Recent posts tagged with "governance"

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'?

Book Launch: Publics, Politics and Power

Publicness appears to be in decline or retreat in the face of markets, consumerism and individualism. Yet questions of public participation, public governance and the reform of public services are at the top of the political agenda in many countries.

CCIG on YouTube

CCIG has recently established its own YouTube channel, with the channel's videos cross-posted in the CCIG website’s Media section. With special thanks to the Open University’s Berrill Webcasts site, we are now able to make available through these sites archived video content from selected CCIG-related events.

Public Knowledges: Emergent Publics Seminar 4

This event is by invitation only.

This last seminar in the Emergent Publics ESRC Seminar Series will include reflections on the progress made in the previous seminars. It will also focus on the task of articulating research on emergent publics with various audiences, including policy arenas, media, and NGOs.

Citizenship Studies: An Agenda - Professor Engin Isin 2007 Public Lecture

Reflecting in part on the 10-year anniversary of the journal Citizenship Studies, in this public lecture Professor Engin Isin suggests that an agenda of research dialogue across the conceptual and empirical areas of citizenship, identities and governance might be fruitfully explored through a focus on rights and responsibilities.

Identities: 2007 CCIG Book Launch

This is the second of two roundtable discussions that launched the new books of 13 members of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. The discussion, focused on Identities, included Kath Woodward, Jane McCarthy, Sarah Neal, Helen Lucey, Darren Langdridge and Wendy Hollway. The discussion was chaired by Professor Ann Phoenix.

Citizenship and Governance: 2007 CCIG Book Launch

This is the first of two roundtable discussions that launched the new books of 13 members of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. The discussion, focused on Citizenship and Governance, included John Clarke, Janet Newman, Michael Saward, Paul Lewis, Jef Huysmans, Margaret Wetherell, Celia Davies and Elizabeth Barnett.

Going Public? People, Policy and Politics – Professor Janet Newman Inaugural Lecture

This inaugural lecture by Professor Janet Newman explores the changing fortunes of the public domain. The boundaries between the public, private and personal have become increasingly contested and blurred. In the process, we have become less clear about what constitutes a public domain and how we should act in it. How should the public interest be expressed?