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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News archive for October 2012

Up in Arm: Vron Ware's column for Open Democracy

By Amandine Scherrer - 26 October 2012, 15:45

To further explore the militarisation of every day life in its shifting global context, Vron now publishes a column on Open Democracy website, Up in Arms, that will address the idea that Britain has been undergoing some complex processes of militarisation as a consequence of ‘Blair’s wars’.

Citizens Without Frontiers, by Engin Isin

By Amandine Scherrer - 15 October 2012, 15:33

States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory?