national borders, both historically and now.

I teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also oversee 6 ongoing PhD projects (as Director of Studies/First Supervisor for two of them, Second Supervisor for the others). My primary areas of PhD research supervision include postcolonial theory; decolonisation; theories of globalisation and transnationality; and the political economy of fashion.

I have a BA in English Language and Literature from Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University in 2002; an MA in Critical and Cultural Studies from the same university in 2005; and a PhD from London College of Fashion, UAL, in 2015. I taught sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University from 2003 to 2007 before starting to teach Cultural and Historical Studies at LCF in 2010.


RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

Delice, S., and A. Almila (co-eds.) (2023) Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities: Socio-Political, Economic, and Environmental. London & New York: Routledge.

Delice, S. (2023) ‘Where is living labour in fashion and cultural appropriation debates?’, in Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities
Socio-Political, Economic, and Environmental, edited by S. Delice and A. Almila. London & New York: Routledge.

Delice, S. (2022) 'Critiques of Appropriation and Transnational Labor Ethics' in Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture 'Fashion and Transnationality Special Issue' (ed. Dr Djurdja Bartlett). DOI: 10.1080/1362704X.2022.2046869.

Delice, S. (2019) 'Thrown Away Like a Piece of Cloth': Fashion Production and the European Refugee Crisis', in Fashion & Politics (ed. Dr Djurdja Bartlett) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 197-215.

Delice, S. (anticipated in 2024) ‘Frantz Fanon: Fashion and Decolonisation on a Planetary Scale’, in Thinking Through Fashion, edited by A. Rocamora and A. Smelik. London and New York: Bloomsbury (forthcoming).

Delice, S. (anticipated in 2024) 'How about the Violence of Capital? Fashion and the Difficulty of Reparation', in Fashion in Theory, edited by M. Pecorari. Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming)

Delice, S. and C. Stevenson (co-eds.) (anticipated in 2025) Fashion in a Postcapitalist World: Essays in Honour of Djurdja Bartlett (work-in-progress).