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Dr Dave Ashby

Dr Dave Ashby

LSE Fellow

LSE100

Email
d.ashby@lse.ac.uk
Office Hours
Tuesdays at 13:30-14:30, KSW 3.05 (Visit Student Hub to book a slot)
orcid
0000-0003-0282-8146
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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Comedy, Critical Geopolitics, Qualitative Research design, Sustainability

About me

With a broad Human Geography background, I specialise in Political Ecology, Critical Geopolitics and Citizenship.

I was a research associate at the University of Leicester working on projects about urban environmentalism and queer pandemic citizenships (see publications). I have taught at the University of Leicester (2015-2020) and Loughborough University (2021) and became an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018. My PhD thesis - OK Boomer: Geography, Comedy and the Emerging Political Expression of Generation Left in the UK - merged previous theories of comedy with assemblage thinking and critical geopolitics to explore how the recomposition of class along the axis of age is given political expression in the UK. Since my doctorate, my research has continued to develop understandings of the (geo)political significance of age. My current research projects explore how young people develop climate politics during a period of multiple unfolding crises; balancing, trading and negotiating forms of hope(lessness) to secure liveable lives and possible futures.

Expertise Details

Assemblage thinking; Citizenship; Comedy; Critical geopolitics; Everyday geopolitical lives; Generations; Liveable lives; Political ecology; Political geography; Qualitative research design; Sexualities; Social change; Youth geographies

Publications

Ashby, D. et al. (2022) Sexual and Intimate Citizenship in a Time of Pandemic. LIAS (7). Available: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/lias/article/view/4079

Ashby, D. et al. (2022) The Epistemologies of ‘Lockdown’: closets, vulnerability, and citizenship. LIAS (7). Available: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/lias/article/view/4078

 

Conferences and Public Events
Apartheid, Afrophobia and the ANC: Borderings in South African Cartoons, Borderless worlds – for Whom?, University of Oulu (Finland), 2016 

Innovating Political Comedy Research , RGS Midterm Conference, Newcastle University, 2016 

Navigating Challenges, Barriers and Failures in the Field, RGS-IGB International Conference, Cardiff University, 2018 
Blog Post: https://polgrg.wordpress.com/postgrad/ 

Gender and Sexuality in the Pandemic, Departmental Seminar (Geography and Environment), Loughborough University, 2021

Liveability, Futurity and the Dominant Hope of Leicestershire’s Youth, RGS-IGB International Conference, Imperial College London, 2023 (forthcoming)

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