Recent posts tagged with "community"

'Citizenship without Community' Conference Media 10th May 2010

For those unable to attend the Citizenship without Community workshop held on May 10th 2010 all of the talks are now available to listen to in podcast format through the links below.

Keynotes

Call for Papers: Citizenship without Community

This international, interdisciplinary workshop to be held on 10 May 2010 asks in what ways do recent attempts at rethinking citizenship, mobility and community reframe what it means to act politically? Post-national citizenship, mobile citizenship, citizenship in international relations, transnational enactment of citizenship, citizenship in cities all challenge the assumption that state-like communities are the privileged sites of political practice.

Citizenship without Community

This international, interdisciplinary workshop asks in what ways do recent attempts at rethinking citizenship, mobility and community reframe what it means to act politically? Post-national citizenship, mobile citizenship, citizenship in international relations, transnational enactment of citizenship, citizenship in cities all challenge the assumption that state-like communities are the privileged sites of political practice.

Community, Citizenship and the 'War on Terror'

Jef Huysmans has co-edited Community, Citizenship and the 'War on Terror' (Palgrave, 2009) with Patricia Noxolo (University of Sheffield), a collection which discusses security as a question that has come to affect more

Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside

Dr Sarah Neal has published a new book, Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside (2009 on Ashgate). Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness.

Reflecting on Managed Migration

The recent ‘Managed Migration’ conference (19 May 09) organized by inside government took place in the plush surroundings of a central London hotel. As I was looking for the hotel, I mused about how the choice of location, a hotel in transnational ownership hints at transnational mobility, though in this case of capital.

CCIG Forum 9

This month's forum includes a range of very interesting seminars given by three visiting scholars: Jose Hernandez from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid, Spain; Marja Hannele Keranen from the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland; and Angharad Closs Stephens from Durham University.