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This book is about the global waste problem as defined by practitioners, how that has been framed as a problem and what the perspectives of critical social science have to offer: 1) to aid understanding of that problem; and 2) to tackle th…
View article: The Global Waste Problem and How to Think about It
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This chapter highlights that the framing of the global waste problem as one of too much waste shapes the interventions that have been suggested. It illustrates that by looking at both policy and activist understandings of the global waste …
View article: Notes
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This book is about the global waste problem as defined by practitioners, how that has been framed as a problem and what the perspectives of critical social science have to offer: 1) to aid understanding of that problem; and 2) to tackle th…
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This book is about the global waste problem as defined by practitioners, how that has been framed as a problem and what the perspectives of critical social science have to offer: 1) to aid understanding of that problem; and 2) to tackle th…
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This book is about the global waste problem as defined by practitioners, how that has been framed as a problem and what the perspectives of critical social science have to offer: 1) to aid understanding of that problem; and 2) to tackle th…
View article: Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research
Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research Open
This article provides an argument for why the sociology of consumption should be reorientated towards a money and finance sensibility. Proceeding from the observation that the rise of financialised capitalism has gone largely ignored in in…
View article: Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work
Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work Open
This paper demonstrates how mobilities perspectives might contribute to debates in political economy on labour and work, by interrogating mobility’s relation to work and labour. The paper makes four interventions. It offers (1) an overview…
View article: England’s municipal waste regime: Challenges and prospects
England’s municipal waste regime: Challenges and prospects Open
This paper provides a synthetic account of England’s municipal waste regime at the end of the 2010s. In technical‐material terms, the regime, previously heavily dependent upon landfill, is now characterised by energy‐from‐waste and recycli…
View article: UK Waste Management Contracts by Local Authority, 2018-2019
UK Waste Management Contracts by Local Authority, 2018-2019 Open
This database lists all known active waste disposal and collection contracts held by local councils across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as of March 2019. The following details (where available) are listed for each contract…
View article: Made in China and the new world of secondary resource recovery
Made in China and the new world of secondary resource recovery Open
On 18 July 2017, the Chinese government informed the World Trade Organization of its intention, by year end, to ban imports of recovered mixed paper, recycled plastic, textiles and vanadium slag. In April 2018, China extended that ban to a…
View article: Interdisciplinarity in Transdisciplinary Projects: Circulating Knowledges, Practices and Effects
Interdisciplinarity in Transdisciplinary Projects: Circulating Knowledges, Practices and Effects Open
This article argues that the emphasis on solving substantive “real-world” problems through interdisciplinary research collaboration can neglect the wider value created by such collaborations. Championing the role of a knowledge integration…
View article: Opening Up the Participation Laboratory
Opening Up the Participation Laboratory Open
How to embed reflexivity in public participation in techno-science and to open it up to the agency of publics are key concerns in current debates. There is a risk that engagements become limited to “laboratory experiments,” highly controll…
View article: Mobilities, mobile work and habitation: truck drivers and the crisis in occupational auto-mobility in the UK
Mobilities, mobile work and habitation: truck drivers and the crisis in occupational auto-mobility in the UK Open
This paper examines the relation between mobilities and mobile work through a focus on occupational auto-mobility and habitation. Drawing on qualitative research conducted on truck drivers/driving in South-east England, it shows habitation…
View article: Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation
Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation Open
This paper is concerned with how to think the illicit and illegal as part of economies. Economic geography has only recently begun to address this challenge but in limited ways. The paper shows the difficulties with those approaches, chief…
View article: Holding together logistical worlds: Friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’
Holding together logistical worlds: Friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’ Open
This paper examines logistics in the space of action between production and consumption to provide (1) a rethinking of logistical power, not as seamless flow but through seam space and friction, and (2) a re-conceptualisation of cargo mobi…
View article: Co-producing energy futures: impacts of participatory modelling
Co-producing energy futures: impacts of participatory modelling Open
This transdisciplinary research case study sought to disrupt the usual ways public participation shapes future energy systems. An interdisciplinary group of academics and a self-assembling public of a North English town co-produced ‘bottom…
View article: Co-producing energy futures: impacts of participatory modelling
Co-producing energy futures: impacts of participatory modelling Open
This transdisciplinary research case study sought to disrupt the usual ways public participation shapes future energy systems. An interdisciplinary group of academics and a self-assembling public of a North English town co-produced ‘bottom…
View article: From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies
From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies Open
We outline the frameworks that shape and hold apart waste debates in and about the Global North and Global South and that hinder analysis of flows between them. Typically, waste is addressed as municipal waste, resulting in a focus on dome…
View article: Logistics at Work: Trucks, Containers and the Friction of Circulation in the UK
Logistics at Work: Trucks, Containers and the Friction of Circulation in the UK Open
This paper examines logistics at work, focusing on owner-drivers in the UK container haulage industry. It draws on qualitative research conducted in south-east England in 2013 to show that the just-in-time 24/7/365 delivery required by log…
View article: Interrogating the circular economy: the moral economy of resource recovery in the EU
Interrogating the circular economy: the moral economy of resource recovery in the EU Open
The concept of the circular economy has gained increasing prominence in academic, practitioner and policy circles and is linked to greening economies and sustainable development. However, the idea is more often celebrated than critically i…