Our research focuses on the workings of governance and the acts of disciplining in a range of examples, including the ways in which particular social groups or minorities are subject to political and societal governance and disciplinary actions related to their mobilities, behaviours and identities. Within this theme we explore how techniques for governing individuals, communities and spaces shifts, underneath evolving political environments. Examples include:
- Governing UK and EU internal/external borders and mobility regimes – refugee experiences, schemes and policies (Isakjee, Burrell); bureaucracies governing Polish/EU nationals in UK and Scandinavia (Burrell)
- Governance and securitisation of Muslim identities and communities in the UK (Isakjee, Najib), in France (Najib); border imperialism, biopower, and the regulation of migrant workers in Canada and the US (Gahman)
- Governance of the body and mind via biomedical and psychological practice and classifications (Smith)
- Indigenous governance, autonomy, and practices of democracy (Gahman)
- Urban governance and practices of bureaucracy in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Mumbai, India (Dasgupta)
- Police brutality, state violence, stigma, and urban space in the Caribbean (Gahman), in France (Najib)
- The governance of young people and their subjectification through formal and informal education (Cheung Judge)
- The biopolitics of fat in relation to anti-obesity policy (Evans)
- Medical, health and social care institutions in relation to chronic illness and disability (Evans and Rose)
- Spatial injustice, limits to access and equality in relation to public space and rights of way in the UK, with particular emphasis on class, gender and Disability (Rose), in France (Najib)
- Low Carbon governance (North)
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