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Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer (2010)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akhtar, N., & Ferdous, R. (2010). Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. Geoforum, 41(6), 846-854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.007

There has been an upsurge of geographical work tracing globalised flows of commodities in the wake of Appadurai’s (1986) call to ‘follow the things’. This paper engages with calls to follow the thing but argues that work thus far has been concentrate... Read More about Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer.

The Death of Great Ships: photography, politics and waste in the global imaginary (2010)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2010). The Death of Great Ships: photography, politics and waste in the global imaginary. Environment and Planning A, 42(5), 1084-1102. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42414

The iconic images heralding an age of connectivity are the plane and the trace of digital flows bearing information. However, not far behind has been the cumbrous yet essential 'big box' of containerisation, shipping all manner of goods across the pl... Read More about The Death of Great Ships: photography, politics and waste in the global imaginary.