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’
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 don’t have same claim to political representation i.e. right to self-determination if do have political community then illegitimate to govern from outside, subjecting to foreign rule > … Continue reading International political community
