Thursday, 15th June
| 09.30-12.00 |
PhD/Postgraduate workshop
LUMS, LT16 Convenors: Hervé Corvellec, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata & Alison Stowell |
| 12.00-14.00 |
Registration and Lunch
LUMS Reception Area and Breakout LT2 & 3 |
| 13.45-14.25 |
Welcome to Lancaster University Management School, OTB3, PhD workshop input
Katy Mason, Alison Stowell, María José Zapata Campos
LUMS, LT01 |
| 14.25-14.55 |
Introductory keynote: Professor Josh Lepawsky (online) “Scale, magnitude, indeterminacy: some ways they matter for acting on ‘the bin’”
Convenor: Jutta Gutberlet
LUMS, LT01 |
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Fraction 1
LUMS, LT01 Support, Sam Cusworth |
Fraction 2
LUMS, LT14 Support, Victoria Frausin |
Fraction 3
LUMS, LT16 Support, Mark Ryan |
| 15.10-16.25 |
Theory (I): Temporality
Plastic temporalities and the materiality of connection on Christmas Island.
Saskia Abrahms-Kavuneko, Copenhagen University
From thin to thick relations with objects and materials: Constituting subjectivity through new foldings. Taru Lehtokunnas, Elina Närvänen, Tampere University
Tracing household waste: A practice theoretical approach.
Ulla-Maija Sutinen, Tampere University
Convenor: Mathieu Durand |
Governance (I): Circular Economy 1
Comparative governance analysis of approaches to the circular economy in Ireland and Wales.
Megan O’Byrne, Cardiff University
Circular Circuits: Ways to make electronics production and consumption more sustainable in Europe.
Magdolna Molnár, Brandenburg Technical University.
Thinking with organic waste in place: Diverse economies, design and periurban futures in Sydney, Australia.
Stephen Healy & Abby Mellick Lopes, Western Sydney
Convenor: Lucy Wishart |
Behaviour/Practice (I): Households
Boundary mechanisms: responsibilities, fractures, and opportunities in multi-unit waste development.
Bhavan Middha & Ralph Horne, RMIT University
“Don’t blame us!’ Centring the role of the household in plastic recycling policy.
Helen Holmes & Torik Holmes, Manchester University
A taste for waste: Situating unsustainable consumption within practices & social structures.
Alex Skandalis et al, Lancaster University
Convenor: Patrik Zapata |
| 16.25-17.00 |
Coffee/tea break and Waste safari instructions
Convenor: John Xavier, María José Zapata Campos, Marta Ferri
LUMS Breakout LT2 & 3 |
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Fraction 1
LUMS, LT01 Support, Sam Cusworth |
Fraction 2
LUMS, LT14 Support, Victoria Frausin |
Fraction 3
LUMS, LT16 Support, Mark Ryan |
| 17.15-18.30 |
Theory (II): More than humans/multispecies post huma
Knowing-with plastics: How to deal with inorganic waste materialities in more-than-human ethnography.
Alma Onali, Tampere University
The place of waste in the material factory of the Fab City. Biowastes and urban craftmanship in the Poblenou District, Barcelona.
Solene Tixadou & Cyria Emelianoff, Le Mans University
Wasting Trajectories and Ecologies in the Venetian Aquapelago.
Francesca Guarnotta & Giovanni Lorenzi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Convenor: Alex Skandalis |
Governance (II): Circular Economy 2
Leaks at the sewage seams
Linus Ekman Burgman, Linköpings University
The future of plastics and circular economy contexts
Marta Ferri, Lancaster University
Waste into wellbeing: The value of food in transition.
Lenka Brunclikova & Duncan Pollard, Lancaster University
Convenor: Sarah Surak |
Behaviour/Practice (II): Industries
Since when does waste matter? Decision making in the real estate sector.
Louise Huba, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Ine wouters, Linoel Billet, Michael Ghyoot, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Understanding latent tensions in a circular fashion business model.
Mark Ryan, Lancaster University
Plastic packaging waste reduction in food supply chains: The role of supply chain stakeholders.
Ghadafi Razak et al, Lancaster University
Convenor: María José Zapata Campos |
| 18.40-21.00 |
Dinner (pop-up) with the Larder – Kay Johnson MBE
Furness Quad |
Friday, 16th June
| 09.00-09.35 |
Keynote Speaker: Blanca Callén Moreu “Learning from repair communities: what (electronic) waste can teach design”
Convenor: Alison Stowell
Room – LUMS, LT01 |
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Fraction 1
LUMS, LT01 Support, Sam Cusworth |
Fraction 2
LUMS, LT14 Support, Victoria Frausin |
Fraction 3
LUMS, LT16 Support, Mark Ryan |
Fraction 4
LUMS, LT03 Support, Alison Stowell |
| 09.45-11.00 |
Theory (III): In circulation
Waste in circulation.
