Enclosure & Dispossession in Secondhand Markets: A Conversation with Dr. Nicky Gregson

Brie Berry

Overview of series: As secondhand markets boom across the United States and the globe, it’s time to ask whether all of this growth is a good thing. Along with scholars and practitioners, we’ll critically explore the rise of online resale markets, the social value of secondhand economies, the seeming decline of stigma, and the potential rise of gentrification.

Host: Dr. Brie Berry is an Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability at Ursinus College. Her teaching, research, and engaged work focus on building just and equitable circular economies.

Episode 3: Enclosure & Dispossession in Secondhand Markets: A Conversation with Dr. Nicky Gregson

In this final episode of the series, Brie and Nicky discuss the long history of secondhand economies, and how enclosure and dispossession in reuse markets threaten the potential for more just and equitable circular futures.

Guest:
Dr. Nicky Gregson, Emerita Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University.

Dr. Nicky Gregson is an Emerita Professor of Geography at Durham University. Her main research interests are in the fields of “recycling” and waste economies and consumption as devaluation.