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4943
National Ranking
835

Overview

Nicky Gregson is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on areas including Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Urban Studies, and Public Administration. Their research covers a variety of interconnected topics such as Municipal Solid Waste Management, Urban Planning and Governance, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Labor Movements and Unions, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

Recent publications by Gregson include:

  • England's municipal waste regime: Challenges and prospects, 2021, Geographical Journal
  • Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work, 2023, Mobilities
  • Living With Things 15 Years on, 2023, Home Cultures

Gregson has frequently collaborated with co-authors such as Peter Forman and David M. Evans. Their work is also commonly published through venues including Bristol University Press eBooks, Geographical Journal, Mobilities, Sociology, and Home Cultures.

The scholar has several book publications under Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press, notably multiple editions titled The Waste of the World published in 2023. These works contribute to the broader discussion around waste, consumption, and environmental governance.

Gregson's research interests span key societal and environmental challenges, particularly within municipal waste management and urban governance, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to the social sciences. Their work also addresses the transformations in work and labor in the context of digital and economic changes.

Best Publications

  • Taking Butler elsewhere : performativities, spatialities and subjectivities.

    Nicky Gregson;Gillian Rose

  • Interrogating the circular economy: the moral economy of resource recovery in the EU

    Nicky Gregson;Mike Crang;Sara Fuller;Helen Holmes

  • Second-hand cultures

    Nicky Gregson;Louise Crewe

  • Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain

    Nicky Gregson;Michelle Lowe

  • Moving things along: the conduits and practices of divestment in consumption

    Nicky Gregson;Alan Metcalfe;Louise Crewe

  • Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, 'chock-chocky' furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer

    N. Gregson;M. Crang;F. Ahamed;F. Ahamed;N. Akhter

  • Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society

    Nicky Gregson;Alan Metcalfe;Louise Crewe

  • Living with things : ridding, accommodation, dwelling

    Nicky Gregson

  • Materiality and Waste: Inorganic Vitality in a Networked World

    Nicky Gregson;Mike Crang

  • Practices of Object Maintenance and Repair: How consumers attend to consumer objects within the home

    Nicky Gregson;Alan Metcalfe;Louise Crewe

  • Tales of the Unexpected: Exploring Car Boot Sales as Marginal Spaces of Contemporary Consumption

    Louise Crewe;Nicky Gregson

  • Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks

    Mike Crang;Alex Hughes;Nicky Gregson;Lucy Norris

  • Crossing the Threshold: Municipal Waste Policy and Household Waste Generation:

    Harriet Bulkeley;Nicky Gregson

  • From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

    Nicky Gregson;Mike Crang

  • The Meaning of Work Some Arguments for the Importance of Culture within Formulations of Work in Europe

    Nicky Gregson;Kirsten Simonsen;Dina Vaiou

  • The Bargain, the Knowledge, and the Spectacle: Making Sense of Consumption in the Space of the Car-Boot Sale:

    Nicky Gregson;Louise Crewe

  • PATRIARCHY: TOWARDS A RECONCEPTUALISATION*:

    Jo Foord;Nicky Gregson

  • Shopping, Space, and Practice

    Nicky Gregson;Louise Crewe;Kate Brooks

  • And now it's all consumption?:

    Nicky Gregson

  • Inextinguishable fibres: demolition and the vital materialisms of asbestos

    Nicky Gregson;Helen Watkins;Melania Calestani

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Crang
Mike Crang Durham University
Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose University of Oxford
David G. Lidzey
David G. Lidzey University of Sheffield
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Sarah L. Holloway
Sarah L. Holloway Loughborough University
Sarah A. Radcliffe
Sarah A. Radcliffe University of Cambridge

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