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  • Political Community Workshop 2014

    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

  • Questioning ‘community’

    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’

  • Conceptualizing “Political”

    Workshop and PhD summer school Conceptualizing “Political” THURSDAY 13TH – FRIDAY 14TH JUNE 2019PHD SUMMER SCHOOL, SATURDAY 15TH – SUNDAY 16TH JUNE Hosted by theCentre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL)University of Aberdeen Topic The term “political” is generally used as loosely by scholars as by the public. This workshop does not aim to … Continue reading Conceptualizing “Political”

  • Decolonising Political Concepts

    With keynotes by Ritu Vij, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and a workshop led by Julie Cupples Topic Postcolonial and decolonial thinkers and activists have spent the last decades unravelling the intellectual, political and structural legacies of colonialism and ongoing coloniality in our contemporary world. Political concepts are part of these legacies. The way academics define and use … Continue reading Decolonising Political Concepts