Spatial Politics: world-making and collective life
This theme explores how space and politics are co-constituted through everyday practices, struggles and contestations. We examine the entanglements of space and power, attending to how political life unfolds across bodies, environments and institutional landscapes.
Key foci include:
- Migration, borders and citizenship – mapping mobility, enclosure and belonging, shaped by but often transgressing established geopolitical entities
- Geographies of labour, collective action and being-together – exploring the geographies of labour, work, political contestation and alternative political socialities
- Populisms, authoritarianism and (anti-)fascisms – analysing spatial strategies of power, control and persuasion and how they are contested
- Infrastructures and the politics of governance – investigating how ‘systemic’ assemblages organise everyday life
- Decolonial and Black geographies – centring anti-colonial/anti-settler resistance, memory and epistemologies from below
- Queer and feminist epistemologies – collaborating across gendered cities, spaces and structures, trans geographies and questions of equity
Our work draws on diverse political imaginaries and modes of political practice. We are committed to critical, historically situated and theoretically innovative approaches that rework how spatial politics may be understood and engaged today.