A World Laid Waste?: Responding to the Social, Cultural and Political Consequences of Globalisation

ISBN-13: 9780367886028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Francis Dodsworth; Antonia Walford

Opis

Globalisation and neo-liberalism have generated rapid economic growth and technological progress, but they have also laid waste to established communities, cultures and the natural environment. One outcome has been populist politics, playing on fears of change, but this book offers counter-narratives of hope emerging from the wastelands of globa

Spis treści

1. Must Brexit be a waste? Economic policies for a disunited kingdom, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Michael Moran and Karel Williams  2. ‘The Ghosts of Class’: Space, Waste and Hope in the Ex-Industrial North’, Niall Cunningham, Andrew Miles and Adrian Leguina  3. Rubbish City, Rubbish Music: Durability and Transience in ‘Madchester’ Club Cultures, Jill Ebrey  4. Coping with Change: Community, Environment, and Engagement in a London Buddhist Community, Francis Dodsworth and Sophie Watson  5. A Waste of Energy? Traversing the Moral Landscape of Energy Consumption in the UK, Hannah Knox  6. Reconfiguring State-Citizen Relations: The Politics of Waste Infrastructures, Penny Harvey, Yannis Kallianos and Camilla Lewis  7. Refugee Waste: Death, Survival and Solidarity in Lesvos, Marie Gillespie

O autorze

Francis Dodsworth is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Kingston University, London, where he has taught criminology and sociology since 2014. Previously, he worked for ten years in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University. During that time, he published in several fields ranging from the history of crime, policing and personal protection to the history of architecture and urban improvement and contemporary and historical religious cultures.

Antonia Walford is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Anthropology at University College London, and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen. Previously, she was a Research Associate in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, in the Social Life of Methods. Her work explores the effects of the exponential growth of digital data on social and cultural imaginaries and practices, focusing particularly on large-scale digitisation in the environmental sciences.