About the programme

The programme places emphasis on how social methods (as part of social life) play a role in sustaining, abandoning or transforming people, things and places.

Currently, the programme studies how citizenship is not simply a set of rights but is enacted by acts of non-citizens. It studies how insecurities are not problems waiting to be fixed but are created by practices of security. In these ways Enactments addresses the intertwinement of methods, people, things and places and what it means to change, innovate, and challenge social and political orders.

The programme recently held its first Forum, Enacting Worlds, with a keynote lecture on 'Enacting values: on good and bad food'  by Annemarie Mol, Professor of Anthropology of the Body, University of Amsterdam.

The programme currently hosts the following related Projects:

• Oecumene (funded by the European Research Council): An exploration of how the concept of citizenship is being refigured and renewed around the globe
• Placing Ourselves: An investigation into local practices of belonging and integration
• Militarisation and everyday life, which explores the interface between military institutions and civil society. 

Programme Directors

Kesi Mahendran and Engin Isin