Cultural and Historical Geography

Race and Empire

Research in this area has been at the forefront of interrogating the geographies of colonialism and Empire as well as confronting their ongoing legacies. In recent years, this work has fed into broader debates concerned with decolonising our institutions, our curricula and our public spaces.

Our scholarship has placed these debates in a global and historical context by exploring the emergence, for example, of black internationalist and pan-African politics, as well as researching how colonial legacies are shaping contemporary migration governance.

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Recent publications

  • Campbell, S. 2023. An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums, Atlantic Studies, 20(1), 33-57.
  • Legg, S. 2023. Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London. Cambridge University Press.
  • Legg, S. 2023. Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, early view.
  • Martin, P.R. 2023. The ‘deer-men’ and the ‘bowhead-men’: The colonial co-optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, early view.
  • Hodder, J. 2021. The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919-1929. History Workshop Journal, 91(1), 113-131.
  • Davies, T., Isakjee, A., Mayblin, L. and Turner, J., 2021. Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait. Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp.1-21.
 

 

Cultural and Historical Geography

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