Knowles, Caroline. 2014. Trajetórias de um chinelo: micro-cenas da globalização. Contemporânea - Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar, 4(2), ISSN 2236-532X [Article]

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This paper chases a big issue – globalisation - through some small places: the (local) micro-scenes of the flip-flop trail. The paper suggests that globalisation is not as entrenched and robust as hegemonic accounts of globalisation insists: on the contrary it is fragile, shifting and context specific, generating multiple forms of uncertainty in the lives and landscapes it simultaneously sustains and undermines. The article is based on 6 years of ethnographic research following the trail of a pair of flips-flops from their extraction to their disposal.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	English title: Trajectories of a flip-flop: micro scenes of globalization
Keywords:	globalização frágil; trajetórias de um chinelo; precariedade global, fragile globalisation; flip-flop trail; global precarity.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR)
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published
Item ID:	18164
Date Deposited:	04 May 2016 09:28
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:17
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18164

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