Hostile environments: A new politics of global space
Events of the last decade have underlined the limitations of formal migration controls.
'Sons of the soil’: land, mud and the modern national subject
Chair: Prof Divya P Tolia-Kelly Abstract: A relationship with the soil invokes an essence of a place.
British life assurance and the imagined geographies of climate and race, 1840-1930
Abstract British life assurance companies insured thousands of travellers and emigrants between 1840 and 1930.
“Solar is a blessing for women... For men it doesn’t do as much as it does for women”
Energy access and gender (in)equality in off-grid homes in Bangladesh
Provisional Migration and Settler Colonialism in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Francis Collins (University of Waikato): Provisional Migration and Settler Colonialism in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ruins of industrial culture: Absence-presence, affect and industrial ruination in the Miners' Welfare
This talk begins with an overview of my research into the affective and temporal dynamics of belonging among working-class mining families in Notts.
Singularity. A manifesto for incomparable geographies
This paper is a methodological response to the challenge of decolonizing geographical knowledge
At the Makeshift Camp: Interrogating violence and resistance along EU border zones
Chair: Michael Collyer All welcome (Coffee/ Tea and Cake is provided) Abstract Scholars interrogating European border policy over the last...
Decolonizing the University: WORKSHOP
Chair: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly Undergrads, Postgrads, Postdocs and ALL Staff are Invited to join us! Abstract Calls for decolonizing the...
Beyond the Border: Securing the Line between Canada and the US
Chair: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly ALL WELCOME (coffee/ tea and cake is provided). Abstract The Canada-US border has been invoked in the Brexit debates...
What happens if we start from Nigeria? Towards more diverse histories of geography
Chair: Simon Rycroft ALL WELCOME (Coffee/ Tea and Cake is provided) Abstract This paper demonstrates the value of writing disciplinary histories...
Public Library Geographies: pasts, presents, futures
Abstract: This paper argues for the timely consideration of public library geographies.
Resource Nationalism in Bangladesh: Valuing National Natures and Politicising Geology
I examine faultlines that emerged among a group of geologists and petroleum engineers in the wake of a series of blowouts in a gas field in Dhaka.
‘Food-work city’: Oral histories of and for changing places
Could changing the way we think about migration lead to a more hopeful, less divisive debate and improved wages and conditions for low-paid workers?
Feeling Brexit: From Nationalist Atmospheres of Shame to Performing Ideas of the People
In this article, I address Brexit through the question of what Brexit felt like in the year following the vote on 23 June 2016.