Everyday Insecurities Research Group

We explore how mundane aspects of everyday life are shaped by and constitute socio-economic and political structures; and how individuals negotiate and challenge their daily insecurities through their actions.

Our group

We are a group of scholars at different stages of our academic careers coming from politics, sociology, international studies and other related disciplines. We are united by our interest in exploring everyday lives and mundane experiences of people in all their varieties, in order to understand broader social and political issues. For example, we study how we eat and what that tells us about food provisioning; how we access justice, and what that means for marginalised populations; how integration works in everyday life, both in Bristol and beyond. Because of our commitment to bottom-up approaches, we often work with community partners, but also feed our research finding to national and international bodies.

Our aims / motives

We believe that starting from everyday empirical practices enables us to critically engage with broader analytical frames, theorisations and abstract accounts of ‘systemic logics’, while revealing sophisticated regimes of practice that are often defined by heterogeneities.