Recent posts tagged with "CCIG Forums"

CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics

CCIG forum 29 continued our exploration of what is at stake in translations of the personal into the public and the public into the personal.

CCIG Forum 31 'Fathers and Fatherhood'

CCIG Psychosocial and Families, Relationships and Communities Research Programmes have organised the CCIG forum 31 dedicated to 'Fathers and fatherhood: policy, representation and experience'.

CCIG Forum 30: Enacting public engagement: collaboration and critique within/beyond the university

The aims of this forum were to explore what is required to enact engagement in different contexts, and to reflect on what is at stake in these processes. Bringing together researchers, activists and practitioners with an interest in publics and public institutions, the forum provided a space for conversations about:

CCIG Forum 28 on Methods

CCIG Forum 28, held on Tuesday, 4 December 2012 was co-organised by Enactments/Families, Relationships, Communities/Postgrad Research programmes. It provided a valuable practical opportunity to critically reflect on the social and political life of method and the future potential of research data.

CCIG Forum 27: Articulating the personal and the public

This Forum explores what is stake in translations of the personal into the public and the public into the personal. What is at stake in such processes? In what sites and through what practices do these translations occur? In phrasing the questions in this way, we aim to avoid the conventional distinctions between the public and private or the personal and political.

CCIG Forum 26 - Enacting Worlds

'ENACTING WORLDS', hosted by the Enactments Research Programme including keynote lecture by Prof Annemarie Mol.

CCIG Forum 25, Mediating and (de)politicizing the 2011 riots

Mediating and (de)politicizing the August 2011 riots

Defective consumers, violent thugs or shoplifters with a cause?

During the August 2011 riots across the UK not only opportunistic media commentators and politicians were quick to utter their opinions about the causes of the violent destruction and the character of the rioters themselves; everyone seemed to have an opinion and these were quickly disseminated across YouTube, Twitter, BBM and the alike. With a few months now having passed by, how do we navigate through all these and how do we take a few steps back to encourage further reflection?

Creativity, the Radical Imagination and the Problem of Action

Raluca Soreanu (UCL)

In international theory, just as in social theory more broadly, we are traversing a crisis in terms of working with and from an actor with a psyche; this is manifested in a variety of ways, starting from plain biological reductionism, and ending with attempts to render the psyche as a more or less sophisticated supercomputer. As a way out of this impasse and as a measure of ethical social and international theory, I propose a de-functionalised conception of the imagination which is not de-coupled from generating emancipatory social forms. Following Cornelius Castoriadis, the radical imagination reveals itself to us as a continuously surging flux of representations, desires, and affects. While Castoriadis insists on the irreducible creativity of the psyche, of society and history, his psychoanalytic understanding of the radical imagination allows us to neither banalize creativity, nor transform it into an attribute of the genius. It is the imagination that renders the very relation of mind to world possible. Finally, I reflect on situations of association and dissociation where new global imaginaries resurface; here, the radical imagination functions as a resource for creating novel social forms and leads to moments of social emergence.

'Big Cuts, Big Society' Third Sector Roundtable

This is the latest in a series of ongoing events on the theme of 'Big Cuts, Big Society: politics of the contemporary' convened by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG).

CCIG Forum 24: 'Mixing/non-mixing?'

That Britain has one of the fastest growing mixed race population in the world, with 3% of children under 16 being classified as mixed race and 10% of children under 16 living in a family with more than one ethnicity, is an accepted fact. What is less clear is whether this should be celebrated as evidence of a long history of tolerance and mixing among ordinary people, e.g.