Stefan Laser, Sven Bergmann, Nicolas Schlitz, Yusif Idies, University Bochum
Beyond micro & macro: a multi-scalar approach to studying waste.
Stylianos Zavos & Olli Pyyhtinen, Tampere University
Re-opening the circle: an interdisciplinary detour into circularity.
Andrea Bortolotti & Dario Minervini, Polytechnic of Milano & University Fedreico II Napoli
Convenor: Nicolas Schlitz & Yusif Idies |
Governance (III): Policies 1
Garbage-free cities as the new normal in India. (online)
Devika Ganesan & Prathibha Ganesan, Administrative Staff College
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for youth engagement towards zero waste transition in Brazil.
Carolina Monteiro de Carvalho & Jutta Gutberlet, University Sae Paulo & University of Victoria
Governance practices of the grassroots initiatives involved in solid waste management: Does collaboration with local government matter?
Goodluck Charles Urassa
University of Dar es Salaam Business School
Convenor Patrik Zapata |
Behaviour/Practice (III): Labour
Guns, gangs, and metal: Transformations across Beirut’s infrastructures.
Elizabeth Saleh, AUB
Mapping waste labour in domestic spaces: Interrogating the politics of waste work in urban Kolkata, India. (online)
Rageshree Bhattacharyya, South Asian Delhi
Unvalued and Unseen: Highlighting forgotten histories and contemporary realities of night soil workers.
Sally Cawood & Pratik Mishra, Lancaster University
Convenor María José Zapata Campos |
Management (I): Reuse
Reusing façade components as a collective endeavour: identifying collaboration structures in pioneering projects.
Ruben Van Vooren & Esther Geboes, VRIJE University of Brussels
Soft toys are hard work: reuse and recycling through UK charity shops.
Violet Broadhead, Bristol University
Labour of Pre-Loved: Promoting Reuse in a Linear Retail System.
Lucy Wishart et al, St Andrews
Convenor: Clare Mumford |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/tea break
LUMS, Breakout LT2 & 3 |
| 11.30-12.45 |
Fraction 1
LUMS, LT01 Support, Sam Cusworth |
Fraction 2
LUMS, LT14 Support, Victoria Frausin |
Fraction 4
LUMS, LT03 Supoort, Mark Ryan |
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Theory (IV): Critique
Waste as a posthumanist critique.
Olli Pyyhtinen, Alma Onali, Ulla-Maija Sutinen, Niina Uusitalo, Stylianos Zavos,Tampere University
Waste as a resource? A critique of a heroic efficacy.
Hervé Corvellec, Lund University
Wasting generously. From a circular to a digestive logic.Lis
a Doeland, Radbound University
Convenor: Alison Stowell |
Governance (IV): Policies 2
Managing waste during the COVID crisis: tensions between hygienic and environmental objectives.
Mathieu Durand, Rebecca Oates & Helene Beraud, University of France & University Gustave Eiffel.
Consumer’s perspectives and disposition patterns of e-Waste: A study with reference to the legislative regime in India*.
Dolly Singh, Banaras Hindu University
Financing solid waste management in Tanzania: Benchmarking to international best practices
Mesia ILomo & Goodluck Charles, University of Dar es Salaam Business School.
Convenor: Blanca Callen |
Management (II): Recycling 1
Polyphony or cacophony? Exploring multiple stakeholder values and situated dialogues within the process of polymer recycling.
Clare Mumford et al, Lancaster University.
Fly tipping as a question of responsibility in highly regulated waste management systems.
Julia Perczel & Helen Holme, University Manchester
Recyclers and recycled: path and challenges across the continents.
Francisco Suarez, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
Convenor: Lucy Wishart |
| 12.45-13.45 |
Lunch
LUMS, Breakout LT2 & 3 |
| 13.45-14.15 |
Keynote speaker: Patrik Zapata “Local governments and waste – an elephantine problem, assumptions, and collaborative dreams”
Convenor: Hervé Corvellec (Room: LUMS, LT01) |
| 14.15-15.00 |
Panel 1. Ocean Plastics: Practice, research, and policy
Panellists: John Xavier, Lauren Munro-Bennett, Alexandra Harrington, Crispin Halsall
Convenor: Marta Ferri
Room – LUMS, LT01 |
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Fraction 1
LUMS, LT01 Support, Sam Cusworth |
Fraction 2
LUMS, LT14 Support, Victoria Frausin |
Fraction 4
LUMS, LT03 Support, Mark Ryan |
Fraction 5
LUMS, LT16 Support, Alison Stowell |
| 15.15-16.30 |
Theory (V): Ethics and Environmental Justice
Waste as a disruption to unitary understandings of environmental justice (online).
