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 democratic states and in other ways not (we still need a passport from states) Early Christians refuse to accept Emperor is divine but pay taxes etc. > … Continue reading Philosophical approaches
Forum hosted by CISRUL on Thursday 13 March 5.45 - 7.30 pm Topic In 2013 Mexico signed into law an important though controversial set of structural reforms, one of which opens the way for foreign companies to profit from Mexico’s oil holdings. Articles in magazines such as The Economist have lauded Mexico’s reforms, and economist … Continue reading Whither Mexico?
Workshop Political Community: Authority in the Name of Community hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen Tuesday 24-Wednesday 25 June 2014 Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk) Please join the online debate which followed the workshop. Speakers (see below for summaries) included Margaret Somers, Stephen Tierney, Ajay Gudavarthy, Gurpreet Mahajan, … Continue reading Political Community: Authority in the Name of Community
Political Community: Authority in the Name of Community hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen Tuesday 24-Wednesday 25 June 2014 Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk) Please join the online debate which followed the workshop. Speakers (see below for summaries) included Margaret Somers, Stephen Tierney, Ajay Gudavarthy, Gurpreet Mahajan, Dejan … Continue reading Political Community Workshop 2014
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 in heterogeneous time is sometimes given positive value peasant or local presented as ethical antidote to anonymity of larger spaces Gandhi: face-to-face relations are more organic than … Continue reading Questioning ‘community’
