NUCLEAR SOCIETIES
NUCLEAR SOCIETIES
Dr Dawney is a social theorist and cultural geographer whose research focuses on community experience and social and economic change.
She was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2025 to write a monograph based on her research on the relationship between deindustrialisation and community in a former nuclear town in Lithuania.
In 2024 she worked with photographers Laurie Griffiths and Jonty Tacon to make a short film, Decommissioning a Dream, on community responses to nuclear decommissioning. Previously, she has worked with the Lithuania National Drama Theater on the acclaimed documentary theatre production Green Meadow and with Griffiths and Tacon on the touring photographic exhibition Babochka.
She has published on nuclear temporalities, the concept of deep time and nuclear waste storage. She is currently developing a larger project on infrastructure communities and leads a project in partnership with the Nuclear Waste Services Research Support Office, entitled Temporalities of Nuclear Infrastructures: Histories and Futures of Energy and Community, which encompasses two doctoral studentships.
Select publications:
Dawney, L., 2021. The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(3), pp. 405-422.
Dawney, L., 2021. “Dramatising deindustrialisation” in W. Price, M. Rhodes II, A. Walker (eds.) Geographies of Post-Industrial Memory, Place, and Heritage pp 123-138 London: Routledge.
Dawney, L., 2020. “Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45(1): pp. 33-49.
Dawney, L, Harris O, and Sorensen, T., 2017. “Future Worlds: Anticipatory archaeology and the late human legacy” Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 4(1 pp107-129.
Dawney, L., 2017. “On finding hope beyond progress” in Dawney et al. (eds.) Problems of Hope Lewes: ARN Press.
Dawney, L. and Brigstocke, J., 2016. “Into Eternity” in Brigstocke, J and Noorani, T. (eds.) Listening with Non-Human Others pp 75-84 Lewes: ARN Press.