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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 "identities"
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'?
Stephanie Taylor's Narratives of Identity and Place released
Dr Stephanie Taylor’s book Narratives of Identity and Place has recently been published on Routledge. The book investigates the continuing importance of place for women’s identities, employing a theoretical and empirical approach based on previous work in narrative and discursive psychology.
Book Launch: Narratives of Identity and Place
24 November 2009, 17:00 - 18:30
This book launch celebrates the release of Dr Stephanie Taylor’s Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2009), which investigates the continuing importance of place for women’s identities, employing a theoretical and empirical approach based on previous work in narrative and discursive psychology.
CCIG/OpenSpace Seminar: Citizenship in the 'In-Between City'
3 December 2009, 12:00 - 16:30
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and the OpenSpace Research Centre are hosting a joint seminar with Dr Patricia Wood from the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada. The seminar will also be preceded by a postgraduate workshop open to all research students affiliated to either Centre.
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.
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.
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.