Lecture Series
Co-Creating Global South Fashion: Chinese-Made Garments and Textiles in Mozambique
Johanna von Pezold
Online event
6 May 2026, 14:00 CET
Johanna von Pezold is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC project “China Africa Fashion Power” based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Media Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. She graduated with a PhD in sociology from the University of Hong Kong. Based on ethnographic research in Mozambique and China (2017-2024), this talk highlights how Chinese-made garments and textiles become ‘fashion’ through everyday trade in Mozambique. It shows how diverse Global South actors co-create fashion outside Euro-American systems, reshaping markets, dress cultures, and fashion mediation from the South.