{"product_id":"why-we-cant-have-nice-things-9781478018612","title":"Why We Cant Have Nice Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the source of the bags’ design. In \u003ci\u003eWhy We Can’t Have Nice Things\u003c\/i\u003e Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the way social media users monitor the fashion market for the appearance of knockoff fashion, design theft, and plagiarism. Tracing the history of fashion antipiracy efforts back to the 1930s, she foregrounds the work of policing that has been tacitly outsourced to social media. Despite the social media concern for ethical fashion and consumption and the good intentions behind design policing, Pham shows that it has ironically deepened forms of social and market inequality, as it relies on and reinforces racist and colonial norms and ideas about what constitutes copying and what counts as creativity. These struggles over ethical fashion and intellectual property, P\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pham’s work offers a thorough look at how online behavior is shaping fashion industry actions and sheds light on the ways the current norms are failing some communities while granting protections to others.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Sarah Bartlett Schroeder * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. “Share This with Your Friends”: Crowdsourcing IP Regulation  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Regulating Fashion IP, Regulating Difference  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Asian Fashion Copycat  53\u003cbr\u003e 3. How Thai Social Media Users Made Balenciaga Pay for Copying the Sampeng Bag  77\u003cbr\u003e 4. “Ppl Knocking Each Other off Lol”: Diet Prada’s Politics of Refusal  99\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Why We Can't Have Nice Things  125\u003cbr\u003e Notes  131\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 147\u003cbr\u003e Index  165","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409009025367,"sku":"9781478018612","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018612.jpg?v=1730505073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-9781478018612","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}