Professor Nicky Gregson

Refereed Journals in print

  • Crewe, L., Gregson, N. and Metcalfe, A. (2009). The screen and the drum: on form, function, fit and failure in contemporary home consumption. Design and Culture, 1(3), 307-328
    doi:10.2752/174967809X12556950208907
  • Gregson, N. (2009). Material, literary narrative and cultural economy: Primo Levi and the industrial short story. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2(3), 285-300.
    doi:10.1080/17530350903345520
  • Gregson, N., Metcalfe, A. and Crewe, L. (2009). Practices of Object Maintenance and Repair: how consumers attend to consumer objects within the home. Journal of Consumer Culture, 9(2), 248-272.
    doi:10.1177/1469540509104376
  • Bulkeley, H. and Gregson, N. (2009). Crossing the threshold: municipal waste policy and household waste generation. Environment and Planning A, 41(4), 929-945.
    doi:10.1068/a40261
  • Gregson, N. (2009). Challenging Assumptions: Recycling as policy and assemblage. Geography, 94(1), 61-65.
  • Gregson, N., Metcalfe, A., Crewe, L. (2007). Identity, mobility and the throwaway society. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
    doi:10.1068/d418t
  • Gregson, N., Metcalfe, A., Crewe, L. (2007). Moving things along: the conduits and practices of divestment in consumption. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(2), 187-200.
    doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00253.x
  • Gregson, N. and Beale, V. (2004). Wardrobe matter: the sorting, displacement and circulation of women's clothing. Geoforum, 35(6), 689-700.
    doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.03.014
  • Crewe, L., Gregson, N. and Brooks, K. (2003). The discursivites of difference: retro retailers and the ambiguities of 'the alternative'. Journal of Consumer Culture, 3(1), 61-82.
    doi:10.1177/1469540503003001931
  • Gregson, N., Simonsen, K. and Vaiou, D. (2003). Writing (across) Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 10(1), 5-22.
    doi:10.1177/0969776403010001521
  • Gregson, N., Crewe, L. and Brooks, K. (2002). Shopping, space and practice. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 20(5), 597-617.
    doi:10.1068/d270t
  • Gregson, N., Crewe, L. and Brooks, K. (2002). Discourse, displacement and retail practice: some pointers from the charity retail project. Environment and Planning A, 34(9), 1661-1683.
    doi:10.1068/a3415
  • Gregson, N., Simonsen, K. and Vaiou, D. (2001). Whose economy for whose culture? Moving beyond oppositional talk in European debate about economy and culture. Antipode, 33, 616-646.
    doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00203 Translated into Greek: reprinted in Geographies, 2002-3 (4).
  • Gregson, N., Brooks, K. and Crewe, L. (2001). Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s revivalism through the reappropriation of 70s clothing. Fashion Theory, 5(1), 3-28.
  • Gregson, N. and Rose, G. (2000). Taking Butler elsewhere: performativities, spatialities and subjectivities. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18(4), 433-452.
    doi:10.1068/d232
  • Gregson, N., Simonsen, K. and Vaiou, D. (1999). The meaning of work: some arguments for the importance of culture within formulations of work in Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 6(3), 197-214.
    doi:197-214.10.1177/096977649900600302
  • Crewe, L. and Gregson, N. (1998). Tales of the unexpected: exploring alternative spaces of contemporary consumption. Transactions Institute of British Geographers, 23(2) 39-53.
    doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.1998.00039.x
  • Gregson, N. and Crewe, L. (1998). Dusting down Second Hand Rose: gendered identities and the world of second hand goods in the space of the car boot sale. Gender, Place & Culture, 5(1), 77-100.
    doi:10.1080/09663699825331
    (Reprinted in Handbook of Cultural Geography, eds Thrift, N. and Whatmore, S.).
  • Gregson, N. and Crewe, L. (1997). Performance and possession: rethinking the act of purchase in the space of the car boot sale. Journal of Material Culture, 2(2), 241-263.
    doi:10.1177/135918359700200205
  • Gregson, N. and Crewe, L. (1997). Excluded spaces of regulation: car boot sales as an enterprise culture out of control? Environment & Planning A, 29(10), 1717-1737.
    doi:10.1068/a291717
  • Gregson, N. and Crewe, L. (1997). The bargain, the knowledge and the spectacle: making sense of consumption in the space of the car boot sale. Environment & Planning D: Society & Space, 15(1), 87-112.
     doi:10.1068/d150087
