Going Nowhere Fast

Dr Sabina Lawreniuk is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is currently engaged in an activist research project, collaborating with trade unions, employers, regulators, global brands, and other industry stakeholders in the Cambodian garment sector to examine inequalities in global supply chains and empower marginalised women workers.Dr Laurie Parsons is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is recipient of a recent Global Challenges funding award offered jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the UK's Department for International Development entitled 'Blood Bricks', examining the relationship between climate change, migration and modern slavery in Cambodian brick factories.

• 1: Inequality in the Age of Translocality2: The Fallacy of Macroeconomic Indicators3: Mobile Inequality: Embedding Economic Flows in Mobile Social Structures4: Sowing and Sewing Inequality in the Home: the Everyday Experience of Translocality5: The Invisible Grabbing Hand: Translocal Ecologies of Economic Development6: The Village of the Damned? Narrative, Structure and the Coproduction of Translocal Mobility7: We move therefore we are, you don't so you are not: Cambodia's translocal politics of nationalism8: Framing a Total Social Fact

I found the book novel not just in terms of the empirical material and the arguments that are developed, but also in terms of the tenor of its argumentation. It is a research monograph but reads, in places, almost like an op-ed piece ... We see here an attempt - largely successful, I should add - to draw the reader into the authors' field sites, the empirical material they generate, and the arguments they explore. They are intent on making these places, conditions and debates accessible and understandable, so that we - the reader - are more likely to care, albeit from a distance.