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Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Recent posts tagged with "citizenship"
'Going Public: The Janet Newman Project' (5 October 2010)
This forum was a special event to celebrate the career and retirement of Professor Janet Newman. The day was organised around three panels dealing with different ways of thinking about the concept of the 'public'.
Dr Nick Mahony appointed as new CCIG Research Associate
CCIG is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Nick Mahony as the new CCIG research associate. Nick will be taking over from Dr James Ash who is leaving to take up a lectureship in Media and Cultural Studies at Northumbria University.
Insecurity, Fear and Risk Working Group Meeting
13 July 2010, 14:00 - 15:30
On 13th July at 2pm the Insecurity, Fear and Risk Working Group will be meeting under the new thematic strand of Borders, mobility and citizenship.
'Citizens without Nations' Professor Engin Isin
This keynote lecture was given by Professor Engin Isin at the 'Citizenship without Community' event hosted by CCIG in collaboration with the BISA poststructural politics working group, held on the 10th of May 2010.
European Alternatives and Forum for European Philosophy 'Provocations series'
18 February 2010, 19:00 - 20:30
Citizenship after Orientalism
Engin F. Isin, Chair in Citizenship and Professor of Politics, Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University and Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance (CCIG), Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University.
Engin Isin awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Prof Engin Isin has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his research project Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism. The project focuses on the interaction between two controversial and contested concepts: citizenship – the process by which belonging is recognised and enacted – and orientalism – the assertion of the superiority of western culture over its eastern counterparts.
The project will formally commence in April 2010.
Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism
This project, led by Prof Engin Isin, is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour ERC-AG-SH2). The project focuses on the interaction between two controversial and contested concepts: citizenship – the process by which belonging is recognised and enacted – and orientalism – the assertion of the superiority of western culture over its eastern counterparts.
Watch Wendy Brown's Keynote Lecture
A video of Professor Wendy Brown's recent lecture within the CCIG keynote lecture series - including responses from Professor Stuart Elden, Department of Geography, Durham University, and
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty: Professor Wendy Brown Keynote Lecture
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, dozens of walls have been erected between and within nation-states. Why? What are these walls doing--materially, performatively, symbolically? What is their relationship to the erosion of state sovereignty? What is the nature of state and popular investments in them, especially when they don't 'work'?
Listen to Two Recent CCIG Seminars
Audio recordings of two recent seminars have been added to the CCIG website: Angharad Closs Stephens from the Department of Geography at Durham University on The Imaginary Geographies of the War on Terror; and Patricia Wood from the