Kniha Salaula Karen Tranberg Hansen

Salaula

The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství
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When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2000
Stránek
288
EAN
9780226315805
Enbook ID
04545587
Hmotnost
636
Rozměry
162 x 237 x 27

Kompletní popis

When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of "Salaula", a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile". Essential for the African economy, the secondhand clothing business is wildly popular, to the point of threatening the indigenous textile industry. But, Hansen shows, wearing secondhand clothes is about much more than imitating Western style. It is about taking a garment and altering it to something entirely local, something that adheres to current cultural norms of etiquette. By unravelling how these garments become entangled in the economic, political and cultural processes of contemporary Zambia, Hansen also raises provocative questions about environmentalism, charity, recycling and thrift.

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