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• Short-listed for BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015 (UK)

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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 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

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Caroline 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).

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