Outputs (34)

Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research (2023)
Journal Article
Evans, D. M., & Gregson, N. (2023). Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research. Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231156339

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 the field,... Read More about Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research.

Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between fmobilities and political economy through mobile work (2023)
Journal Article
Gregson, N. (2023). Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between fmobilities and political economy through mobile work. Mobilities, 18(6), 888-902. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2158041

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 of the lit... Read More about Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between fmobilities and political economy through mobile work.

England’s municipal waste regime: challenges and prospects (2021)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., & Foreman, P. J. (2021). England’s municipal waste regime: challenges and prospects. The Geographical Journal, 187(3), 214-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12386

This paper provides a synthetic account of England’s municipal waste regime at the end of the 2010s, drawing on quantitative data (WasteDataFlow), a dataset of 1604 local authority waste management contracts and an archive assembled from publicly ava... Read More about England’s municipal waste regime: challenges and prospects.

Made in China and the new world of secondary resource recovery (2018)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2019). Made in China and the new world of secondary resource recovery. Environment and Planning A, 51(4), 1031-1040. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18791175

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 another 32 c... Read More about Made in China and the new world of secondary resource recovery.

Interdisciplinarity in Transdisciplinary Projects: Circulating Knowledges, Practices and Effects (2018)
Journal Article
Holmes, H., Gregson, N., Watson, M., Buckley, A., Chiles, P., Krzywoszynska, A., & Maywin, J. (2018). Interdisciplinarity in Transdisciplinary Projects: Circulating Knowledges, Practices and Effects. disP - The Planning Review, 54(2), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2018.1487646

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 and reflec... Read More about Interdisciplinarity in Transdisciplinary Projects: Circulating Knowledges, Practices and Effects.

Mobilities, mobile work and habitation: truck drivers and the crisis in occupational auto-mobility in the UK (2017)
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Gregson, N. (2018). Mobilities, mobile work and habitation: truck drivers and the crisis in occupational auto-mobility in the UK. Mobilities, 13(3), 291-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1343987

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 emerges wh... Read More about Mobilities, mobile work and habitation: truck drivers and the crisis in occupational auto-mobility in the UK.

Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation (2016)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2017). Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(2), 206-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12158

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 among whic... Read More about Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation.

Holding together logistical worlds: friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’ (2016)
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Gregson, N., Crang, M., & Antonopoulos, C. (2017). Holding together logistical worlds: friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(3), 381-398. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816671721

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 mobilities, as... Read More about Holding together logistical worlds: friction, seams and circulation in the emerging ‘global warehouse’.

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies (2015)
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Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 40(1), 151-176. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021105

We outline the frameworks that shape and hold apart waste debates in and about Global North and South and that hinder analysis of flows between them. Typically waste is addressed as municipal waste, resulting in a focus on domestic consumption and ur... Read More about From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies.

Logistics at work: trucks, containers and the friction of circulation in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Gregson, N. (2015). Logistics at work: trucks, containers and the friction of circulation in the UK. Mobilities, 12(3), 343-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2015.1087680

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 logistics purc... Read More about Logistics at work: trucks, containers and the friction of circulation in the UK.