Re-orienting the Intimate: Religious Conversion and Geopolitics in the time of ‘Love Jihad’
Tea, coffee and cake available
Concurrent floods and droughts in the catchment of River Jing as reconstructed from historical archives
The first of the 2020 Asia Centre Seminars!
The Best of Both Worlds: Lagos private schools and return within the Nigerian diaspora
Joint seminar Sussex Africa Centre with SCMR and Geography
Politics of Exhaustion: struggles over (non-)movement in borderland Europe
Co-hosted by Geography, IR and SCMR
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