Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Jane McCarthy and Megan Doolittle (OU) present in this podcast a new book, Understanding Family Meanings.
This book, written by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle and Shelley Day Sclater, has been published by Policy Press (March 2012) .
About this Book:
On the 23d of Feb., 2012, CCIG hosted its 25th Forum co-organised by the Publics and the Post-graduate Programmes. The forum was dedicated to the 2011 UK Riots.
On 16th of Feb., 2012, CCIG hosted an Event organised by the Psychosocial Research Programme: “What Difference Does the Psychosocial Make?”
On the 5th of April, 2011, CCIG hosted an event with Arlie Hochschild (University of California, Berkeley, USA) chaired by Elizabeth Silva (OU), who gave a keynote on ‘Global Traffic, Female Services and Emotional life: the case of nannies and surrogates’.
On the 5th of April, 2011, CCIG hosted an event with Arlie Hochschild (University of California, Berkeley, USA), who gave a keynote. The event was organised by Jacqui Gabb (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy) and Elizabeth Silva (Professor of Sociology).
Prof Engin Isin has been interviewed about the idea of being a global citizen. He talked about the definition of global citizenship and said that many people are living as global citizens, through the exchange of ideas and interest in what happens elsewhere.
As part of the CCIG Forum 24 on mixed raciality, held the 6th of December, Petra Nordqvist (Researcher, The Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life and Sociology, University of Manchester) presented her research on 'Negotiating Non-genetic Kinship in the Context of Assisted Reproduction’.
This Keynote by Anna Leander was given during CCIG Forum 22 (21.06.2011)
Of Cookbooks and Unfinished Dictionaries: On the Promise and Problems of Using Bourdieu Methodologies for Studying Citizenship Act
Keynote: Raluca Soreanu (UCL) 'Creativity, the Radical Imagination and the Problem of Action
This keynote was given during CCIG 21th Forum, held on 26th May 2011.