Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Projects in 2008
Maternal Identity, Care and Intersubjectivity
The aim for this ESRC-funded work is to extend the implications of Prof Wendy Holloway’s recent empirical project on the identity transition involved in becoming a mother to wider theoretical, methodological, epistemological and applied questions raised by a psycho-social approach to identity research.
Research questions:
Emergent Publics
This two-year Research Seminar Series, running from the start of 2008 to the end of 2009, challenges assumptions about the decline of the public sphere in the face of 'neo-liberal' challenges to public institutions, processes of individualization and transformations of collective solidarities.
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
ENACT is a consortium bringing together researchers from three original member states of the European Union (UK, Belgium and the Netherlands), two new member states (Hungary and Latvia) and a candidate state (Turkey) to explore in depth how European citizenship is claimed, disputed, built – in short, enacted.
The Pedagogical State
This ESRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship project investigated the cultural practices of governing through pedagogical means, and an evolving pedagogical relationship between state and citizen.
Looking Through the Lens of the Metropolitan Newspaper: The Changing Political Geographies of Journalism, Media and Cities
Using the metropolitan or city newspaper as lens, this project explores how the histories, technologies, and economic, political and institutional rationalities coalescing around news media connect to changing patterns of urban public life and citizenship.
Semlin Judenlager in Serbian Public Memory
This British Academy funded research project explores the post-World War Two memorialisation of one of the main sites of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Serbia, the Semlin Judenlager.
The Good Citizen
Despite the fact that the general topic of citizenship is all around us, the notion of the good citizen is rarely explored. This is because the research focus has been on just one aspect of the increasing rates of movement around the world: the live debate about immigration.
Identities in Process: Becoming Bangladeshi, African Caribbean and White Mothers
Does motherhood change a woman's identity? How does becoming a mother differ from how it did a generation ago? And how do such changes differ depending on a woman's ethnic background? While much research has been done on the transition to motherhood, little is known about how ethnicity and 'race' differentiate the process of becoming mothers.
ESRC Identities and Social Action Research Programme
Identities and Social Action was a major, five-year research programme funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. The programme ran from 2004 to 2008 and was directed by Prof Margaret Wetherell at The Open University. The ESRC invested £4 million in 25 research projects based in universities around the UK.
The Impact of EU Enlargement on Central European Party Systems and Electoral Alignments
The British Academy-funded project focuses on the process of EU enlargement and its impact on party systems and electoral alignments in the eight Central European countries involved in the process since 2004.