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Science and Engineering at The University of Edinburgh

School of GeoSciences

Institute of Geography

Detailed description of areas of research

Further details about particular areas of research within the Geographies of Relations and Identities research theme are available from this page.

  • Nations and nationalism (Joe Leibovitz, Jan Penrose, Charles Withers)

  • Subjectivity, difference, otherness and the making of geographies of inclusion and exclusion (Paul Bennett, Liz Bondi, Hazel Christie, Joe Leibovitz, Andrea Nightingale, Niamh Shortt)

  • Postcolonial geographies of settler and indigenous relations, including: 'exotic' tourism; global indigeneity; the politics of reconciliation; rodeo and 'race'; indigenous rights (David Howard, Jane Jacobs, Jan Penrose)

  • Political and cultural geographies of migration, multiculturalism and diasporic identity (David Howard, Jane Jacobs, Joe Leibovitz, Jan Penrose)

  • Subjective geographies of emotion, embodiment and well-being, including the domain of counselling and psychotherapy and human relations with 'nature' (Liz Bondi, Nina Morris, Andrea Nightingale)

  • Material relations with and experiences of the world, including: mediating technologies and non-places; technological ethnographies of the highrise; identity and things; and geographies of the everyday, including café and car cultures (Eric Laurier, Jane Jacobs, William Mackaness, Ignaz Strebel)

Further details about particular areas of research within the Geographies of Relations and Identities research theme are available from these pages.

  • Charting the Nation has provided a major national resource on maps of Scotland and their associated archives dating from 1590 to 1740.

  • Counselling and Society: a case study of voluntary sector counselling provision in Scotland
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