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Recent SCG Research Projects

SCG research is at the forefront of international research in human geography, especially as regards the experience and representation of place, space and landscape. Major current research themes include colonial and postcolonial geographies; cultures of mobility and travel; diaspora culture and transnationality; cities, identities, and urban politics; geography's visual and material culture; consumer and commodity cultures; the politics of geographical knowledge; cultures of landscape and environment.

Recent SCG Research Projects

Re-branding the Levant: contested heritage and colonial modernities in Amman and Damascus (ESRC, 2008-11)
Claudio Minca and Jessica Jacobs

Fashioning Diaspora Space: Textiles, Pattern and Cultural Exchange Between Britain and South Asia (AHRC, 2007-2009)
Philip Crang, Felix Driver and Helen Scalway

Hidden histories of exploration: exhibiting geographical collections (AHRC, 2008-9)
Felix Driver and Lowri Jones

The cultures of enthusiasm: technology collecting and museums (ESRC, 2008-9)
Hilary Geoghegan

Geographies of identity and performance in Asian-American theatre (ESRC, 2008-9)
Amanda Rogers

Geographical perspectives on citizenship: highly  skilled Singaporean transmigrants in London (ESRC, 2007-8)
Elaine Ho

Landscapes of sight and blindness: access, touch and memory in the countryside (ESRC, 2007-8)
Hannah Macpherson

The walkable city: the dimensions of walking and overlapping walks in everyday life (ESRC, 2007-8)
Jennie Middleton

On-the-Go: mobilities, settlement and performance (AHRC, 2007)
Philip Crang, Tim Cresswell, Claudio Minca and Clive Gamble

Shopping routes: networks of fashion consumption in London 's West End (ESRC/AHRC, 2003-6)
David Gilbert & Bronwen Edwards

Atlantic slavery and geographical knowledge in the age of abolition (British Academy, 2005-6)
David Lambert

Café culture: creating convivial cities (ESRC, 2006)
Fernando Garcia

New Babel? Memory, pattern and the cosmopolitan city (AHRC, 2004-5)
Helen Scalway

Expatriate belongings: domesticity, intimacy and foreignness (ESRC, 2004-5)
Katie Walsh

Race, citizenship and overseas territories of the Falklands & Gibraltar, 1964-2002 (British Academy, 2003)
Klaus Dodds

Knowing the tropics: British visions of the tropical world, 1750-1850 (AHRB, 1999-2003)
Felix Driver & Luciana Martins

Visualising geography (AHRB, 2002)
Felix Driver, Catherine Nash, Kathy Prendergast & Ingrid Swenson

Atlas of emotions (AHRB, 2000-2003)
Kathy Prendergast, AHRB Fellow in the Creative Arts

Commodity culture and South Asian transnationality (ESRC, 1999-2002)
Philip Crang