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

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Knowles, Caroline, 1954- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2014Distributor: New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave MacmillanCopyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781783711505
1783711507
9781783711512
1783711515
9781783711529
1783711523

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flip-flop.DDC classification:

338.4/76853 23

LOC classification:

HD9662.F642 K56 2014

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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.

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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