Mr Cameron Byron

University Teacher Geography and Planning

Research

The geopolitics of death and burial

Investigating how the dead body and spaces of death are neither immobile or constituting of static forms of materiality, but are engaged in spatial tactics that negotiate, transform, and politicise spaces and practices of burial and disposal. This work looks towards the political ecologies of death and burial through environmental and 'alternative' methods of disposal, methods of memorialisation, and the embodied and affective geographies related to spaces of death.

Geographies of territory and terrain

How everyday forms of territoriality are practiced and negotiated across a range of geographical scales, and how territories and their materialities both human and non-human are encountered. Part of this work looks at how territory and terrain are practiced not just as material, tactile entities but as immaterial: through language, ideology, and narrative, for example - and how these practices shape everyday encounters with deathscapes.

Volumetric and subterranean geographies

How power is encountered and exerted across heights and depths in three-dimensional applications, and exploring geopolitical realities around ideas of containment, capacity, and depth through the lens of death and its materialities and infrastructures.