Throwaway Society? Writing a new history of consumption in the early twenty-first century

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• Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)
• Thursday 28 November 2013, 17:00-18:30
• Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

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That we live in a “throwaway society” is a common complaint. This paper offers a historical investigation of waste, asking whether people in modern societies have really become more wasteful. It follows the changing quality as well as quantity of waste. And it places wasting alongside other kinds of disposal and end use, including storage, collecting, repair and re-use. Drawing on Frank Trentmann’s forthcoming book, the paper will also discuss the challenges (and opportunities) of writing about consumption across time and space.

This talk is part of the Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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