Check out our new piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the petrochemical historical bloc, the UN Global Plastics Treaty, and the battle for plastic hegemony. This was a real labour of love and so glad to see this finally out!
Jack Taggart
new open access paper with colleagues @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @jptilsted.bsky.social in @ripejournal.bsky.social
it offers a neo-gramscian perspective on the political economy of plastics / plastic pollution, exploring attempts by dominant actors to sustain 'plastic hegemony'
Plastics are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary consumer capitalism. Despite scientific evidence and public awareness of the mounting health and environmental impacts of plastics pollution, globa...
