{"product_id":"9780253004505","title":"Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn today's globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north\u003cbr\u003e India may become a woman's blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy\u003cbr\u003e Norris's anthropological study of the recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments\u003cbr\u003e as they are gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts\u003cbr\u003e of clothing are used to make and break relationships within middle-class households,\u003cbr\u003e but a growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of\u003cbr\u003e textile waste. When old clothing is, for instance, bartered for new kitchen\u003cbr\u003e utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it may be resold to the\u003cbr\u003e poor or remade into new textiles and exported. Norris traces these local and\u003cbr\u003e transnational flows through homes and markets as she tells the stories of the people\u003cbr\u003e who work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080679375088,"sku":"9780253004505","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253004505_p0.jpg?v=1763680784","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253004505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}