All Outputs (3)

Practices of object maintenance and repair: how consumers attend to consumer objects within the home (2009)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Metcalfe, A., & Crewe, L. (2009). Practices of object maintenance and repair: how consumers attend to consumer objects within the home. Journal of Consumer Culture, 9(2), 248-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540509104376

This article examines the practices of object maintenance in the home. Drawing on depth ethnographic research with households in north-east England, the article uses three object stories to show that ordinary consumer objects are continually becoming... Read More about Practices of object maintenance and repair: how consumers attend to consumer objects within the home.

Material, literary narrative and cultural economy (2009)
Journal Article
Gregson, N. (2009). Material, literary narrative and cultural economy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2(3), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350903345520

In this paper I argue that thinking about the material in cultural economy has much to gain from culture itself. Specifically, I explore the potential of literary narrative for conceptualizing and writing material within a performative cultural econo... Read More about Material, literary narrative and cultural economy.

Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation (2009)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Gregson, N. (2009). Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation. Environment and Planning A, 41(4), 929-945. https://doi.org/10.1068/a40261

This paper connects research on home-based consumption with research on waste policy and governance. We argue that, in order to meet the enhanced goals of waste reduction specified in Waste Strategy for England 2007, UK municipal waste policy needs a... Read More about Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation.