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Amaranta Wright - Ripped And Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream - 9780091900847 - KMK0005914
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Ripped And Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream

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Description for Ripped And Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream Paperback. The author was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin American, befriending teenagers and reporting back with details of their ideas, hopes, fears and aspirations. This book is a humane portrait of this elusive continent in crisis - riddled with paradox, complexity, beauty and brutality. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFFS; KJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear

Amaranta Wright was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin America. Her brief was to befriend teenagers and report back with every aspect of their lives: their hopes, fears, dreams and aspirations. At first, she saw the job as a means to travel around a continent she loved. But as time passed, the more sinister and divisive aspects of what she was being asked to do became apparent, her attempts to understand the dispossessed of these countries constantly frustrated by the mechanics of corporate globalisation - its unspoken aim to reduce individuals to ... Read more

This is a compellingly humane portrait of a continent in crisis - riddled with paradox, complexity, beauty and brutality. It is a book about the arrogance with which we in the West refer to 'developing' continents, the developed world's overarching desire to turn people into consumers, and the often insidious methods employed to this end. It is about what happens when indigenous voices are silenced by corporate vision.

An evocative, startling and politically-incisive book.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091900847
SKU
KMK0005914
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Amaranta Wright
Amaranta Wright was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. After reading History at Magdalen College, Oxford, she returned to Argentina and wrote for the Buenos Aires Herald. It was while working in Miami that she was recruited by Levi Strauss as an undercover researcher. Her brief was to investigate the youth of Latin America. She writes for the Financial Times, ... Read more

Reviews for Ripped And Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream
A gripping, stirring trip
Independent
An intriguing read on the politics and passions of changing nations
Sunday Times Travel Magazine
This striking book ... exposes the wider neo-liberal economic model which enables Levi's and others to turn a buck at the expense of vulnerable communities
The Times
The book's power comes from the sense ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Ripped And Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream


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