We seek to understand the many forms and multiple geographies of sociality and relatedness.
This involves considering the nature and implications of relationships between people, other forms of life, non-living entities, and places, spaces, landscape and nature. We investigate the production, reproduction and spatiality of social relations including kinship, friendship, mutuality, community and intimacy. This includes work on the politics of conventional and other practices, imaginaries and technologies of kinship; and on land, sociality and relatedness forged in contexts of resistance and refusal of extractive processes. We engage with transformations in the public life of cities through critical inquiries into the changing ways we eat, drink, get around, socialise, and spend time at work and at leisure, and examine these as mediated and digital relations and through their influence on pasts and the present in material and more-than-material ways.
Collaborative research at the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership between Queen Mary and Museum of the Home, spans home, city and migration, pandemic geographies of home, and religious faith and practice at home. This work advances critical understanding of the material and imaginative geographies of home and their intersections with power and identity across a range of different scales.
Collaborative and cross-disciplinary research at the City Centre focuses on urban lives, politics and interconnections. This work includes focuses on convivial cultures, rent and renting, public life of cities, urban livelihoods, urban politics and urban imaginaries and performances.