Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads

by Caroline Knowles

Book Overview

*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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745334113
• ISBN13: 9780745334110
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"