Blogs

Human rights and citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Elena Cirkovic

This blog entry was first posted on the Oecumene Website, the 10th of May 2013

Do we really know who can act as a European citizen?

This blog entry by Prof. Mike Saward was first published on the ENACT Project website the 2d of May, 2013

The new book Enacting European Citizenship does a curious thing: it questions the very ownership of the idea of citizenship. 

The military in our midst

The costs of Iraq and Afghanistan have frequently been calculated under broad headings of death and money: the numbers of lives lost and the expense of training, equipping and maintaining sustained warfare overseas. But non-stop combat affects the relationships between military and civilian communities at home too in ways that are not always visible.

What do we expect of contemporary childhood?

This is the question at the heart of our new edited book, Family troubles? Exploring changes and challenges in the family lives of children and young people.

British Muslim soldiers

On Wednesday 20 March I happened to hear Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to the UK Forces, on BBC radio 4 delivering a Lent talk on the theme of abandonment. It is well worth listening to although it is only available until March 31st.

What Pussy Riot Know

To mark 2013 and the European Year of Citizens (EY Citizens), the ENACT project is hosting a series of blog posts.  Each blog post addresses the challenges and opportunities that European Citizenship represents. Our first blog is a guest posting by Professor Rosi Braidotti.

Mobility is changing the World? Just ask Obama

The road to the old factory is almost deserted. Perhaps this is because it is a sunny Saturday afternoon and few companies have opened their doors in this area of Poble Nou, in the south of Barcelona. The economic crisis probably has a great deal to do with it too.

Keeping Up Numbers

Gender is currently more newsworthy than ethnicity, but in demographic terms, young minority ethnic citizens constitute a valuable pool of potential recruits.

Fighting for the high ground

This blog post was first published on Open Democracy website on the 15 February 2013.

Sex and relationship therapy: fiction and fact

Meg recently posted this blog on OU Society Matters Platform (14 February 2013):