Flip-Flop - A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads

An innovative and rigorous book.' Fred Halliday, Fortnight

List of contents

Acknowledgements Prologue 1 Navigating the Territories of the Trail 2 Oil - Maps Beneath the Sand 3 Choreographies of Petrochemistry 4 Plastic City 5 Plastic Village 6 Making Flip-Flops 7 Logistics, Borderlands and Uncertain Landings 8 Markets 9 Urban Navigation in Flip-Flops 10 Rubbish 11 Globalisation Revisited Notes Index

About the author

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).

Summary

By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Knowles, Caroline (Goldsmiths Knowles, Knowles Caroline
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2014
• EAN: 9780745334127
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3412-7
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture