Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala by Thomas, Kedron

Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520290976)

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Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala by Thomas, Kedron

Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala

$29.95
Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala by Thomas, Kedron

Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative for people who cannot afford high-priced originals. Fashion companies have taken notice, ensuring that international trade agreements include stronger intellectual property protections to prevent brand "piracy." In Regulating Style, Kedron Thomas approaches the fashion industry from the perspective of indigenous Maya people who make and sell knockoffs, asking why they copy and wear popular brands, how they interact with legal frameworks and state institutions that criminalize their livelihood, and what is really at stake for fashion companies in the global regulation of style.


Author: Kedron Thomas
ISBN-10: 0520290976
ISBN-13: 9780520290976
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2016
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
By Kedron Thomas
By Kedron Thomas
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Kedron Thomas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is coeditor, with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, of Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala.

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