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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)
Journal Article
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’.

Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. (2015)
Book Chapter
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. In J. Michie, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Why the Social Sciences Matter (60-76). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter shows that the social sciences are critical to the challenge of turning wastes to resources via materials recovery and recycling. For wastes to become resources they have to become products, bought and sold in markets. Economics and the... Read More about Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU..

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Interrogating the Circular Economy: the Moral Economy of Resource Recovery in the EU (2015)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Fuller, S., & Holmes, H. (2015). Interrogating the Circular Economy: the Moral Economy of Resource Recovery in the EU. Economy and Society, 44(2), 218-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2015.1013353

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 interrogated... Read More about Interrogating the Circular Economy: the Moral Economy of Resource Recovery in the EU.

Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU (2014)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Botticello, J., Calestani, M., & Krzywoszynska, A. (2016). Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(3), 541-555. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776414554489

Europe has set out its plans to foster a ‘green economy’, focused around recycling, by 2020. This pan-European recycling economy, it is argued, will have the triple virtues of: first, stopping wastes being ‘dumped’ on poor countries; second, reusing... Read More about Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU.

Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste prevention (2013)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Laws, J., Fleetwood, T., & Holmes, H. (2013). Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste prevention. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 77, 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.06.005

Moving up the waste hierarchy is a key priority for UK waste policy. Waste prevention requires policy interventions to promote reuse. The term ‘reuse exchange’ has been adopted by UK policy makers to describe a variety of second-hand trading outlets... Read More about Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste prevention.

Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks (2013)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Hughes, A., Gregson, N., Norris, L., & Ahamed, F. (2013). Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1), 12-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00515.x

The dominant political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains, in particular from global Sou... Read More about Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks.

Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex (2012)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akter, N., Ferdous, R., Foisal, S., & Hudson, R. (2012). Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex. Economic Geography, 88(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01138.x

This article both joins with recent arguments in economic geography that have made connections between work on industrial symbiosis and agglomerative tendencies and recasts this work. Drawing on the case of Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, it shows th... Read More about Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex.

Souvenir, Salvage and the Death of Great Naval Ships (2011)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., & Watkins, H. (2011). Souvenir, Salvage and the Death of Great Naval Ships. Journal of Material Culture, 16(3), 301-324. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183511412882

This paper examines the social and physical death of naval ships as a form of military material culture. It draws on ethnographic research with veteran’s associations in the UK and US, and in a UK ship breaking yard, to explore the relationship of a... Read More about Souvenir, Salvage and the Death of Great Naval Ships.

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.