One of our first PhD students to graduate from the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) in 2018, Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf, recently began a … Continue reading Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf Begins Role as Lecturer in Humanities Training at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
NGOs and the Law: Self-Regulation and Accountability – Inside Dr Carolei’s Book Pages, Event Highlights, Reviews and Endorsements
Former CISRUL alumnus Dr. Domenico Carolei, now works as a law lecturer at the University of Stirling (UK). He has authored a monograph titled “NGOs and the Law: Self-Regulation and … Continue reading NGOs and the Law: Self-Regulation and Accountability – Inside Dr Carolei’s Book Pages, Event Highlights, Reviews and Endorsements
Conceptualising Community: Practical Information & How to Apply
The conference will be held at the Old Aberdeen campus of the University of Aberdeen. This will be followed by a PhD summer school at The Burn, a country house … Continue reading Conceptualising Community: Practical Information & How to Apply
CISRUL Alumna launches Book with Pulitzer Prize Winner
Former CISRUL alumna Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf launches her groundbreaking book 'Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner' (Anthem Series in Citizenship and … Continue reading CISRUL Alumna launches Book with Pulitzer Prize Winner
Talking Legal Identity, Race and Belonging with Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf
CISRUL alumna Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London was interviewed by Women in Identity … Continue reading Talking Legal Identity, Race and Belonging with Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Publications on Education
You can learn more about our CISRUL member Dr Rachel Shanks' school uniform project here: Jasper Friedrich & Rachel Shanks (2021) ‘The prison of the body’: school uniforms between discipline … Continue reading Publications on Education
How some countries are using digital ID to exclude vulnerable people around the world
This article was written by former CISRUL student Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf and was published in The Conversation. The world has become interconnected at a level we never before … Continue reading How some countries are using digital ID to exclude vulnerable people around the world
Teacher Preparation in Scotland
Edited by Rachel Shanks (University of Aberdeen) Published: 25 Sep 2020 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Series: Emerald Studies in Teacher Preparation in National and Global Context This book charts the … Continue reading Teacher Preparation in Scotland
Radical Democratic Citizenship – 2018 CfP
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 … Continue reading Radical Democratic Citizenship – 2018 CfP
Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
Volume co-edited by Jeffrey Alexander (Yale) and Trevor Stack (CISRUL) for Cambridge University Press, 2018 forthcomingMembers of white nationalists are met by a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. … Continue reading Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
Visit of Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
18th - 22nd October 2017 Hosted by Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale … Continue reading Visit of Professor Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
Political Community in Historical Perspectives
Medieval and Early Modern Workshop Friday 27 May, 9:00-18:00 Craig Suite, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library Speakers: Speakers include Professor Crawford Gribbon, Dr Ian Campbell (both Queen’s University Belfast), Dr Clare … Continue reading Political Community in Historical Perspectives
How a group of Dominicans were stripped of their nationality and now face expulsion to Haiti
Original article here. Just because people feel that they are a national of a country does not mean the state necessarily agrees. While tourists flock to the Dominican Republic – … Continue reading How a group of Dominicans were stripped of their nationality and now face expulsion to Haiti
Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
ed. Trevor Stack and Rose Luminiello The volume is based on a series of CISRUL workshops, and will be published by Rowman & Littlefield International in November 2021, in the … Continue reading Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
Questioning ‘community’
Ajay Gudavarthy 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 … Continue reading Questioning ‘community’
Beyond the state?
Trevor Stack Citizenship, as particular tradition of political community, typically has two dimensions: formal dimension: usually, how citizenship and attendant obligations are defined in some kind of law > usually … Continue reading Beyond the state?
Philosophical approaches
John Perry Roma case (addressed by PhD student) concerns loyalties etc. that like citizenship but not toward nation-state; similarly, unions (addressed by Sian Lazar) are in some ways similar to … Continue reading Philosophical approaches
Schooling in political community
CISRUL’s project on local schools began with our “Citizenship Education” forum in March 2013. Making “responsible citizens” is a core objective of the Curriculum for Excellence, which has been rolled … Continue reading Schooling in political community