Our research draws on a number of methodological techniques (from oral history to the use of archives) to understand how space and place shapes pasts and presents within the context of both individual lifecourses and larger scale political change. Research projects and publications which contribute to this theme include:
- Geographies of age, youth, the lifecourse and ageing (Cheung Judge, Evans, Riley, Smith)
- The importance of lifecourse and memories to individuals’ identities and how they shape activisms (Riley, North, Smith)
- Race, health and the environment (Smith); Indigenous worldviews and notions of wellbeing, ancestral memory, African-Caribbean cultural survival (Gahman, Smith)
- The historical ties contemporary anticolonial and anti-capitalist liberation movements have and maintain with their predecessors (Gahman, Mallick)
- Ambivalent nostalgias and embodied experiences of urban regeneration in Manchester, UK (Rose)
- Remembering wartime, socialist and post-socialist Poland (Burrell, North)
- The realities, histories, and political agency of environmental defenders, grassroots activists, urban workers and labour organisers, and rural landworkers in the Global South (Gahman, Mallick)
- Research on the histories and continued effects of colonialism upon societies in the Global North and South (Davies, Gahman, Smith, Mallick, Dasgupta)
- Colonial urbanism and spatial transformation of South Asian cities (Dasgupta)
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