Everyday Insecurities
Exploring how seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life shape – and are shaped by – local, regional and global insecurities. The group is based in the Global Insecurities Centre.
Our group
We are a group of academic staff and postgraduate researchers based in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), interested in how daily life is entangled with political, economic, environmental, and social structures.
Our work is grounded in empirical inquiry, while speaking to broader theoretical debates around insecurity, violence, resistance and social transformation.
Our aims / motives
- To understand insecurity through exploring the different material and cultural domains of daily life
- To explore how people navigate and contest daily insecurities in creative and collective ways
- To contribute empirically grounded insights to wider debates around insecurity, social/political institutions, and social and economic justice
Our research areas/themes
- Food and eating
- Gender, work, and labour
- Informality and everyday economies
- Social reproduction and care
- Mobility, migration, and displacement
- Community building and collective life
- Wayward and rebellious lives
- Leisure and cultural practice
- Everyday responses to climate and environmental change