Application deadline 12 noon (UTC) on 15 May 2022 The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law (CISRUL) studies the life in the world of political concepts. The … Continue reading CISRUL PhD Studentships to start in October 2022
Hanifi Baris
BA (Baskent University School of Law, Ankara, Turkey) MA (Sungkonghoe University Department of Sociology, Seoul, South Korea) PhD Candidate (University of Aberdeen, Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of … Continue reading Hanifi Baris
Dr. Denisse Román-Burgos
Dr. Denisse Román-Burgos holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from El Colegio de Michoacán (Mexico). Her work draws from Historical and Political Anthropology, as well as Marxism. Her main areas … Continue reading Dr. Denisse Román-Burgos
Conceptualizing Difference
The conference took place online from 13-16 April 2021. View the conference programme and abstracts here The idea of ‘difference’ governs today’s political thinking. Struggles for equality and justice are … Continue reading Conceptualizing Difference
Art and culture initiatives
Practitioner brief (pdf) This briefing paper is part of a broader project investigating societal responses to violence in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. It explores the role that art … Continue reading Art and culture initiatives
Local citizen security councils
Practitioner brief (pdf) This briefing paper is part of a broader project investigating societal responses to violence in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. It explores the establishment of local security … Continue reading Local citizen security councils
Legal mobilisation
Practitioner brief (pdf) This briefing paper is part of a broader project investigating societal responses to violence in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. It explores how local organisations and … Continue reading Legal mobilisation
Politics of ‘democracy’
Political Concepts in the World – Politics of 'democracy' The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, is delighted to offer 6 Early Stage Researcher … Continue reading Politics of ‘democracy’
Political Concepts in the World – The “nation” resurgent?
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD positions at the University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, is delighted to offer 6 Early Stage Researcher (PhD) positions, lasting 3 years … Continue reading Political Concepts in the World – The “nation” resurgent?
Funding a PhD at CISRUL
CISRUL welcomes PhD projects on any political concepts, and in any of our disciplines: anthropology, sociology, politics, history, philosophy, theology, cultural studies, law and education. Our supervisors are listed here. … Continue reading Funding a PhD at CISRUL
Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
Volume co-edited by Jeffrey Alexander (Yale) and Trevor Stack (CISRUL) for Cambridge University Press, 2018 forthcomingMembers of white nationalists are met by a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. … Continue reading Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
Visit of Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
18th - 22nd October 2017 Hosted by Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale … Continue reading Visit of Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
Respuestas societales al crimen y la violencia en México
Michoacán es un estado en donde el crimen y la violencia han entorpecido las garantías de justicia. Ni las iniciativas institucionales ni la intervención de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (ONG) … Continue reading Respuestas societales al crimen y la violencia en México
Se convoca a investigador posdoctoral con enfoque en análisis jurídico y políticas públicas
Fecha límite: viernes 9 de junio de 2017 Se abre convocatoria para una nueva plaza de asistente de investigación posdoctoral para proyecto internacional sobre activismo en Michoacán, como zona afectada por violencia. … Continue reading Se convoca a investigador posdoctoral con enfoque en análisis jurídico y políticas públicas
Societal responses to crime and violence in Mexico
(Hay una versión en español aquí.) The project focused on societal responses because Mexico’s institutional responses had proved little effective, and even exacerbated crime and violence. We chose the state … Continue reading Societal responses to crime and violence in Mexico
Research projects
Photo by Negative Space on Pexels.com Political concepts define the world as we know it - and us. CISRUL members conduct research on a broad variety of political concepts. We … Continue reading Research projects
Prospective PhD Students
CISRUL is building a vigorous community of PhD students who work closely with the academic staff and play an important role in all our activities. At CISRUL, we give great … Continue reading Prospective PhD Students
Dr. Alexander Crawford
Alexander is a third year PhD candidate in the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and is currently funded by CISRUL and the St. Andrews … Continue reading Dr. Alexander Crawford
CISRUL Faculty Members
Founding members Current CISRUL faculty
Dr. Domenico Carolei
Since graduating from CISRUL, Domenico has secured a permanent post as lecturer in Public Law & Public International Law at the University of Stirling. He also recently signed a contract … Continue reading Dr. Domenico Carolei
Saerom Han
Saerom is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations funded by CISRUL (University of Aberdeen, UK) and holds an MA in Middle Eastern Politics (Graduate School of International Studies … Continue reading Saerom Han
