Social and Cultural Geographies
The Department takes a broad and interdisciplinary view of social and cultural geographies, with a focus on: consumption and material culture; the migration of people, objects and practices; geographies of landscape, the visual and built space; and continental philosophy, critical and postcolonial theory.
Research on consumption, material culture, migration, landscape, built space the visual and postcolonial and critical geographies is primarily qualitative in its methods, encompassing ethnography, life histories, biography and visual and textual analysis, aesthetic and perceptual practice, talk and text. It engages with key contemporary theoretical debates on materialities, objects and the social lives of things, as well as different ways of theorising the spatial, through diaspora, exile, transnationalism, practice and performance.
Our work has been funded by ESRC, AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy.
Details of individual's research activity can found by following the links below:
Professor Richard Phillips (group leader)
Dr Anya Anim-Addo