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 is a post-Enlightenment feeling that recognition is best we can do instead of accommodation: e.g. Martha Nussbaum New Religious Intolerance worried about European (vs. US) responses to terrorism > narcissism of … Continue reading A historical approach
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 for Focus on socioenvironmentalism in Brazil focus on sustainability, combining different forms of knowledge convergence of groups: NGOs, social movements, indigenous collectives Example of meeting to protect … Continue reading Toward global political community?
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
