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Economy & Culture
The Economy & Culture research cluster reflects the Department of Geography's commitment to generating dynamic and productive relations between the fields of cultural and economic geography.
The cluster provides a forum that brings together existing Departmental research from across these fields to create innovative research trajectories in human geography. Researchers in the cluster explore how the cultural and economic intersect and come to be represented across different registers, including practices of valuation, understandings of work and inequality, theories of development, techniques of visualisation, approaches to heritage and memorialisation, and the manufacturing of subjectivities.
Economy & Culture is marked, in particular, by a shared interest in how the cultural and economic intersect and shape each other: from the routines and experiences of everyday life, to markets and materialities, and the developmental imaginaries that enable and sustain projects of future-making at a range of scales. Researchers share an interest in opening-up economic practices to cultural explanation, and in places and spaces within and beyond markets and across the Global North and South.
For further details, please contact Dr Léonie Newhouse
PGR Co-convenor: Helen James
Cluster Members
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Louise Amoore | Professor | Geopolitics; technology; geographies of machine learning; ethico-politics; borders, biometrics and bodies; political geography; philosophy of science |
| Dr Penelope Anthias | Assistant Professor | Extractivism; territory; land rights; indigeneity; governmentality; decolonisation; Bolivia (Chaco) |
| Dr Andrew Baldwin | Associate Professor | Geographies of race and nature, political geography, migration/displacement, climate change, Anthropocene, political economy of adaptation |
| Dr Sage Brice | Assistant Professor (Research) | Gender and identity, multi-species landscapes, wetlands, Israel-Palestine, creative methods, art-geography, queer ecologies |
| Professor Gavin Bridge | Professor | extractive economies; energy transition; natural resources; geographies of energy; political ecologies of resource production and investment; political economy of fossil fuels; global production networks |
| Professor Mike Crang | Professor | Cultural geography; memory; identity; heritage; tourism; waste and the borders of commodification |
| Dr Sarah Knuth | Associate Professor | Political and cultural economy; political ecology; green economy; energy and climate justice; urban built environments and infrastructure; financial geographies; technology and industrial policy; fiscal politics and the state; value and devaluation |
| Dr Karen Lai | Associate Professor | Finance, financial centres, fintech, global cities, political economy, cultural economy, knowledge, producer services, advanced business services, Asia |
| Professor Paul Langley | Professor | Money, finance, financialization, cultural economy, FinTech, digital finance, green finance, social finance |
| Dr Jessica Lehman | Assistant Professor | Science and technology studies; environmental politics; oceans; resource geographies; feminist and queer theory; postcolonial and decolonial geographies; political ecology; climate change |
| Dr Lauren Martin | Associate Professor | Political geography, carceral geographies, political economies of borders and migration control, datafication and digitalisation of mobility controls. |
| Professor Cheryl McEwan | Professor | Postcolonial and decolonial theory; cultural economy; sustainable consumption; political ecology; Anthropocene; South Africa; sub-Saharan Africa; art as social practice |
| Assistant Professor | Displacement, refugees, and migration; humanitarianism and development; conflict, post-conflict and peace building; land; urban theory from the South; Sub-Saharan Africa (East Africa, the Horn, the Sahel) | |
| Professor Marcus Power | Professor | Development; geopolitics; energy; infrastructure; visual geographies and methodologies; China-Africa; decolonisation; subaltern geographies; decolonial and postcolonial theory |
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Research Clusters
Our research clusters are focused on ideas. They act as centres of gravity for collective research activity and provide the foundational means through which we generate the diversity, vibrancy and innovation that underpins our research.
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Impacting the World
Our research culture is set up to generate research that is both intellectually innovative and impactful, addressing the key global challenges of our time and providing wider public and societal benefit.
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Much of our research takes final form in high-impact articles or books. But a considerable amount of our activity takes place in other mediums.
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Our Research Community
Our academic researchers and research staff are completing a wide range of research that is Impacting the World, including work that is relevant to the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, and publishing literature that is changing our understanding of the world.
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