Our research

From 2014 to 2017 CRESC will be organised into six research groups. All these groups will continue to publish outputs, hold events, find new partnerships and address new questions within their general fields of interest and expertise.

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Infrastructures of Social Change

We explore the infrastructural dynamics and material dimensions of social relations and address the fluidity and elasticity of social life.
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Reframing the Nation

Focusing on the changing meanings of the nation in contemporary societies.
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Remaking Capitalism

Our distinctive approach combines follow the money research with political and cultural analysis.
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Social Life of Methods

Exploring how methods act not simply as technical toolkits, but also as vital players in creating and changing the social world.
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Trajectories of Participation and Inequality

Analysing social involvement and cultural participation within a long-term historical context.
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Urban Experiments

Exploring city processes of cultural, material and mobile change.