University of Southampton

Tweet Last Friday, we organised a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference at the University of Exeter around the theme of Geographies of Politics and Anti-Politics. The call for papers coincided with a Geoforum debate between Nick Clarke, Jane Wills and David Featherstone about the discipline of Geography and the research problem of anti-politics. […]

Tweet Gerry Stoker and Will Jennings will be presenting findings from their recent research on the relationship between urban dynamic and political engagement at two conferences this month. The first paper is titled ‘The Bifurcation of Politics: The Impact of Cosmopolitan versus Shrinking Urban Dynamics’ and will be presented at the European Urban Research Association […]

Tweet Will Jennings was discussing anti-politics and political geography on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. Click here for the link. Will speaks about the impact of urban dynamics on political engagement in Britain 50 minutes into the show. The relevant paper on this research will follow shortly.

Tweet Many politicians believe that their world is one of high accountability; after all they put themselves up for election and can find themselves unceremoniously dumped by voters. Also on a daily basis their actions and words are the focus of attention in traditional and new media. So why do 21st century citizens in contemporary […]

Tweet This Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of the 1945 General Election. The election is widely understood as a significant turning point in modern British history. Labour won their first ever majority government and introduced a wide-ranging programme of social and economic reform, including the inception of NHS exactly three years later, and establishing the […]

Tweet This Wednesday, Will Jennings will be speaking about the long-term decline of political trust and engagement in Britain at a Policy Network event that addresses the impact of populism upon British democracy. Click here for further information.

Tweet Nick Clarke has written a short piece about the geographies of politics and anti-politics. It was written as a ‘critical review’ commissioned by Geoforum for the General Election on the discipline of Geography and the research problem of anti-politics. It is accompanied by two ‘debate’ pieces from Jane Wills and David Featherstone. Click here […]

Tweet A highlights video of the Rebellion or Re-engagement PSA Symposium held at the University of Nottingham in April, where Gerry Stoker presented a paper entitled: How do citizens think about politics and how to reform the political system. Click here for slides.

Tweet Our first working paper is available to download. This working paper was presented by Nick Clarke at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Warsaw in April 2015. The paper outlines the research project and reports some initial findings, with a particular focus on qualitative data from 1945 found in the Mass Observation archive.

Tweet Click Here for a new blog post about the relationship between anti-politics and depoliticisation written for the Political Studies Association.