Contributing disciplines and areas include: applied philosophy, critical theory, cultural geography, cultural and social history, cultural studies, ethics, literature, material culture, political history, politics and political philosophy, psycho-social studies and social anthropology.
As we are committed to developing avowedly interdisciplinary understandings of the many facets of violence, our PhD students (currently 34, including 10 studentships awarded to the cluster by the University of Brighton in 2013/2014) work collaboratively both on their specific research topics and on broader issues in order to help further both the cluster's scholarly reputation and its public impact. These include conferences, workshops, symposia, public events and related activities.
The 10 funded studentships deal with these topics:
Justice, memory & experience in reconciliation after conflict at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
What constitutes violence? Victims, survivors & trauma at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
Memorial landscapes: Negotiating post-conflict spaces at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
War, policing and the state: New forms of violence? at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
The politics and ethics of drone bombing in historical context at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
Histories, memories and the sites and spaces of conflict: Tropes of haunting in negotiating violent past at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
Investigating the work being produced by queer visual activists in South Africa