Textile Economies

The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations local and global politics and diverse ideologies. Textile production and exchange represent a key node for the intersections of multiple aspects of ancient and modern economies including social-class relations gender tourism exchange commerce and transpolity relationships. A political economy of textiles discussed from a broad interdisciplinary perspective offers ways to understand cloth and clothing as parts of mutually constitutive processes that shape and reflect economic practices cultural ideologies and sociopolitical rank.