A World Laid Waste? ─ Responding to the Social, Cultural and Political Consequences of Globalisation

Globalisation and neo-liberalism have generated rapid economic growth and technological progress, but they have also laid waste to established communities, cultures and the natural environment. One outcome has been populist politics, playing on fears of change, but this book offers counter-narratives of hope emerging from the wastelands of globalisation.

Francis Dodsworth is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Kingston University, London, where he has taught criminology and sociology since 2014. Previously, he worked for ten years in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University. During that time, he published in several fields ranging from the history of crime, policing and personal protection to the history of architecture and urban improvement and contemporary and historical religious cultures.

Antonia Walford is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Anthropology at University College London, and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen. Previously, she was a Research Associate in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, in the Social Life of Methods. Her work explores the effects of the exponential growth of digital data on social and cultural imaginaries and practices, focusing particularly on large-scale digitisation in the environmental sciences.