Sara Hampton
Email: r.hampton.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Location: Room 520, East Quadrangle, Main Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4579-5866
Research title: Infrastructures of solidarity: the spatial politics of the left in 1980s Scotland
Research Summary
Thesis title: Infrastructures of solidarity: the spatial politics of the left in 1970s and 1980s Britain
This research examines different left-wing spaces in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s, such as radical and LGBT+ bookshops, women's centres, unemployed workers' centres, and social clubs. I consider the role of these spaces in building solidarity within and across various political movements across the left in this period. These sites were crucial within broader networks of solidarity and care, and I contend that this spatial focus therefore illuminates existing histories of political struggle over the 70s and 80s. I also foreground the use of oral history testimony in this work, proposing that this is a uniquely rich and productive methodology for uncovering the emotionality and spatiality of these historical narratives.
Supervisors
External supervisors
Diarmaid Kelliher
David Featherstone
Lazaros Karaliotas
Grants
University of Glasgow Scholarship / Lord Kelvin LKAS Fund (2020 - 2023)
Conference
2022:
- RGS-IBG 2022 (Newcastle, England):
- "'Revolution on the rates': Practising resistance and care against precarity in 1980s Scottish unemployed workers' centres", Beyond precarity: new critical geographies of marginalized lives and subjectivities [Paper]
- "A Pregnant Pause? Waiting, Reproduction and Silences in the Everyday Endurance of Austerity - Professor Sarah Marie Hall, GeoForum Annual Lecture [Invited discussant]
2021:
- RGS-IBG 2021 (London, England)
- "'A better life we thought, well I, thought we were moving to': Space, aspiration and gender in 1970s East Kilbride", New and Emerging in Historical Geography [Online paper]
- Infrastructures of solidarity: spatialities of political organising [Session co-organiser]
2020:
- "'It didn’t look like they’d be going away any time soon”: A review of emotion, shared authority and space in researching oral historical geographies of solidarity, Human geography research group presentation [Online paper]
2019
- Scottish Oral History Centre Annual Workshop (Glasgow, Scotland)
- "An oral history of female friendship in East Kilbride: Unlikely sources of trauma and mitgating this through inter-subjectivity" [Paper]
Teaching
Geography 1:
- Tutorial Leader (2021 - present)
- Lab Leader (2020 - 2022)
Geography 2:
- Qualitative Methods Lab Leader (2021 - present)
- Tutorial Leader (2021 - 22)
Additional Information
UCU Glasgow GTA Rep (2021 - present)
