Description
Book SynopsisBy tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation.
Trade Review'A journey through globalisation's backroads ... Innovative, insightful, and by turns disturbing and inspiring'
-- 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
Table of ContentsSeries 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
