Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Prof Elizabeth Silva has recently appeared on two media programmes.
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.
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.
We are witnessing the emergence of a multitude of political experiments. Globally and across the domains of government, social movement, media, arts, academia and business these experiments offer ways of channelling disenchantment with political parties and institutional practices.
Social scientists who want to open dialogues online and engage multiple publics with their research need not be professionally trained, nor have the production values of radio and television.
This two-year Research Seminar Series, running from the start of 2008 to the end of 2009, challenges assumptions about the decline of the public sphere in the face of 'neo-liberal' challenges to public institutions, processes of individualization and transformations of collective solidarities.
Using the metropolitan or city newspaper as lens, this project explores how the histories, technologies, and economic, political and institutional rationalities coalescing around news media connect to changing patterns of urban public life and citizenship.
In addition to an exploratory conversation between the Intimacies and Publics Programmes, and a two-paper Mobilities seminar, CCIG Forum 4 represented the launch of our new CCIG website.