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Flip-flop : a journey through globalisation's backroads / Caroline Knowles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knowles, Caroline, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Anthropology, Culture and Society
- Anthropology, culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- Thongs (Sandals).
- Plastic footwear industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Series 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2014).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78371-150-7
- OCLC:
- 880935601
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