I am a postgraduate student researcher from South London interested in spatial sociology, particularly post-industrial spatialities, visual cultures and hauntology. At undergraduate level at the University of Glasgow, I applied a unique hauntological framework to the politics and experience of housing demolition in 21st century Glasgow, for which I won the Nicole Bourque Award for Sociology 2024 and adapted for a piece in the Scottish Left Review (Issue 142: Oct-Nov 2024). At postgraduate level, I am exploring the ‘visual cultures’ of postindustrial ruination in Port Glasgow, interrogating how urban exploration and ruin photography contribute to forms of classed and de-historicised voyeurism.
Project statement:
MSc: ‘Boats Against the Current’: Exploring the Visual Cultures of Postindustrial Ruination in Port Glasgow’ / PhD: A Comparison of Working-Class Cultural Responses to Deindustrialisation in the Post-Industrial Spatialities of Glasgow and Leipzig.
This research will seek to compare working-class cultural responses to deindustrialisation, within the post-industrial spatialities of Glasgow and Leipzig. This will take an interdisciplinary and multi-media approach, focusing principally on ‘visual cultures’ of deindustrialisation through film, art, photography and architecture. The research will centre on an international comparison that focuses on the different sociopolitical and cultural regimes in Scotland and the former East Germany, to gain a cross-ideological understanding of how differing histories of deindustrialisation have impacted the cultural response to these processes in their aftermath.
