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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Blogs

Reflecting on Managed Migration

By Umut Erel - 12 June 2009, 14:29

The recent ‘Managed Migration’ conference (19 May 09) organized by inside government took place in the plush surroundings of a central London hotel. As I was looking for the hotel, I mused about how the choice of location, a hotel in transnational ownership hints at transnational mobility, though in this case of capital.

Summoning the Active Citizen

By Janet Newman - 8 May 2009, 15:15

Responsibility, participation and choice summon different images of the 'active' citizen and produce different publics.  The tensions between them, however, tend to be displaced onto citizens themselves, colliding with other repertoires of action and political engagement.

Punk Aesthetics and Doing Social Sciences Research Online

By s.rodgers - 7 May 2009, 12:58

Social scientists who want to open dialogues online and engage multiple publics with their research need not be professionally trained, nor have the production values of radio and television.

How the Financial Crisis is Being Packaged for Public Consumption

By Grahame Thompson - 4 May 2009, 10:09

How is the financial crisis being packaged for public consumption? I think there are four main ways this is being played. The first is to re-install a ‘business as usual’ narrative. This is one which is forging a new category of the ‘nervous public at risk’.

Professions and Citizenship

By efi2 - 29 April 2009, 15:48

It was recently (April 2009) reported that professions such as law, media and finance had become more exclusive in the past decade. This raises interesting research questions for citizenship, identities and governance.

CCIG Dialogues

By efi2 - 27 April 2009, 19:20

We have gathered together discussions, blogs and collaborations under ‘dialogues’ because we thought the term ‘dialogue’ describes the core of this website most accurately. To dialogue means to converse with one or more people but it also has such a deep history that it indicates a literary as well as a philosophical genre.