Researchers in the Department of Languages and Cultures explore how ways of life, artistic expression and critique relate to social, cultural and environmental change in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.
We analyse the impact of: coloniality; climate change; gender and international conflict on languages and cultures while developing research methods which contribute to issues in social justice.
We analyse the obstacles that stand in the way of social transformation and engage cross-cultural understanding and critical pedagogies that work towards egalitarian global relationships and social, racial and environmental justice.
We also develop an understanding of how imaginings and imaginaries of justice movements are expressed in writing, film, theatre, performance, memory, and on-the-ground organising.
We trace how such imaginations become part of social transformation and, in our work with projects and communities, how they can be nurtured.
Along with several other departments across the university, Languages and Cultures is a key organiser and co-founder of the Lancaster Environment Lecture with Litfest, which recently invited Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot as speakers.
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- Wetland Times (British Academy)
- Anthropocene (A)synchronicities (British Academy)
- Building Critical Hope at the Autonomous Center for the Memory of 'Our América': Integrity, Solidarity, Care (British Academy)