The Waste of the World
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Geography
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Alan Metcalfe (Author)
(2011)
Wasted lives : household biographies, practices and contexts of waste - a qualitative approach
Alan Metcalfe (Author)
(2010)
Energy from waste : Alan Metcalfe plots the current, and proposed, incineration sites in the UK, concluding that capacity could double, treble or even quadruple
in CIWM journal
Alexander, Catherine; Reno, Joshua
(2012)
Recycling Economies: Global Transformations of Materials, Values and Social Relations
Andreas Haufler (Author)
(2008)
The social/material construction of "problem wastes" in the UK steel industry
Anna Krzywoszynska (Author)
(2011)
Spotlight on waste : uncovering the global food scandal by Tristram Stuart
in Geography
Anna Krzywoszynska (author)
(2008)
Whose agency? : actor network theory and research practice
Anna Krzywoszynska (author)
(2009)
Partial knowing, partial control - the role of yeast in practices of organic wine making
Anna Krzywoszynska (author)
(2009)
Green winemakers : the place of nature in the ethics of Italian organic winemaking
Ben Lockwood (Author)
(2009)
How blue jeans went green : denim shoddy and the recycling of values
Bickerstaff K
(2009)
Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of Environmental Justice in North-east England
in Antipode
| Description | Author of Chapter 1 of forthcoming Government Science Report: From Waste to Resource Productivity; citation in another chapter of the report. Report published 11 January 2018 - available via following link https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/from-waste-to-resource-productivity |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/from-waste-to-resource-productivity |
| Description | A right to pollute? : the social dynamics of law and industrial water pollution in France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/wrpg/new.html |
| Description | Community waste recycling and local authorities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at 'Geographies of re-use' workshop, at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Death, the phoenix and pandora : end of life ships, chock-chocky furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | 'Geographies of reuse' workshop, held at the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS), University of Sheffield, a two-day symposium exploring the dynamics of everyday consumption practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.icoss.dept.shef.ac.uk/fossevents/index.php?fltr=date |
| Description | External rapporteur's observations and lessons learnt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | John Walls was invited by the NEA Secretariat to observe and offer feedback on what was heard at the 'Radioactive waste repositories and host regions : envisaging the future together' workshop, organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/fsc/documents/FSC_Workshop_France_2009_Proceedings_En_000.pdf |
| Description | Framed : India recycled! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Review of photographic exhibition 'India recycled' at the Horniman Museum, May 24th 2008 to January 25th 2009 by Aindrila Mitra. Asian voice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Inextinguishable fibres : demolition and the vital materialisms of asbestos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Open University departmental research seminar, based on a research paper, presented as part of the OU's 'open forum' series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/about-the-faculty/departments/geography/research/international-... |
| Description | Inextinguishable fibres: demolition and the vital materialisms of asbestos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Open University departmental research seminar, based on a research paper, presented as part of the OU's 'open forum' series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/about-the-faculty/departments/geography/research/international-... |
| Description | Is recycling your old clothes worth it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article by Fleur Brittain based upon content of photographic exhibition, India Recycled at the Horniman Museum. Sunday Times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3985803.ece |
| Description | Law and the fabric of space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper, departmental seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Material, literary narrative and cultural economy : Primo Levi and the industrial short story |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented as part of the 'international workshops and seminars' series at The Open University's Department of Geography. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/about-the-faculty/departments/geography/research/international-... |
| Description | Rapporteurs reflections |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | NEA forum on stakeholder confidence workshop, repositories and host regions : envisaging the future together |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.nea.fr/html/rwm/fsc.html |
| Description | Routes et territoires des matières nucléaires |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Radio programme for Radio France Culture on nuclear waste. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Social technologies of recycling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Institute of Civil Engineers annual lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Souvenir salvage and the death of great naval ships |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Gregson's talk is entitled "Souvenir salvage and the death of great naval ships." This talk examines the social and physical death of naval ships as a form of military material culture. It draws on ethnographic research with veterans' associations in the UK and US, and in a UK ship breaking yard, to explore the relationship of a naval ship's social and physical death to memorialisation, souvenir manufacture and souvenir salvage. For ex-navy personnel, it is normative to memorialize a naval ship through a range of manufactured souvenirs worn in everyday life. The social death of naval ships has, until recently, been largely disconnected from the sites of their physical death, or destruction, but the advent of ethical disposal policies in the UK has brought about the geographical compression of the two. The talk charts three phases of ex-naval personnel's engagement with the destruction of "their ships": pilgrimage, souvenir salvage and collective memorialization. Gregson argues that proximate visualized destruction makes ex-naval personnel witnesses to an object's death and that resource recovery regimes should not only be considered recycling of materials but also their reincarnation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/past-events-09-10/salvage-ships-gregson.html |
| Description | Support grows for Hong Kong convention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Professor Nicky Gregson is interviewed about the ship recycling industry. TradeWinds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.tradewinds.no/ |
| Description | The cost of globalisation : producing new forms of risk to health and well-being |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited public lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://scg.iec.cat/Scg9/Scg90/S97081.htm |
| Description | Where old clothes go to die |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article by Fleur Britten based upon content of photographic exhibition India Recycled at the Horniman Museum, May 24th 2008 to January 25th 2009. The Sunday Times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Why some factories become waste material |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The business of waste : past, present and future. Session four (part one) : Waste as a source of economic growth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/media/media_150293_en.pdf |