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Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation´s Backroads
Caroline Knowles
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Description for Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation´s Backroads
Paperback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*
This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.
Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows that globalisation along the flip-flop trail is a tangle of unstable, shifting, ad hoc and contingent connections. This book displays both the instabilities of the 'chains' and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Condition
New
Weight
286g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745334110
SKU
V9780745334110
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-24
About Caroline Knowles
Caroline Knowles is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads (Pluto, 2014).
Reviews for Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation´s Backroads
'A journey through globalisation's backroads ... Innovative, insightful, and by turns disturbing and inspiring'
Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science 'If you are invited to Davos, shiny shoes, high heels or ski boots may be in order. For understanding much of the rest of the world, Caroline Knowles shows, you think better ... Read more
Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science 'If you are invited to Davos, shiny shoes, high heels or ski boots may be in order. For understanding much of the rest of the world, Caroline Knowles shows, you think better ... Read more