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This is an opinion piece written by PERC member Professor Glenn Banks. It was originally published on the Massey University website. Okay, hands up if you’re a post-structuralist? Not sure what one of them looks like? Essentially post-structuralists argue that the way we see and know the world is socially created – and it is socially created through words, narratives …
PERC member Glenn Banks has written a piece for The Conversation with Regina Scheyvens responding to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s state-of-the-nation address – “Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism – we should be careful what he wishes for“. The authors argue: “We shouldn’t rush to judgement, but at least one prominent financial commentator has concluded the maths behind the goals …
PERC member Glenn Banks has published a piece in The Spinoff analysing Shane Jones’ “mining boosterism” and the debate around “critical minerals”. He argues: “The minister’s references to the need for New Zealand to “do our bit” in terms of the production of “critical minerals” is used as an additional justification for the expansion of the sector. The problem is …
PERC’s co-director Trisia Farrelly made a number of appearances in the media during 2022, discussing plastic pollution, the development of the global treaty for plastic pollution and more. Catch up on some of the discussions using the links below:
Emerging from the fully online 2017 conference ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Plastics‘ is the open-access book Plastic Legacies. Edited by PERC co-directors Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel with Professor Ian Shaw, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought …
PERC co-director Trisia Farrelly is a contributor to this new report published by the Pew Charitable Trust that uses a first-of-its-kind model of the global plastics system to “create a global analysis that evaluates various strategies to reduce ocean plastic flows and quantifies the associated economic, environmental, and social implications of each pathway”. Read the full report here.
Pacific Island countries and territories only contribute 13% of the “mismanaged plastic in the world’s oceans”, yet oceanic currents deposit much of this mismanaged plastic on Pacific shores. PERC co-director Trisia Farrelly has contributed to the authorship of the report Islands of Opportunity: Toward a Global Agreement on Plastic Pollution for Pacific Island Countries and Territories, which argues that existing …
Reflections from PERC members on the experience of hosting an online conference have been published over at the LSE Impact Blog: “While the sharing of online video is often discussed as a solution to questions of access, even as that format overcomes barriers, it introduces others. For instance, whereas access to video-making tools and software is widespread, it is far …
PERC is very pleased to announce that the book Plastic Legacies: Persistence, Pollution, and Politics has been accepted for open access publication with Athabasca University Press (AUP). The book is edited by PERC co-directors Trisia Farrelly and Sy Taffel with Professor Ian Shaw. Plastic Legacies’ genesis was the online conference ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic.’
