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The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism and Carbon Footprint - The Second Edition - Couverture souple

Harrison, Ellie

 
9781910022795: The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism and Carbon Footprint - The Second Edition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1910022799 ISBN 13 : 9781910022795
Editeur : Luath Press Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live?

Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016.

Named after the term used to describe Glasgow’s mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial ‘durational performance’ centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.

I’d already lived in Glasgow over seven years when the ‘chips hit the fan’ in January 2016. It was frustrating how the media took everything out of context. The Glasgow Effect was an epic undertaking resulting from years of research – a project which has shaped my thinking, action and life course ever since. This book is that hidden story. ELLIE HARRISON

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À propos de l'auteur

Ellie Harrison was born in the London borough of Ealing in 1979. She moved north to study Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 1998. In 2008 she continued northwards to do a Masters at Glasgow School of Art and has been living in Glasgow ever since. She has described herself as an artist and activist, and as ‘a political refugee escaped from the Tory strongholds of Southern England’. In 2009 she founded Bring Back British Rail, the national campaign for the public ownership of our railways. As a result of thinking globally and acting locally during The Glasgow Effect in 2016, she is now involved in several local projects and campaigns aimed at making Glasgow a more equal, sustainable and connected city, including the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaign, Car-free Glasgow and the Glasgow Community Energy co-operative

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Éditeur
Luath Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1910022799
ISBN 13 
9781910022795
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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