Programmes

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) conducts research in order to enhance our understanding of citizenship, identity formation and practices of governance in the contemporary world. All its three strands are repesented in these research programmes, which focus on vital and urgent political and ethical questions of our times.

Bodies

'Bodies' reassesses and reconceptualises the political constitution of the body and the self, as a means of tackling afresh the crucially linked questions of 'what it is to be human' and 'what it is to be a political being'.

Families and Relationships

The Families and Relationships interdisciplinary research programme takes a critical constructionist approach to these important areas of social life, and their intersections with themes of citizenship, identities and governance.

Intimacies

Contemporary theoretical and empirical investigation have shown both the extent of transformation in intimate relations and the far-reaching effects of these transformations.

Mobilities

The inter-disciplinary programme on Mobilities includes research and publications on the context, processes and impacts of human migrations, past and present, with reference to issues of economic organisation, social reproduction and transformation, and socio-cultural mobility.

Publics

The Publics programme seeks to develop new understandings of public action, public culture, public space, and the public sphere. The remaking of contemporary practices of publicness cuts across questions of citizenship, identities and governance.

Securities

The idiom of security has been a key vehicle for connecting local and global developments as well as everyday relations with high political stakes. This stitching work that security professionals and technology perform has evolved with an incredible intensity.