Recent posts tagged with "CCIG Forums"

CCIG Forum 28

CCIG Forums are events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment. Forums are scheduled in advance for each academic year, and are intended to feature a wide selection of events held throughout the day, including seminars, colloquia, keynotes

CCIG Forum 27

CCIG Forums are events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment. Forums are scheduled in advance for each academic year, and are intended to feature a wide selection of events held throughout the day, including seminars, colloquia, keynotes

CCIG Forum 26

CCIG Forums are events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment. Forums are scheduled in advance for each academic year, and are intended to feature a wide selection of events held throughout the day, including seminars, colloquia, keynotes

CCIG Forum 25, Mediating and (de)politicizing the 2011 riots

Mediating and (de)politicizing the August 2011 riots

Defective consumers, violent thugs or shoplifters with a cause?

During the August 2011 riots across the UK not only opportunistic media commentators and politicians were quick to utter their opinions about the causes of the violent destruction and the character of the rioters themselves; everyone seemed to have an opinion and these were quickly disseminated across YouTube, Twitter, BBM and the alike. With a few months now having passed by, how do we navigate through all these and how do we take a few steps back to encourage further reflection?

Creativity, the Radical Imagination and the Problem of Action

Raluca Soreanu (UCL)

In international theory, just as in social theory more broadly, we are traversing a crisis in terms of working with and from an actor with a psyche; this is manifested in a variety of ways, starting from plain biological reductionism, and ending with attempts to render the psyche as a more or less sophisticated supercomputer. As a way out of this impasse and as a measure of ethical social and international theory, I propose a de-functionalised conception of the imagination which is not de-coupled from generating emancipatory social forms. Following Cornelius Castoriadis, the radical imagination reveals itself to us as a continuously surging flux of representations, desires, and affects. While Castoriadis insists on the irreducible creativity of the psyche, of society and history, his psychoanalytic understanding of the radical imagination allows us to neither banalize creativity, nor transform it into an attribute of the genius. It is the imagination that renders the very relation of mind to world possible. Finally, I reflect on situations of association and dissociation where new global imaginaries resurface; here, the radical imagination functions as a resource for creating novel social forms and leads to moments of social emergence.

'Big Cuts, Big Society' Third Sector Roundtable

As increasing calls for volunteerism and philanthropy collide with government budget cuts and civil disobedience, what is the role and place of civil society organisations and citizen participation in the UK?

CCIG Forum 24: 'Mixing/non-mixing?'

'Mixing'/'Non-mixing'? The in/significance of race in mixed raciality, family narratives and welfare practices

CCIG Forum - CANCELLED

CCIG Forums are events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment.

CCIG Forum - CANCELLED

CCIG Forums are events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment.

CCIG Forum 23 - Resisting (In)Security, Securing Resistance

Security and insecurity dominate the vocabulary of social, political and economic problems. Terrorism, migration, poverty and, most recently, the financial crisis are made sense of in these terms, as forms of insecurity to be eliminated, neutralised or at least contained with the aim of achieving security. Yet, insecurity and security are not so easily separable, as governmental interventions to make secure entail their own insecurities. Paradoxically, the elimination of insecurity both works through and fosters insecurity by constituted risky and dangerous subjects alongside objects of insecurity. So how can resistance to insecurity be conceptualised, analysed and practiced? Resistance to insecurity can also subtly morph into that which it tries to resist. Resisting insecurity can become a security practice, while resistance to security gives rise to its own insecurities. What kinds of security practices emerge out of the desire to resist complex insecurities and what forms of resistance are thinkable?