Citizenship Identities Governance

Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed.

Citizenship Studies: An Agenda - Professor Engin Isin 2007 Public Lecture

Reflecting in part on the 10-year anniversary of the journal Citizenship Studies, in this public lecture Professor Engin Isin suggests that an agenda of research dialogue across the conceptual and empirical areas of citizenship, identities and governance might be fruitfully explored through a focus on rights and responsibilities.

Identities: 2007 CCIG Book Launch

This is the second of two roundtable discussions that launched the new books of 13 members of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. The discussion, focused on Identities, included Kath Woodward, Jane McCarthy, Sarah Neal, Helen Lucey, Darren Langdridge and Wendy Hollway. The discussion was chaired by Professor Ann Phoenix.

Citizenship and Governance: 2007 CCIG Book Launch

This is the first of two roundtable discussions that launched the new books of 13 members of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. The discussion, focused on Citizenship and Governance, included John Clarke, Janet Newman, Michael Saward, Paul Lewis, Jef Huysmans, Margaret Wetherell, Celia Davies and Elizabeth Barnett.

The Pedagogical State

Maternal Identity, Care and Intersubjectivity

The aim for this ESRC-funded work is to extend the implications of Professor 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 identi

CCIG Dialogues

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.

Governing the Subjects and Spaces of Ethical Consumption

This research project, funded under the ESRC/ AHRC Cultures of Consumption programme, examines the pragmatics of getting people to adopt 'ethical' consumption behaviour.