What we do

Our work challenges and subverts power relations through theoretical, creative and practical insights into their spatial, cultural and political dimensions, to provide alternative modes of living and being that are more environmentally ethical and socially just.

Providing theoretical innovation and practical application, our research focuses upon a range of ecological and social issues, including:

• Environmental and climate change - exploring notions of subjectivity and well-being, media communication, public and policy engagement, activism and protest, historical and archaeological legacies, global environmental politics, creative approaches to climate engagement, women’s land rights, food sovereignty and security, environmental risks, water quality, conservation and management, political ecology.
• Human migration – exploring women and migration, mobility and mental health, transnational migration, climate induced migration and displacement, media coverage, young men’s experiences, diasporic identities and communities. 
• Sustainability and tourism – including sustainable e-transport, ethical consumption, cruise ships, lesbian and gay travel, visual culture of tourism.
• Power and inequality in/through specific spaces and environments – race and the seaside, class and work, sport and race/racism, morality in global finance institutions, popular culture and ethnicity, state and political violence, science and technology, popular culture and heritage, performative spaces.
• New social and ecological visions –including commoning practices, youth generated climate futures and speculative fictions, aesthetics and the performance of community, Anthropocene imaginings and livings.