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Centre for Research in Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics
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What we do

Staff in the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics (SECP) explore how environmental and social challenges are governed, represented and experienced within local, national, international and everyday cultural contexts.

Working within and across disciplines, our work examines how power relations and social differences - such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, age and ability - are spatially delineated and culturally and ideologically informed, affecting how we experience human and natural environments in diverse and inequitable ways. Our researchers work with academics and external partners in the UK, Austria, Germany, Afghanistan, South East Asia, Pakistan, Africa, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, USA and New Zealand.

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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.
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