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Awards
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 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London)Publisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.392kg ISBN: 9780745334127ISBN 10: 0745334121 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 20 May 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsInnovative, 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. -- Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science 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. -- Ulf Hannerz, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University 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. -- Craig Calhoun, President and School Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science 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. -- Ulf Hannerz, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University 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. -- Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science Author InformationCaroline Knowles is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads (Pluto, 2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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