Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 1793
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- ISBN
- 9780745334110
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 217 page book involved ethnographic data collection in five countries – Kuwait, Korea, China, Somalia and Ethiopia – in difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances. Following the trail of a flip-flop, and focusing on the sometimes opaque or invisible connections between these countries as well as the countries themselves, involved a great deal of time, sensitivity and detective work. Research included interviewing workers in Chinese factories, risking discovery, and illegal traders who were protected by armed guards. The result is a work of unusual empirical and conceptual scale and scope, where a complex and sustained engagement with globalisation is advanced.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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