Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

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January 2013

The space between... Differences

By Elizabeth Silva - 25 January 2013, 10:46

I was asked to talk about ‘the space between’ in this TED event about women, to explore where life happens: the spaces of women’s lives in between, not simply here and there, not black or white. I’ll tell you about Lynne and Janet to think about the space around and the space between their different lives.

Harry’s old game

By Vron Ware - 25 January 2013, 10:38

Leaving aside the implications of what Harry Wales actually said on his return from Afghanistan, the publicity his comments have generated have, once again, pointed to aspects of mil

Nationality: from genuine connections to tenuous links

By Amandine Scherrer - 17 January 2013, 15:20

By Laura van Waas. Around the world today, many hundreds of thousands of people – if not more – encounter difficulties affecting the rights that they enjoy as citizens of their state. Their situation is commonly described as one of “ineffective nationality” and it can have dire consequences.

Neoliberalism as radical political economy

By Clive Barnett - 17 January 2013, 15:10

In the intellectual world I grew up in and to a large extent still inhabit, the phrase ‘political economy’ is often just another way of saying ‘Marxism’.

Making MOOCs public

By Nick Mahony - 17 January 2013, 15:05

There is now vigorous debate about how ‘we’ should understand what massive open online courses (or MOOCs) might do to the HE sector (today, for example, I read Clay Shirky’s epochal and rather technologically deterministic account, but also see

Cultural studies and digital culture

By Gillian Rose - 17 January 2013, 15:00

I have just finished reading John Hartley’s hugely entertaining and provocative book on cultural studies past, present and future.  Called Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies, it argues that cultural studies as a discipline has ossified into a field where ‘reading