Bradley L Garrett: Cultural Geographies of Dread

An exploration of dread, cities, private spaces and transgression

Since the Cold War,feelings of dread have increased through constant assertions of anticipated disaster, leading to a reconfiguration of cities through the privatisation of public space, the persistent surveillance of these spaces and through increased spatial inequality as a result of both.

Bradley L Garrett is a cultural geographer who investigates secret places through visual ethnographic methodologies. He writes a regular column for Guardian Cities and his research has been featured on media outlets worldwide. He is the author of Explore Everything: Place Hacking the City, Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital, London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City’s Heights and Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within. He was the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Early Career Alumni award from James Cook University, Australia and from 2017 will be serving as a full-time Research Fellow at the University of Sydney.

Sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library