Space, Culture and Society (SCaS)
Introduction
SCaS News
'Mapping Manchester' public exhibition by Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge.
Martin Dodge's new edited book Geographic Visualization published.
SCas Members co-organised a double session on ‘touch’ at the RGS-IBG 2007
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The Space, Culture and Society Research Group is organised around theorisation and empirical analysis of the socio-political and cultural practices that produce and regulate space. SCaS develops a new agenda for geographical research at Manchester that complements University initiatives on critical urbanism (the University of Manchester Architectural Research Centre and the Global Urban Research Centre), consumption (Sustainable Consumption Initiative) and cultural change (ESRC-funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change).
We collaborate extensively with national and international colleagues, and our work has been supported by the British Academy, DFID, ESRC, European Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, and the National Research Foundation of Greece. A central strand in the group's research is analysis of urban assemblages and 'objects of urbanity' - infrastructure, architecture, surveillance systems - to understand the role these assemblages play in the construction and performance of contemporary identities and public relationships. Research includes a series of projects which adopt mapping as a critical interpretive lens to examine, for example, the production of geographical knowledge in open source mapping communities and cross-cultural evaluations of everyday mapping strategies.
| Name | Position | Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Dodge | Lecturer in Human Geography | Software and space. Cybergeography. Critical cartographies. |
| Mark Jayne | Lecturer in Human Geography | Cultural economy of cities. |
| Maria Kaika | Professor of Geography | Politics and culture of architectural technology and design and on urban political ecology |
| Chris Perkins | Senior Lecturer and Map Curator | Critical and ethnographic approaches to mapping and the changing nature of the map. |
| Fiona Smyth | Senior Teaching Fellow | Social constructionism, health, disease and drug use. |