In a series of seminars over the next 2 years, CISRUL will engage with scholarly debates in history, philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, literature, linguistics, and legal, social and political theory, on how concepts emerge and develop, intentionally or otherwise, and what the consequences are. To begin with, we propose to engage with conceptual historians who have … Continue reading Michael Beaney on “Conceptual Empowerment”
Our workshop participants, after two days of fruitful discussions Final Conference Programme This conference on radical democratic citizenship marks the 50th anniversary of the global wave of protests in 1968, when people occupied workplaces and public spaces, collectively demanding changes in policies and calling for a shift in politics. Movements aimed variously to resist regimes deemed … Continue reading Radical Democratic Citizenship
Citizenship is often glossed as membership of political community, yet there is surprisingly little discussion of what is meant by political community and what membership in it entails. Scholars have often treated citizenship in liberal terms as an expansive set of rights, which citizens as nationals claim from states. Yet citizenship and the political community it entails need not be centred on liberal rights, nor nation, nor democracy.