PhD Studentships
CISRUL is building a vigorous community of PhD students who work closely with the academic staff and play an important role in all our activities. PhD studies can often be … Continue reading PhD Studentships
Funding to Develop Postdoctoral Fellowships
We encourage you to apply for postdoctoral fellowships (Marie Curie, British Academy, Leverhulme, Newton International, ISRF etc.) to hold at CISRUL. If we feel that you would be a strong … Continue reading Funding to Develop Postdoctoral Fellowships
News
January 2018 6 Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD positions at CISRUL The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, is delighted to offer six Early Stage Researcher … Continue reading News
Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
ed. Trevor Stack and Rose Luminiello The volume is based on a series of CISRUL workshops, and will be published by Rowman & Littlefield International in November 2021, in the … Continue reading Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
Edited by Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen), Naomi R. Goldenberg (University of Ottawa), and Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling). Published by Brill in May 2015. Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to … Continue reading Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
News
CISRUL news, April 2015 Trevor Stack, CISRUL DIrector The first item to report is the volume which Brill is publishing in May, with the title Religion as a Category of … Continue reading News
Previous events and activities
The best way of learning about our activities is through reading the summaries of presentations and discussion at our recent events such as Decolonising Political Concepts (2019), Conceptualizing “Political” (2019), … Continue reading Previous events and activities
Dr. Rose Luminiello
Rose is currently a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) at the University of Aberdeen and the Cushwa Centre for the Study of American … Continue reading Dr. Rose Luminiello
Dr. Augustinus Mohn
Augustinus did his PhD in Law, Politics and International Relations with CISRUL from 2014-2017, focusing on the role of human rights in German high strategic policy decision-making processes. His research … Continue reading Dr. Augustinus Mohn
Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Eve Hayes de Kalaf is a sociolegal scholar with an extensive academic and professional background working in Latin America and the Caribbean. She was Stipendiary Fellow at the Centre for … Continue reading Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Dr. James King
My bachelor's and master's degrees are in Christian theology. I came to Aberdeen to explore the secular in theological perspective, and after joining CISRUL refined this to a consideration of … Continue reading Dr. James King
Dr. Alena Thiel
I received my PhD in 2016 from the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law at the University of Aberdeen. My doctoral dissertation focuses on travelling concepts of … Continue reading Dr. Alena Thiel
Dr. Hanifi Baris
Current Research Dr Baris’ current research focuses on experiments of council democracy launched by Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria, and two indigenous movements, the Zapatistas and the town of … Continue reading Dr. Hanifi Baris
Dr. Anna Grudzinska
Anna recently published a paper in a volume "Current Populism in Europe: Gender-Backlash and Counter-strategies" under the title "Make Misogyny Great Again. Anti-Gender Politics in Poland". A graduate of the … Continue reading Dr. Anna Grudzinska
Dr. Marek Szilvasi
Marek works as Program Officer with the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program (PHP), where he focuses on health law and equality. He also teaches at the Institute of Politics … Continue reading Dr. Marek Szilvasi
Chuck Sturtevant
I majored in anthropology as an undergraduate, but swore I would never return to academia and particularly not to such an esoteric and impenetrable field. However, in 2005 I moved … Continue reading Chuck Sturtevant
Dr. Ulisses Terto Neto
Current academic position State University of Goiás (UEG) (Anápolis, GO, Brazil)Professor of Law ulissestertoneto.ueg@gmail.com / ulisses.terto.neto@ueg.br +55 61 9 9178 7322 Academic qualifications Post-Doctorate in Human Rights – The Federal University … Continue reading Dr. Ulisses Terto Neto
Current PhD Projects
CISRUL’s PhD candidates represent a variety of disciplines, including sociology, law, race studies, international security studies, and history. Browse their individual profiles to learn more about their backgrounds, projects, and … Continue reading Current PhD Projects
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships CISRUL hopes to offer a 4-week postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in June 2015. The Fellowship will include accommodation and subsistence for up to 4 weeks, as well as travel … Continue reading Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships
PhD studentships starting September 2016
We hope to advertise a 2016-17 round of studentships by the end of February 2016 The studentships are likely to include fees and partial maintenance. CISRUL is building a vigorous … Continue reading PhD studentships starting September 2016
International political community
Matyas Bodig Believes that Aristotle’s “self-sufficiency” remains with us in form of “self-determination” something special about communities which can give rise to supreme power there are always other communities that … Continue reading International political community
Toward global political community?
