Research in this area examines how everyday sites and spaces of politics, both online and offline, are produced and contested, working at the interface of the state and civil society. At its core, our research explores how and why geography matters to the (re)production and contestation of dominant political and political-economic forms.
We take a politically engaged, ethnographical and multi-sited approaches to research, with a longstanding commitment to establishing collaborations with civil society and activists. This includes work on collective struggles for land and housing justice, and the in the US and UK (Elsa Noterman), geographies of peace, violence and citizenship in India, including a focus on the experiences of survivors of gender-based violence in accessing law and justice (Philippa Wiliams), democracy and grassroots participation in South America, including participatory decentralisation and populism in Buenos Aires (Sam Halvorsen).
Research has also explored critical histories of UK food charit, the intersection of British welfare and racial capitalism, the changing geographies of welfare in an age of austerity, and the politics of food banking (Jon May); the politics of everyday life among refugees and market vendors in urban Africa (William Monteith); the techno-politics of city building among a range of amateur and professional engineers in the global south (Niranjana); and (in)securities of transnational migration (Kavita Datta).