Wang Kun, Guangzhou Institute of Geography
Interrogating the ‘ideological position’ of Clean India Mission
Avinay Yadav, University of London
Grassroots greening: Local Composting as fertile ground for waste diversion while challenging the environmental injustice.
Sarah Surak, Salisbury University
Convenor: Lenka Brunclikova |
Governance (V): Stakeholder Dynamics
Waste as commons, towards a sustainable and just society within planetary boundaries.
Patrik Zapata & María José Zapata Campos, University of Gothenburg
‘Every small action helps towards the greater cause’: Online communities scaling up community-led citizen science in addressing litter challenges in Scotland.
Noleen Chikowore, St Andrews University
Network of disaster waste management stakeholders: a case of the Roya Valley (South France) after storm Alex.
Gaïa Marchesini & Helene Beraud, University Gustave Eiffel
Convenor: Ghadafi Razak |
Management (II): Recycling 2
Branded waste: Teijin and the closed-loop recycling of polyester.
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University
Evolution of material salvage in demolition practices: A preliminary study on shifting trends in twentieth-century Brussels – Lara Reyniers, Stephanie Van de Voorde & Ine Wouters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Strategies for persistence under the absence of the rule of law: Learning from local recycling practices in the context of Lebanon.
Rita Nasr, Henley Business School
Convenor: Divya Joyti |
Epistemologies (I): Framing & Methods 1
What do landfills teach us?
Daniel Sosna, Institute of Ethnology – Czech Academy of Sciences
Knowing Styrofoam: Exploring the epistemology of a hyperobject.
Niina Uusitalo, Tampere University
Waste Society: Living with material overflows.
Teemu Loikkanen, University of Lapland
Convenor: Hervé Corvellec |
| 16.30-17.00 |
Coffee/tea break
LUMS Breakout LT2 & 3 |
| 17.00-18.00 |
Coach departs for Lancaster city centre and waste safari walk (please do not be late)
Convenor: Marta Ferri, John Xavier, María José Zapata Campos |
| 18.30-21.30 |
Dinner
Kings Arms, Lancaster city centre – (coach returns to Campus at 21:30 hrs) |
Saturday, 17th June
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| 09.00-09.35 |
Keynote Speaker – Trisia Farrelly (online) “Ending plastic pollution and waste colonialism? Reflections on global plastics treaty negotiation” Convenor: Dr Alison Stowell LUMS, LT01 |
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Fraction 2
LUMS, LT01 Support, Victoria Frausin |
Fraction 5
LUMS, LT16 Support, Mark Ryan |
| 09.45-11.00 |
Governance (VI): Working conditions
Political (in)visibilities of waste infrastructure: An understanding through breakdowns and contestations.
Advita Rajendra & Ankur Sarin, Indian Institute of Management
“Treated like trash…?” – how management scholarship calls out the marginalisation of people in factories in the practice of codes of conduct but fails to address it in its own research.
Divya Jyoti, Lancaster University
Public discontent: Mobilizing community resources against ExxonMobil’s oil and gas waste disposal at Haags Bosch sanitary landfill in Guyana. (online)
Kesha Fevrier, Queens University
Convenor: Marta Ferri |
Epistemologies (II): Framing & Methods 2
Value in architecture: Designing with waste.
Simone Ferracina, Edinburgh University
Away from downstream waste management approaches: The heuristics of the metabolic perspective.(online)
Jeremie Cave & Yann-Philippe Sustainability Sciences, GET/IRD & Anthropology, LISST/CNRS
Sea PET 2150 Scenario bricolage: Participatory plastic waste eco-aesthetics and urban graphic objects.
Katarina Dimitrijevic & Robert Harland, Loughborough University
Convenor: Patrik Zapata |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee/tea break
LUMS, Breakout LT2 & 3 |
| 11.30-12.05 |
Keynote speaker: Manisha Anantharaman (online) “Recycling Class -The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability”
Convenor: Lucy Wishart
LUMS, LT01 |
| 12.05-12.50 |
Panel 2. Waste work: Policy, research, and practice
Panellists: Patrick O’Hare, Michael Rendon, María José Zapata Campos
Convenor: Lucy Wishart
LUMS, LT01 |
| 12.50-13.35 |
Fraction themes feedback, Waste Safari winners, closing of conference, next steps
Mngt School LT01 |
| 13.35-14.15 |
Lunch
Mngt School Breakout 2 & 3 |
| 14.45-17.45 |
Field Trip: RELIC |
| 18.30 |
Informal dinner* Greaves Park Hotel |
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Sunday 18 June
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Day/Afternoon social for remaining OTBers* |
*not included in conference fee |
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