Research Themes
Just Geographies
Our research builds upon human geography’s long-standing concern with the production and consequences of inequality and uneven development. This agenda is pursued through theoretically-informed and politically-engaged research. We have analytical concerns with housing, health and well-being, environment, class and gender. Our work has developed novel qualitative and quantitative approaches to identifying and understanding social and environmental justice concerns. We prioritise transformative and participatory approaches to understanding the spread of injustice at a variety of spatial scales, guided by a critical imagination.
Materialising Geographies
Our scholarship examines the relationship between materiality, technology and geography. Through this scholarship we contribute to understanding: the production, circulation and reception of geographical knowledges; the intellectual and political purposes served by geography’s material forms; and the role of artefacts and technologies in everyday geographies. We conduct this research in both an historical and contemporary frame.
Nature's Geographies
Our research focuses on interactions between nature and society, environment and culture. Multiple perspectives are brought to bear on experiences of environments and the kinds of issues and conflicts that play out in diverse natural and semi-natural places. We are interested in how environments are valued, and the ways in which people’s embodied, creative and sensory engagements both shape and are shaped by natural spaces. Our work also engages with the politics of environments and the reflexive ways in which political economies, societies and cultures are produced by and co-productive of natures and environments.
Lived Geographies
Our research is concerned with how social, economic, political and cultural processes emerge from, and shape people’s daily lives at home, work and in public. These concerns have led us to become involved with studies of living conditions in houses, high-rises and suburban neighbourhoods, making a living, as manifest in work and occupations, as well as everyday mobilities. We also attend to individual and collective identity formation, through scholarship on national, transnational and postcolonial identity politics. These foci are pursued through inquiries that are variously multi-scalar, interactional and experiential.
This article was published on Nov 16, 2011