The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law (CISRUL) studies the life in the world of political concepts. The interdisciplinary Centre examines how political principles function within and beyond the contemporary West. Concepts such as citizenship, civil society, and the rule of law are used as often by policy makers as by scholars. Core to CISRUL’s mission is informing academic and public debate on how they are used, and to what effect.
CISRUL brings together an extraordinary range of researchers, including PhD students, to study these and other political principles, including democracy, human rights and pluralism. We consider how they have been fostered historically, debated philosophically and in politics, fought over by social movements, codified in law, transmitted through education and the media, and lived out in everyday life.
CISRUL News
Audio recording of introduction and Harvie and Wills papers and discussion Trevor Stack (Conference organiser and session chair)…
POLITICS OF OIL & GAS IN A CHANGING UK: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
A public conference held on 8-9 May 2013 at the University of Aberdeen hosted by the Centre for Citizenship,…
Pre-conference seminar “Resources Sovereignties in Latin America” (Tues 7 May)
These are notes (taken by Trevor Stack) from the seminar held on Tuesday afternoon before the main public…