Research
The Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project
The Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project (AARP) was formed in October 2010 in partnership with the Moore Institute (National University of Ireland, Galway) and with funding from the University of Exeter and the British Academy. The aim of the project is to imagine, map, and develop the identities, cartographies and cultural ecologies of the Atlantic Archipelago. We ask how old ideas of the British Isles relate to identities emerging from a range of more complex configurations? AARP takes an interdisciplinary view on how Britain’s post-devolution state inflects the formation of post-split Welsh, Scottish and English identities in the context of Ireland’s own experience of partition and self-rule. Might new (and old) relations across traditional borders and boundaries tell us different stories about the cultures of a place that an over-arching nationalism does not do justice?
The Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project has been formed to build and develop such a framework through the organisation of conferences, lectures and summer schools for early stage researchers, and through the publication of articles and books.
For more information contact:
- Professor Nick Groom (English)
Politics of Place: A Journal for Postgraduates
Politics of Place is supported by ECLIPSE and an Editorial Board comprised of a range of academics from institutions across the country. The purpose of the journal is to provide space for postgraduate students to explore and share ideas concerning the relationship between culture and spatiality in works of literature. Through its engagement with issues of nationhood, community, class, marginality, and the self, the journal seeks to provide a forum for academic and contemporary political debate.
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From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future
This three-year project is funded by the European Social Fund and involves academics in Biosciences, Geography and English. In a uniquely multi-disciplinary investigation, we will compare community responses to a range of representations of climate change from popular cultural constructions in film and literature, to ecologically-informed computer simulations of familiar landscapes. Throughout, we aim to evaluate how the community at large responds to these diverse representations. We hope to explore how our imaginative responses to climate change are just as vital in addressing the problem of climate change as hard scientific fact.
For more information contact:
- Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra (English)
- Professor Catherine Leyshon (Geography)
- Dr. Rob Wilson (Biosciences)
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Nationalism
ECLIPSE’s flagship project, Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Nationalism, brings together scholars in English and Cornish Studies to explore how myth and mysticism contribute to the construction of a particular kind of ‘Celtic’ identity, using Cornwall as a case study for this exploration. It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
