Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence

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December 2012

Goodbye Holocene, hello Anthropocene

By Olaf Corry - 18 December 2012, 11:03

A resounding 'no'.

Urban discontents

By Clive Barnett - 18 December 2012, 10:50

There has been a flurry of interest in the theme of ‘planetary urbanization’ recently.

Beards and bearskins

By Vron Ware - 14 December 2012, 10:24

The image of a Sikh soldier used to illustrate the increasing diversity of British society this week ought not to pass without comment.

When soldiering gets sexy

By Vron Ware - 11 December 2012, 15:50

Regardless of what they say about a man in uniform, it’s clear that some of them have a particular appeal when they’re half naked and preferably holding a gun.

Competing to be public

By Nick Mahony - 3 December 2012, 12:18

We know about the proliferating demands on higher education researchers to collaborate, co-produce and publicly engage; we also know these demands exist in tension with unprecedented pressures on researchers to compete.

Public action: making things visible or catching the attention?

By Clive Barnett - 3 December 2012, 12:08

I’ve been meaning to write down some thoughts provoked in particular by the workshop on Security and its Publics that I attended in Ottawa back in September, but other things have been in the way – including another workshop on Rethinking the Public, this time in Bloemfontein, which partly confirmed some of these thou

The citizenship predicament of Britain’s military migrants

By Vron Ware - 3 December 2012, 11:57

Should Britain’s serving and former soldiers from Commonwealth countries be granted UK citizenship as a reward for their military service? Their status as foreign nationals within the armed forces means that they embody a stark contradiction between the soldier as hero and the migrant as unwanted scrounger.