Social, cultural, and economic transformations

Projects in this theme

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

Entangled Futures Network

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

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.

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

Global governance: Critical understanding of crisis and displacement

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

A graffiti wall in Germany encouraging climate action, and tying it to social and economic transformation, by emphasising many small changes.

Social Science Approaches to 'Transformation'

A study of what 'transformation' means to different fields of research, and how to make the process itself fair.

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

Consortium for 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.