Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
In this interview, given after her keynote lecture at CCIIG Forum 12, Prof Deborah Britzman outlines her key ideas and concepts regarding psychoanalysis and education.
In this interview, given after her keynote lecture at CCIG Forum 12, Professor Deborah Britzman outlines her key ideas and concepts regarding psychanalysis and education. The interview is conducted by Dr Gail Lewis
Deborah Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English at York University, Canada, gave a CCIG keynote lecture within CCIG Forum 12.
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'?
The aim for this ESRC-funded work is to extend the implications of Prof Wendy Holloway’s recent empirical project on the identity transition involved in becoming a mother to wider theoretical, methodological, epistemological and applied questions raised by a psycho-social approach to identity research.
Research questions: