Research themes
We are a vibrant, collaborative and collegial group of social, cultural, political, economic and historical geographers engaged in theoretically- and methodologically-rigorous, socially meaningful, and empirically grounded work.
Our cluster is shaped by five key areas of inquiry: Material Mobilities; Activism and Alternatives; Histories, Pasts and Memories; Governance and Discipline; and Knowledges, Identities and Everyday Practices. These themes reflect the diverse yet interconnected nature of our research expertise and our commitment to exploring how power, space and cultural change are, and always have been, so fundamental in shaping the world around us. We ask questions about these themes across multiple fields, including alternative economies, decolonial activisms, carceral spaces, health and embodiment, maritime spaces, rural environments, migration and movement.
Material mobilities
Materiality, even in the so-called information age, remains key to our understandings of the world.
Activism and alternatives
The ability to imagine and bring into being social, cultural and political alternatives to the present is one of the most powerful driving forces for change in the world.
Histories, memories and identities
Our geographical understanding of the current world is shaped by the histories and memories of the past.
Governance and discipline
Our social, cultural, economic and political worlds do not occur beyond of processes of power – particularly forms of governance and regimes of discipline.
Knowledges, identities and everyday practices
The ways in which we come to know and write the world are products of and reproduce particular power relations, and this in turn shapes understandings of different identities and everyday practices.
Qualitative research hub
We are home to the Qualitative Research Hub which supports and develops the research priorities of our cluster.