Flip-Flop

A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Caroline Knowles ISBN: 9781783711512
Publisher: Pluto Press Publication: May 20, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Caroline Knowles
ISBN: 9781783711512
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication: May 20, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

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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.

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