The Asset Strippers and the Asset Hiders: On Machines, Memory and Mutability
University of Brighton, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories
Dwelling in liminalities: Life in the uninhabitable, undeserving and uncanny
Abstract The paper explores the politics of life at the margins of Bucharest, Romania, and the emergence of homing infrastructures within...
Colonial forms, decolonial transformations:Lessons on decoloniality from secondary schools in urban Bolivia
Abstract The vast majority of recent decolonial scholarship that circulates in westernized academia focuses either on critiques of coloniality, or...
De-exceptionalising the Domestic: methodological de-nationalism and domestic labour
Joint Event with the Ethnicity, Race and Diverse Societies Research Network Abstract The doing of domestic work reflects, reproduces and entrenches...
Realizing critical theory in practice: two recent collaborations
Realizing critical theory in practice: two recent collaborations.
Conflict and Conservation on Ashdown Forest
It has been said that 'suffering leaves no mark on the countryside'. Ashdown Forest's appearance as a tranquil, protected habitat belies its history.
Hostile environments: A new politics of global space
Events of the last decade have underlined the limitations of formal migration controls.
Cartographic knowledge in the webs of empire: mapping settler colonies in mid 19th-century Britain
The knowledge networks that underpinned the making of Arrowsmith maps and their diverse contexts of use in Britain and in the colonies.
'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
Can Veganism Save the Planet?
Join our panel of speakers as they discuss sustainable living and whether adopting a particular diet is really enough to secure our planet’s future.
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.