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Presented at the 2nd International Popular Culture of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) Conference (2011, 29 June – 1 July), Langham Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand. ABSTRACT (2011) “’Lolita is back’. In 1996, Hannah J. L. Feldman made this statement in regard to an emerging phenomenon, represented, in art and popular culture, by a ‘triumphant emblemContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2011). Confronting the hegemony: The Japanese Lolita subculture and the ‘Lolita Complex’ [Conference paper, full text].”

Tuwhera Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2448 Abstract “My thesis investigates complex issues implied by and connected with the Japanese movement known generally as Gothic & Lolita (G&L), focussing specifically on the Lolita fashion-based subculture and psychological motivations behind it. It discusses the transmigration of the movement’s ideas from Eastern to Western to Eastern societies, including differing culturalContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2011). The Lolita Complex: A Japanese fashion subculture and its paradoxes [Master of Philosophy thesis, Auckland University of Technology].”

Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 5(2), 81-110. https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol5iss2id103 ABSTRACT “This paper discusses how museums and galleries might positively engage with Asian audiences and bring Asian communities into the museum environment. Museums are cultural institutions that should reflect, preserve, interpret and promote cultural heritage and communities. In the local Acts of theContinue reading “Chuang, B. K. Y., & Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2008). Loli-Pop in Auckland: Engaging Asian communities and audiences through the Museum.”

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Presented at Fashion in Fiction: An International Transdisciplinary Conference (2007, 26-27 May), University of Technology, Sydney Australia. ABSTRACT (2006) “Kamikaze Girls (dir. Tetsuya Nakashima, 2004) is a film that both extracts and informs the Japanese fashion subculture of the Elegant Gothic Lolita (EGL, gosuloli or Loli-Goth). Based on a light novel by Novala Takemoto (2002)Continue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. (2007). Kamikaze Girls and Loli-Goths [Conference paper, full text].”

Art, Design, Fashion & Cultural Historian, Critical Theorist & Anthropologist Dr. Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, Ph.D., M.Phil. (Hons., First-class), B.Art.Th. (Hons., Distinction), is an art, design, fashion and culture historian, critical theorist, and anthropologist. She has been recognised by the Humanities and Law panel of the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand as a specialistContinue reading “Dr. Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, Ph.D.”