Legacies of the Past or Historical Transitions

Projects in this theme

A placard at a climate protest reading 'One World', demanding social and economic justice alongside environmental justice.

Colonial Natures

Exploring the links between historic colonialism and the modern climate crisis.

A young girl in India at the front of a student rally for social justice.

Entangled Futures

Analysing the big issues in 21st-century politics through decolonial, anti-racist, and feminist perspectives.

A displaced family in a refugee camp, consisting of a man, three women, and four children.

Global governance: critical understanding of crises and displacement

Analysis of the issues facing refugees around the world, and how we can support them.

An historical illustration, depicting Medieval peasants ploughing a field with cattle.

Exploring and Defining the Possibilities of a Global History of the pre-modern Peasantry

A research network aiming to expand our understanding of the peasantry through history.
The national flag of India, hoisted at the top of a flagpole, being blown by a strong breeze.

Indian Democracy and the New Global Order

An exploration of India's increasing prominence on the political and economic stage, and the implications for India and the world.

Ethnographic objects from the Pacific in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,, including two feasting bowls and a woven shark. These are the source of object biographies, as part of material culture study.

Material Culture Forum

Exploring what objects can tell us about history and world cultures.

Reproduction

A study of how reproduction influences subjects from politics to environmentalism.

An archaeological dig site, where a housing complex is being excavated.

Researching Legacies of the Past

Examining historical legacies in different fields of study, and their implications today.

Three children in Africa, playing in the sea, as a symbol of hope for the developing world's future.

The Consortium of the Global South

A multidisciplinary project exploring developing countries' approach to issues such as the environment, wealth inequality, and conflict resolution. 

An image of a Black Lives Matter protest taking place by a fountain. People are holding signs reading 'Black Lives Matter!', 'Time to Change the World' and 'Wir stehen auf geggen rassismus'.

Thinking Us: developing intersectional antiracist agendas in research

Providing an anti-racist framework for research in other fields.