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  • FoRE/HOPE: What can everyday resistance and hope teach us about social change? In the face of increasing authoritarianism and social exclusion, there is an urgent need to understand how people deal with oppressive structures and experiences of violence and exclusion in everyday life. Resistance and hope are central to this, as both are practises and aspirations that influence each other.
  • Image & Peace: Frank Möller and Rasmus Bellmer have initiated a new project called Image & Peace which will publish selected works of visual art, both solicited and unsolicited, on the subject of peace.
  • The Pad Project: The adult incontinence pad is a mundane commodity that is used, worn, and disposed of by hundreds of millions of people everyday across the world. Yet, very little is known about its circulation in the global economy – which is what the Pad Project seeks to understand.
  • GotLost.Space: This website belongs to Nadine Hassouneh, currently a Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Leeds. The website serves as an archive to avoid loss of content in virtual space (thus gotlost.space) due to conclusion of projects, expiry of web hostings, new jobs, no space on CV, or anything else (imagined or unimagined).
  • Debordering Peace: This project addresses focuses on the ongoing situation in the Mexican city of Tijuana. The Mexico-U.S. border is the place where different expressions of violence and peace take place having an impact on all the identities involved in the area. The aim of this project is to study the entanglement between expressions of conflict and epistemic violence with expressions of everyday peace taking place at the border. Specifically, the objective is to analyze everyday expressions of conflict and peace embedded in discourses, identities and representations about the others. The everyday expressions are examined by collating three research tracks combining an ethnographic perspective with discursive and visual approaches. The research tracks complement and triangulate data (interviews, media reports & images), with different sources of information. Each track provides a specific angle and context to the everyday entanglements of violence and peace at the limit. The project has a conceptual frame based on the field of Peace and Conflict Research. The methods considered will be ethnographic participant observations, photo elicitation, open interviews, content analysis, and visual discursive analysis. The contribution of this project is to shed light and uncover the entanglement of violence and peace happening in the actual context of Tijuana and show to the ways expressions of peace can be permanently fostered.
  • The Good Mess: The GoodMess is a purpose-driven changemaking consultancy that catalyses just and ethical sustainability transitions in social and health care. With strong foundations in multi-disciplinary academic research, we specialise in themes such as environmental burden of care technologies, international health workforce migration, planetary political economies of health and social care, ethics of old age care, incontinence, stigma and gendered global health in peace and conflict. With versatile skills in qualitative research, we tailor our toolbox to meet the client’s needs: What you need depends on the “good mess” that needs to be understood and disentangled.