Research
Research Interests and Themes;
1) Domestic Geopolitics of Death and Burial:
Looking towards how the dead body and spaces of death are neither immobile or constituting of static forms of materiality, but are located through an earthly and fleshy geopoltiics that negotiate, transform, and politicise spaces and practices of burial and disposal.
2) Political Ecologies and Economies of Deathscapes:
Engaging the political ecologies of death and burial through green and and 'alternative' methods of disposal and methods of memorialisation, and the embodied-affective geographies that become intertwined with environmental and sustianable discourses and new economies of disposal.
3) 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.
4) Volumetric and Subterranean Geographies:
Investigating 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.
5) Non-representational Historical Geogrpahies and Archives:
Using methods to explore more material historical geographies, and the more non-representational practices of the past from drawing out embodied histories from the archive and its absences.