Treatied Spaces

Treatied Spaces is an interdisciplinary research group based at the University of Hull, U.K. It brings together educators, Indigenous groups, museums, creative artists, NGOs and policymakers to foreground treaties and environmental concerns. Our aim is to deepen understanding of treaties as living and contested instruments of inter-cultural diplomacy. Historic and contemporary treaties remain central to the quest for social and environmental justice across the globe and are a foundation for renewed and more balanced relationships between Indigenous and settler communities. They shape our understanding of sovereignty over land, resources, peoples and environments on earth, in the seas and in space. We advance these themes through research, publication, innovative digital platforms and data visualisation, public engagement and outreach, impact and other forms of knowledge exchange. Treatied Spaces also convenes a Research Strand, ‘Living With/Out Water’ within the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures (£1.3M) which explores humanity’s relationships with water in the ‘green-blue’ regions of the world – past, present and future. We are grateful to United Kingdom Research and Innovation, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust for their generous support.