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John Scanlan

Research Fellow, In Certain Places, School of Art, Design and Fashion

School of Arts and Media

Time, Place and Culture, 'Waste' (Culture, History), Cultural Memory, Popular Music (Artistic aspects), Media Technology

John Scanlan is a cultural historian, analyst and practitioner whose work is concerned with: (i) Social and Cultural Transformations; (ii) Temporal Experience in Modern Society; (iii) Creative Practice and Cultural Change. He is the author of eight books and has published articles in a number of academic journals, including History of the Human Sciences, Photographies, Places, Time & Society, Techniques & Culture, Space and Culture, as well as in edited volumes such as The Acoustic City and Recycler l’Urbain. His work has appeared in Italian, French, Croatian and Arabic translations. He has spoken about his work on national and international media, including BBC Four TV, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Waves’, ABC National Radio in Australia and the BBC World Service. As an academic, he taugmore...

He holds degrees in Philosophy (MA Hons, Glasgow, 1994) and Social Science Research (MPhil, Glasgow, 1998) and obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow.

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  1. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2016) Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine. Reaktion Books, London. ISBN 9781780237541
  2. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2014) The Language of Waste. In: Recycler L’Urbain: Pour une écologie des milieux habités. vuesDensemble Essais . Metis Presses, Geneva, pp. 105-120. ISBN 978-2-940406-94-4
  3. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2016) 'Surf Life, ou l’excès à l’ère du numérique' [Surf Life: Excess in the Age of Information]. Techniques & Culture, 65-66 . pp. 494-501.
  4. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2015) Easy Riders, Rolling Stones: On the Road in America, from Delta Blues to 70s Rock. Reaktion Books, London. ISBN 9781780235295
  5. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2014) Of Longitude, Latitude and Zenith: Van Halen, Los Angeles and the Aesthetics of “Backyardism”’. In: The Acoustic City. Jovis, Berlin, pp. 68-73. ISBN 978-3-86859-271-9
  6. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2019) West Cumbria: On the Edge. In Certain Places, Preston. ISBN 978-0-99304-985-9
  7. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2019) On Time and Waste. In: ‘Slow Burn: Dirt, Radiation, and Power in Fukushima’, 31 January 2019, University of Oxford, School of Geography. (Unpublished)
  8. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 and Quick, Charles orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-5247-2489 (2017) Places Change: Tactics for Cultural-led Place-making. In: Places Change, 12 December 2017, Policy Network, Westminster, London. (Unpublished)
  9. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2019) Interview with John Scanlan. [Audio]
  10. Scanlan, John orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2951-7823 (2017) ‘Images, Ideas, Perceptions and Place Values’. In: Sustainable Tourism and the Public Value of Nature’, 29 September 2017, UCLan Westlakes. (Unpublished)