  • Gregson, N. and Lowe, M. (1995). 'Homemaking': on the spatiality of daily social reproduction in middle class Britain. Transactions Institute of British Geographers, 20(2), 224-335.
    doi:10.2307/622433
  • Gregson, N. (1995). And now it's all consumption? Progress in Human Geography, 19, 135-141.
  • Gregson, N. and Crewe, L. (1994). Beyond the high street and the mall: car boot fairs and the new geographies of consumption in the 1990s. Area, 26, 261-2.
  • Gregson, N. and Lowe, M. (1994). Waged domestic labour and the renegotiation of the domestic division of labour within dual career households. Sociology, 28(1), 55-78.
    doi:10.1177/0038038594028001005
  • Gregson, N. and Lowe, M. (1993). Re-negotiating the domestic division of labour? A study of dual career households in North east and South East Britain. Sociological Review, 41(3), 475-505.
  • Robinson, F. and Gregson, N. (1992). 'The Underclass': a class apart? Critical Social Policy, 12(34), 38-51.
    doi:10.1177/026101839201203403
  • Lowe, M. and Gregson, N. (1989). Nannies, cooks, cleaners, au pairs ... new issues for feminist geography. Area, 21, 414-417.
  • Gregson, N. (1989). Tawney revisited: custom and the emergence of capitalist class relations, Cumbria, 1600-1830. Economic History Review, 42(1), 18-42.
    doi:10.2307/2597044
  • Gregson, N. (1987). Structuration theory: some thoughts on the possibilities for empirical research. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 5(1), 73-91.
     doi:10.1068/d050073
  • Foord, J. and Gregson, N. (1986). Patriarchy: towards a reconceptualisation. Antipode, 18(2), 186-211.
    doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.1986.tb00362.x
  • Gregson, N. (1986). On duality and dualism: the case of structuration and time geography. Progress in Human Geography, 10, 184-205.
  • Gregson, N. (1985). The multiple estate model: some critical questions. Journal of Historical Geography, 11(4), 339-351.
     doi:10.1016/S0305-7488(85)80095-5
Chapters in books
  • Gregson, N. (2006). Praksis akademier (Academies of practice). In: Bucieck, K., Baerenholdt, J., Haldrup, M. and Ploger, J. (eds) Rumlig Praksis. Roskilde Roskilde Universiteitsforlag.
  • Gregson, N. (2005). Agency/Structure. In: Cloke, P. and Johnston, R. (eds.) Geography's Binaries. London: Sage.
  • Crewe, L., Gregson, N. and Brooks, K. (2003). The spaces of creative work: retro retailers and the production of the alternative. In: Leyshon, A., Lee, R.and Williams, C. (eds) Alternative Economic Geographies. London: Sage.
  • Gregson, N. (2003). Reclaiming 'the social' in social and cultural geography. In: Anderson, K., Domosh, M., Pile, S. and Thrift, N. (eds.) The Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage.
  • Gregson, N., Crewe, L. and Brooks K (2000). Narratives of consumption and the body in the space of the charity/shop. In: Jackson, P. et al (eds) Commercial Cultures: economies, practices, spaces. Oxford: Berg.
  • Gregson, N. (2000). 'Family', work and consumption. In: Sheppard, E. and Barnes, T. (eds.) Companion to Economic Geography. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Gregson, N., Rose, G., Laurie, N. and Cream, J. (1997). Introduction. In: Feminist Geographies. London, Longman.
  • Gregson, N. and Rose, G. (1997). Contested and negotiated histories of feminist geography. In: Feminist Geographies. London, Longman.
  • Gregson, N., Kothari, U., Cream, J., Dwyer, C., Holloway, S., Mander, A. and Rose, G. (1997). Gender in feminist geography. In: Feminist Geographies. London, Longman.
  • Laurie, N., Smith, F., Bowlby, S., Foord, J., Monk, S., Radcliffe, S., Rowlands, J., Townsend, J. and Gregson, N. (1997) "Feminist geographies of space and place". In: Feminist Geographies. London, Longman.
  • Rose, G., Gregson, N., Cream, J. and Laurie, N. (1997). Conclusion. In: Feminist Geographies. London, Longman.
  • Gregson, N. and Lowe, M. (1995). 'Too much work?' Class, gender and the reconstitution of middle class domestic labour. In: Savage, M.and Butler, T. (eds) Social Change and the Middle Classes. London, UCL Press.
  • Gregson, N. (1989). On the (ir)relevance of structuration theory for empirical research. In: Held, D. and Thompson, J. (eds.) Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and his critics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Books

  • Gregson, N. (2007). Living with Things: ridding, accommodation, dwelling. Oxford, Sean Kingston Publishing ISBN 0-9545572-8-X
  • Gregson, N. and Crewe, L. (2003). Second-hand cultures. Oxford, Berg ISBN 1859736726
  • Gregson, N. and Lowe, M. (1994). Servicing the Middle Classes. London, Routledge ISBN 9780415085311
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