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Flip-Flop : A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by Caroline Knowles (2014, Uk-Trade Paper)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPluto Press
ISBN-100745334113
ISBN-139780745334110
eBay Product ID (ePID)168244655
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameFlip-Flop : a Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
SubjectGlobalization, Fashion & Accessories
TypeTextbook
AuthorCaroline Knowles
Subject AreaDesign, Political Science
FormatUk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'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 with flip-flops', 'A journey through globalisation's backroads ... Innovative, insightful, and by turns disturbing and inspiring', Innovative, insightful, and by turns disturbing and inspiring. Caroline Knowles leads a journey through globalisation's backroads that will inform and engage students and push professors to connect human experience and political economy., 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 with flip-flops.
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.482
Table Of ContentSeries Preface 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 Maps Index
SynopsisThis 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 the complexities, personal topographies and skills with which people navigate these global uncertainties. Flip-Flop provides new ways of thinking about globalisation from the vantage point of the shifting landscape crossed by a seemingly ordinary and everyday commodity., *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 the complexities, personal topographies and skills with which people navigate these global uncertainties. Flip-Flop provides new ways of thinking about globalisation from the vantage point of the shifting landscape crossed by a seemingly ordinary and everyday commodity., By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation.
LC Classification NumberJZ1318
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