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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 "politics"
CCIG 'War & Visuality:conflict and the politics of perception' Workshop
10 June 2010, 13:00 - 11 June 2010, 17:00
This workshop addresses the relationship between war and visuality to scrutinise both how questions of seeing having figured as integral to the ways in which wars are fought, and how war is encountered as a spectacle and responded to.
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
The Imaginary Geographies of the War on Terror - Angharad Closs Stephens Seminar
In this seminar, Angharad Closs Stephens from the Department of Geography at Durham University critically considers debates about the 'war on terror' and its imaginary geographies.
Citizenship in the 'In-Between City' - Patricia Wood Seminar
In this seminar, co-hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and the OpenSpace Research Centre, Dr Patricia Wood from the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada explores citizenship in the 'in-between city'.
Visualizing War: Politics Between Image and Text - Roland Bleiker Keynote Lecture
10 June 2010, 13:00 - 15:00
Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations at The University of Queensland, Australia, will be visiting the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance for a special keynote lecture.
“Visualizing War: Politics Between Image and Text”
Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
23 October 2009, 10:30 - 17:30
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed.
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty: Wendy Brown Keynote
25 November 2009, 14:00 - 16:30
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'?
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.