Böcker av James Merron

Nature conservation is often framed as an ecological problem in need of repair. With both material and discursive dimensions, repairing things involves repairing people's orientation to those things. As such, nature conservation can be understood as a negotiation between different orientations to ecological problems.This publication seeks to understand the negotiation through trust, the analysis of which situates repair in a particular setting. Empirically, the book is structured around an encounter that unfolded over the course of a single day between white commercial farmers and experts belonging to various government departments, universities and an NGO working in a South African nature reserve. By moving through the situation se-quence-by-sequence the author captures the relationship between trust and repair vis-à-vis the material forces that structured the situation, and the discursive methods that actors used to repair a degraded ecology.Originally from Makhanda (South Africa), James Merron grew up in Botswana and the United States. After his Master's degree, he lectured at Stellenbosch University in 2012. By 2023, he earned a PhD and then post-doc position at the University of Basel. He is associated with the Centre for African Studies Basel (Switzerland) and his work is based on exploring the relationship between science, technology and society.

The importance of hospitality spaces within urban regeneration processes has remained largely overlooked in current urban discourse; and this is in spite of the dramatic physical transformation of cities over the past fifteen years - alongside recorded increases of hospitality spaces which are central. This study examines key themes underpinning UK urban regeneration policies over the past decade ¿ urbanisation, gentrification, post-modern consumption, place promotion, and sanitisation; and considers practical implications derived from the presence and provision of hospitality spaces alongside these themes - in terms of their capacity to contribute to the establishment of urban spatial quarters of differentiation and of standardisation specifically. Two urban quarters of Manchester [UK] provide the cases for this ethnographic research study, whose presence of contrasting typologies of hospitality spaces could be said to have respectively exemplified these outcomes. The study concludes that hospitality spaces have played crucially important roles within processes of urban regeneration, and are increasingly central to the creation of urban quarters