Deer hunting, fiestas, and the people without history Led by Denisse Román-Burgos This is the second reading group in a series to prepare us for the Conceptualising Community conference in 2022. Are communities tied to a specific place or can we think about them as ubiquitous? In this seminar we will reflect on the concept … Continue reading CISRUL/POLITICO Reading Seminar – Community 2
Conference & PhD summer school Keynote speakers: Gerald Taylor Aiken (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford), and Bonnie Honig (Brown University) Applications now open until 15 February 2022. Please click here for more information about this event. Community is among the foremost political concepts. Coexistence, human or otherwise, inevitably raises questions about how this togetherness should be conceptualised and how … Continue reading Conceptualising Community
The CISRUL volume Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community explores how authority is entailed in different versions of citizenship and political community. Who or what claims authority in the name of “a people,” and to what effect? What kind and scope of authority is claimed? And who is held to be part of such a … Continue reading Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
Based on a forthcoming book Citizenship (Routledge, 2024), which has developed over thirty years, we will outline a critical theory of citizenship, with an emphasis on how citizenship institutes power relations and organizes the rights and obligations of those who become its subjects. Whether it is the question of the rights of animals, children, migrants, … Continue reading Engin Isin “Outline of a critical theory of citizenship”
