The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism and Carbon Footprint

by Ellie Harrison

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I will not travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike, for a whole calendar year. - Ellie Harrison, January 2016

This simple proposition - to attempt to live a 'low-carbon lifestyle of the future' - put forward by an English artist living in post-industrial Glasgow cut to the heart of the unequal world we have created. A world in which some live transient and disconnected existences within a global 'knowledge economy' racking up huge carbon footprints as they chase work around the world, whilst others, trapped in a cycle of poverty...

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  • ISBN10 1912147963
  • ISBN13 9781912147960
  • Publish Date 4 November 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Luath Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 224
  • Language English