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Author Archives: Joost Van Loon

EVERYTHING MUST GO

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

… a conference about talking rubbish
Program
Saturday 21st January 2012
11.15-1.00pm ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE USED CLOTHING TRADE
Chair: Professor Nicky Gregson, Durham University
‘
Between A and B: Reprocessing Western second-hand clothing for global markets.’
Julie Botticello (Research Associate, SOAS)
‘The World of Calamity Clothing in Mozambique.’
Andrew Brooks (Geography, King’s College London)
‘The making of Unravel.’
Meghna Gupta (Independent filmmaker)
‘Oxfam Frip Ethique [...]

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Home Making (1)

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Being at home is often understood as a matter of identification. It happens when you recognize a place of dwelling as the place where you belong: a habitat, so to speak, where one feels comfortable.
I am writing a paper at the moment where I want to link the practice of home making to thge German [...]

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Has the Apocalypse happened?

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Facebook messages from my connections in England are referring to riots taking place in a number of inner city areas in England. British politicians and journalists have found it relatively easy to denounce these riots as the work of criminals. Very few reflections can be found that try and engage with any issues that might [...]

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Thoughts about Space and Culture (5)

Friday, August 5, 2011

Creating Concepts
Space and culture, then, is still all about the ‘and’; about the connections between practices of repetition and processes of objectification. What we aim to achieve, in the next 15 years or so, is to become a venue where social sciences can engage empirically with questions of the everyday. The key questions [...]

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Thoughts about Space and Culture (4)

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Culture

http://www.journal-online.co.uk/article/2693-new-cell-discovery-could-advance-understanding-of-cancer
Culture as reification is perhaps a relatively new theme for us. Reification is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it refers to the life of objects, in the straightforward empirical sense of ‘objects coming to life’ when they are engaged in action. However, at the same time, reification is often identified as a [...]

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