Description
Explores how 'pop-up culture' has entrenched precarity in London by normalizing and glamorizing crisis conditions in the aftermath of the 2008 crash.
About the Author
Ella Harris is currently a Leverhulme Fellow in the Geography department at Birkbeck, University of London. She has academic expertise in urban cultures of the recession/austerity era, as well as in interactive documentary as a research method. She has published widely on pop-up culture, housing precarity, interactive documentary and compensatory cultures.
Reviews
An important contribution to the discussion on how precarity is shifting from exception to norm, and how cities are transforming in a period after the financial crisis. * Ben Anderson, Durham University *
This is an important book offering a much needed critical engagement with the deployment of pop-up and other temporary strategies as a glamourous mask distracting us from the realities of the new normal of precarious lives and communities. * Susan Luckman, University of South Australia *
Book Information
ISBN 9781786999825
Author Ella Harris
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Zed Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 400g