Ripped and Torn : Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Never preaching, always aware of why the individuals she meets are so ready to buy into the consumer dream, Wright details an unforgettable journey of personal discovery while exposing the nihilism which underwrites our global economy.”
–Independent on Sunday
“The book’s power comes from the sense that she dives straight in, that she wears the glad rags, pops the pills, dances the dances and loves the people she meets.”
–The Guardian
“An intriguing read on the politics and passions of changing nations.”
–Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Book Description
A powerful and thought-provoking account of the destructive spread of corporate globalization. What happens when indigenous voices are silenced by corporate vision?
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 on 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, as she attempted to understand the dispossessed of these countries who are constantly frustrated by the mechanics of corporate globalization and its unspoken aim to reduce individuals to bullet points.
This is a compellingly humane portrait of a continent in crisis — brimming 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.
In Ripped and Torn, Amaranta Wright has written an evocative, startling and politically-incisive book.
Ripped and Torn : Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream
Ripped and Torn : Levi's, Latin America and the Blue Jean Dream,Amaranta Wright,Ebury Press,0091900832,International - General,International Relations - Trade & Tariffs,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Public Policy - Economic Policy,American studies,Globalization,International business,Latin America,Political Science / General
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