Within the cluster we are interested in how objects connect us to different places; how embodied experiences change as we move and travel; how the fabric of places is transformed through mobility; and how different physical infrastructures enable oceans, land and borders to be navigated and negotiated. Recent research which contributes to this theme includes:
- The geo-physical materiality of seas and oceans, the governance of shipping logistics, and the material spaces of ships (Peters, Davies, Turner)
- Elemental and chemical materialities and their mobilities (Peters)
- The materiality and mobility of political activity - from the circulation of campaigning literature to the creation of alternative forms of currency (Davies, North)
- Migrants' mobilities and transnational lives - neoliberal labour schemes and how migrant farm workers' stay connected to home (Gahman); migration journeys and practices of sending things 'back' (Burrell); informal mobilities of asylum seekers in the European Union (Isakjee)
- Using domestic, neighbourhood and international mobilities to understand how a sense of place is negotiated (Whittaker, Burrell)
- The materiality of our bodies in mobile spaces - in relation to embodied experiences of flying whilst fat (Evans) and urban walking practices (Rose)
- The materiality of prison architecture and the (im)mobilities of carceral space (Turner)
- Everyday material objects and personal belongings - questions of home, place-making and identity (Riley, Burrell, Rose, Whittaker); thinking about 'curiosities' and wellbeing (Evans); the connections gun culture and use have with masculinity in the American Heartland (Gahman)
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