THE LRM

Amongst other things I’m an anarcho-flaneuse, performance artist and part-time lecturer in Geography at The University of Liverpool.

In 2006 I founded the psychogeographical collective The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). Since then I’ve developed a unique academic-activist-artistic praxis asserting that the streets should belong to everyone. My research interests include walking as a cultural, political, artistic and research tool, the importance of public space, access and equality and reimagining Manchester. I love The Handsome Family, Doctor Who, a pint of Guinness in a proper pub, gig going, cake decorating and perfecting my seitan.  I am actively involved in a number of campaigns to make Manchester a fairer, more equal and interesting place. At the moment these include working with others to fight the introduction of a PSPO (Public Space Protection Order) that will criminalise homeless people,  making the Peterloo memorial accessible for disabled people and ensuring the Irwell river towpath remains open to the public. 

I welcome invitations for walks, talks, lectures, workshops or other interesting projects. I have performed, exhibited and shared my work widely, please get in touch if you want to find out more or have a chat. A list of performance walks and tours I have written can be found here under events

Selected Writing

If you can’t access any of these publications please email me mlrose@thelrm.org and I will  share my copy

2021
Walking Together, Alone During the Pandemic in Geography 106:2, 101-104, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2021.1919414
From an Aviatrix to a Eugenicist: Walking With Manchester’s Modernist Heroines (Morag Rose and The Modernist Heroines) in Gender Place and Culture publication imminent DOI:  10.1080/0966369X.2021.1956436 
A Partial Ornithological Treasury of Salford in You Belong Here Salford Art Gallery
Forthcoming: Catcalls and Cobbles: Gendered Limits of the Right to The City in Burgum S. and Higgins K (ed) 'How the Other Half Lives: Contrasting Experiences of Everyday Inequality'  Manchester University Press

2020
Access Denied? Disabled People and Walking Art in H. Billinghurst, C. Hind and P. Smith et al (ed) Walking Bodies Triarchy Press
Pedestrian Practices: Walking from the Mundane to the Marvellous in S.M. Hall and H. Holmes (ed) Mundane Methods Manchester University Press
Whose City? In Red Pepper #229 August ‘No return to normal’
UnManchester: A Warning to Soul Seekers Shock City 1: Authenticity
Spirit, Canal, Place in P. Dobraszcyzk and S. Butler (eds) Manchester Something Rich and Strange Manchester University Press
"I am not a Sat Nav": Affective Place-Making, Community Action and the Ginnel That Roared in C. Courage and L. Platt (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Place-Making Routledge
Psychogeography and Urban Exploration with Jane Samuels in N. von Benzon, M. Holton, C. Wilkinson and S. Wilkinson (eds) Creative Methods for Human Geographers Sage
 

2019
There’s Something in The Water! A Psychogeographical Exploration of Manchester’s Waterways in K. Bell (ed) Supernatural Cities Boydell and Brewer
Loitering, Resisting, Moving in C. Rose (ed) Psychogeography and Psychotherapy: PCCS Books
Morris, B. and M. Rose  Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future, Global Performance Studies 2.2.
The PSPO Who is Manchester For? Greater Manchester Housing Action blog http://www.gmhousingaction.com/the-pspo-who-is-manchester-for/

2018
Women Walking Manchester: Desire Lines Through The Original Modern City (Phd thesis, University of Sheffied)

2017
Buzzing, Bimbling, Beating Our Bounds: Walking A Line Through Manchester in LivingMaps Review 3 

2015
Confessions of an Anarcho-Flâneuse or Psychogeography The Mancunian Way in Walking Inside Out ed. Tina Richardson Rowman and Littlefield International

Listen: 

I am delighted to contribute to the following, thanks to everyone who made them happen especially Jo Norcup

The Art of Now: Women Who Walk https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nmn

Geography Workshop Presents ‘Er Outdoors https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/her-outdoors-14-april-2016/