Miriam Meissner
Biographic Data
| ID | 162249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Meissner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Meissner |
| SIGNATURE | MEISSNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5540-6575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: Extinction Rebellion’s Artivism
Scientific authorities increasingly caution that industrialised nations need to implement substantial transformations to meet environmental targets. To mobilize people for this transformation and press for policy reforms, socio-environmental movements combine strategies from art and activism. While existing studies conceptualise this phenomenon asartivism, empirical research on the design, function, and reception of social movements’ artivist pra…
Towards a cultural politics of degrowth: Prefiguration, Popularization and Pressure
This article discusses the role of culture in political ecology, with a focus on degrowth. Environmental scientists increasingly consider systemic societal changes such as degrowth as indispensable for the effective tackling of current climate and ecological crises, while governments and civil society remain skeptical of it. To tackle this challenge, this article argues for the strategic employment of cultural practices, values, narratives and id…
Against accumulation: Lifestyle Minimalism, De-Growth and the Present Post-Ecological Condition
The post-2008 financial crisis era has seen an upsurge in popular cultural narratives that implicitly challenge principles of economic productivity, consumption and growth by lamenting a so-called ‘world of too much,’ advocating ethics of minimalism, and renouncing everyday busyness. Narratives range from lifestyle advice on simplicity and de-cluttering private homes, to quests for the reduction of individual labor, communication, social contacts…
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
One of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and essential resources, the resulting crises illustrate the disastrous results of decisions driven by profi…
Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
Global Garbage
Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Excess, and Abandonment
Slow Art in the Creative City: Amsterdam, Street Photography, and Urban Renewal
Global cities have been studied predominantly in terms of speed and movement, acceleration and circulation. This article examines the relationship between globalization and cities in terms that run counter to such emphases, focusing instead on slowness as a condition in contemporary urban life. Drawing on Jamie Peck’s critique of the creativity syndrome in urban policy, we analyze a series of street photography projects in the city of Amsterdam i…
Questioning urban modernity
This critical introduction to the special issue examines the place and significance of urban modernity as a concept in contemporary urban studies. It draws on postcolonial theory to demonstrate that the relation between the city and modernity developed within the western tradition of urban thinking has produced a geographically and historically uneven conceptualisation of urban modernity. This conceptualisation not only involves dynamics of other…
Against accumulation: Lifestyle Minimalism, De-Growth and the Present Post-Ecological Condition
The post-2008 financial crisis era has seen an upsurge in popular cultural narratives that implicitly challenge principles of economic productivity, consumption and growth by lamenting a so-called ‘world of too much,’ advocating ethics of minimalism, and renouncing everyday busyness. Narratives range from lifestyle advice on simplicity and de-cluttering private homes, to quests for the reduction of individual labor, communication, social contacts…
Slow Art in the Creative City: Amsterdam, Street Photography, and Urban Renewal
Global cities have been studied predominantly in terms of speed and movement, acceleration and circulation. This article examines the relationship between globalization and cities in terms that run counter to such emphases, focusing instead on slowness as a condition in contemporary urban life. Drawing on Jamie Peck’s critique of the creativity syndrome in urban policy, we analyze a series of street photography projects in the city of Amsterdam i…
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: Extinction Rebellion’s Artivism
Scientific authorities increasingly caution that industrialised nations need to implement substantial transformations to meet environmental targets. To mobilize people for this transformation and press for policy reforms, socio-environmental movements combine strategies from art and activism. While existing studies conceptualise this phenomenon asartivism, empirical research on the design, function, and reception of social movements’ artivist pra…
Questioning urban modernity
This critical introduction to the special issue examines the place and significance of urban modernity as a concept in contemporary urban studies. It draws on postcolonial theory to demonstrate that the relation between the city and modernity developed within the western tradition of urban thinking has produced a geographically and historically uneven conceptualisation of urban modernity. This conceptualisation not only involves dynamics of other…
Towards a cultural politics of degrowth: Prefiguration, Popularization and Pressure
This article discusses the role of culture in political ecology, with a focus on degrowth. Environmental scientists increasingly consider systemic societal changes such as degrowth as indispensable for the effective tackling of current climate and ecological crises, while governments and civil society remain skeptical of it. To tackle this challenge, this article argues for the strategic employment of cultural practices, values, narratives and id…
Questioning urban modernity
This critical introduction to the special issue examines the place and significance of urban modernity as a concept in contemporary urban studies. It draws on postcolonial theory to demonstrate that the relation between the city and modernity developed within the western tradition of urban thinking has produced a geographically and historically uneven conceptualisation of urban modernity. This conceptualisation not only involves dynamics of other…
Slow Art in the Creative City: Amsterdam, Street Photography, and Urban Renewal
Global cities have been studied predominantly in terms of speed and movement, acceleration and circulation. This article examines the relationship between globalization and cities in terms that run counter to such emphases, focusing instead on slowness as a condition in contemporary urban life. Drawing on Jamie Peck’s critique of the creativity syndrome in urban policy, we analyze a series of street photography projects in the city of Amsterdam i…
Global Garbage
Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Excess, and Abandonment
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
One of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and essential resources, the resulting crises illustrate the disastrous results of decisions driven by profi…
Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
Against accumulation: Lifestyle Minimalism, De-Growth and the Present Post-Ecological Condition
The post-2008 financial crisis era has seen an upsurge in popular cultural narratives that implicitly challenge principles of economic productivity, consumption and growth by lamenting a so-called ‘world of too much,’ advocating ethics of minimalism, and renouncing everyday busyness. Narratives range from lifestyle advice on simplicity and de-cluttering private homes, to quests for the reduction of individual labor, communication, social contacts…
Towards a cultural politics of degrowth: Prefiguration, Popularization and Pressure
This article discusses the role of culture in political ecology, with a focus on degrowth. Environmental scientists increasingly consider systemic societal changes such as degrowth as indispensable for the effective tackling of current climate and ecological crises, while governments and civil society remain skeptical of it. To tackle this challenge, this article argues for the strategic employment of cultural practices, values, narratives and id…
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: Extinction Rebellion’s Artivism
Scientific authorities increasingly caution that industrialised nations need to implement substantial transformations to meet environmental targets. To mobilize people for this transformation and press for policy reforms, socio-environmental movements combine strategies from art and activism. While existing studies conceptualise this phenomenon asartivism, empirical research on the design, function, and reception of social movements’ artivist pra…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works)