Flip-flop : a journey through globalisation's backroads

Flip-flop : a journey through globalisation's backroads / Caroline Knowles.

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knowles, Caroline, 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2014.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Plastic footwear industry.
Thongs (Sandals)
Globalization.
thongs (footwear)
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Globalization
Plastic footwear industry
Globalisierung
Flip-Flop
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Table of Contents:
  • Navigating the territories of the trail
  • Oil : maps beneath the sand
  • Choreographies of petrochemistry
  • Plastic city
  • Plastic village
  • Making flip-flops
  • Logistics, borderlands and uncertain landings
  • Markets
  • Urban navigation in flip-flops
  • Rubbish
  • Globalisation revisited.

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