Raul Acosta Theoretical points Political = managing collective affairs Contestation reifies political collective by contesting Threats of violence useful as symbols of power Sense of community is ideal to strive … Continue reading Toward global political community?
Questioning ‘community’
Ajay Gudavarthy In post-colonial period, binary between community and modern retains as modern only community of nation-state with its homogeneous time others stand outside it in heterogeneous time Although community … Continue reading Questioning ‘community’
Beyond the state?
Trevor Stack Citizenship, as particular tradition of political community, typically has two dimensions: formal dimension: usually, how citizenship and attendant obligations are defined in some kind of law > usually … Continue reading Beyond the state?
Philosophical approaches
John Perry Roma case (addressed by PhD student) concerns loyalties etc. that like citizenship but not toward nation-state; similarly, unions (addressed by Sian Lazar) are in some ways similar to … Continue reading Philosophical approaches
Schooling in political community
CISRUL’s project on local schools began with our “Citizenship Education” forum in March 2013. Making “responsible citizens” is a core objective of the Curriculum for Excellence, which has been rolled … Continue reading Schooling in political community
A historical approach
Michael Brown What happens when religious institutions do not have a real stake, especially where political institutions are designed precisely to avoid them having a stake? In contemporary world, there … Continue reading A historical approach
Political community and constitution-making
Hanna Lerner Instead of getting into question of whether “the people” is prior to constitutions, here to distinguish thin and thick constitutions: thin: constitutions expected to limit government power by … Continue reading Political community and constitution-making
Introduction: Bodig and Stack
Trevor Stack Director of CISRUL and Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Aberdeen, and author of Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship (2012) and co-editor of “Citizenship Beyond the State?” … Continue reading Introduction: Bodig and Stack
POLITICAL COMMUNITY WORKSHOP 2013
Hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland Tuesday 25th – Wednesday 26th June 2013 Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk) Click … Continue reading POLITICAL COMMUNITY WORKSHOP 2013
THURS EVENING – WHAT NEEDS DEBATING?
Audio recording of whole Thurs evening session Trevor Stack (chair, conference organiser) George Frynas said this afternoon “what frustrates me is that no one is talking about the real issues” … Continue reading THURS EVENING – WHAT NEEDS DEBATING?
THURS AFTERNOON – GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Janet Stewart (chair) Raises range of issues, including role of universities with regard to oil & gas Audio recording of Downie paper and discussion James Downie Partner, Stronachs LLP Powerpoint … Continue reading THURS AFTERNOON – GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES
THURS MORNING: WORKFORCE – RISK AND REPRESENTATION
Terry Brotherstone (chair) Introduces session by recalling Piper Alpha alluding to comments made by union (RMT) delegate in Environment session yesterday evening: yes environment is important but so are “people … Continue reading THURS MORNING: WORKFORCE – RISK AND REPRESENTATION
WED EVENING: ENVIRONMENT RISKS AND FUTURE ENERGY
Audio recording of Toke and Edwards papers and discussion David Toke Reader in Energy Politics, U Aberdeen Powerpoint slides Oil price spikes are ruinous to world economy, as much as … Continue reading WED EVENING: ENVIRONMENT RISKS AND FUTURE ENERGY
WED AFTERNOON: PROFITS OF OIL & GAS
Audio recording of Hendry's presentation and discussion Charles Hendry MP (Conservative) Former UK Energy Minister 2010-12 Has found Aberdeen one of most inspiring energy cities Energy needs to be part of … Continue reading WED AFTERNOON: PROFITS OF OIL & GAS
WED MORNING: POLITICS OF OIL & GAS – THE BIG QUESTIONS
Audio recording of introduction and Harvie and Wills papers and discussion Trevor Stack (Conference organiser and session chair) Conference host: Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) … Continue reading WED MORNING: POLITICS OF OIL & GAS – THE BIG QUESTIONS
POLITICS OF OIL & GAS IN A CHANGING UK: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
A public conference held on 8-9 May 2013 at the University of Aberdeen hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) Summary of conference papers and … Continue reading POLITICS OF OIL & GAS IN A CHANGING UK: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Pre-conference seminar “Resources Sovereignties in Latin America” (Tues 7 May)
These are notes (taken by Trevor Stack) from the seminar held on Tuesday afternoon before the main public conference, which starts on Wed 8 May. Einar Braathen (on Brazil) Now … Continue reading Pre-conference seminar “Resources Sovereignties in Latin America” (Tues 7 May)