Ahead of the Conceptualising Community conference and summer school, we are holding an online interview series with each of our keynote speakers, in conversation with a scholar from the Centre … Continue reading Conceptualising Community: Keynote Interview Series
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
Dr Elise Boyle Espinosa
Elise Boyle Espinosa has an interdisciplinary background which includes international studies and global development, and prior to her time at the University of Aberdeen, she studied and researched at the … Continue reading Dr Elise Boyle Espinosa
Political Community in Historical Perspectives
Medieval and Early Modern Workshop Fridayย 27 May, 9:00-18:00 Craig Suite, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library Speakers:ย Speakers include Professor Crawford Gribbon, Dr Ian Campbell (both Queenโs University Belfast), Dr Clare … Continue reading Political Community in Historical Perspectives
News
January 2018 6 Marie Skลodowska-Curie PhD positions at CISRUL The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Skลodowska-Curie programme, is delighted to offer six Early Stage Researcher … Continue reading News
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
Dr Hanifi Bariล
Dr Baris is currently a Teaching Fellow in the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen, which follows a role as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics … Continue reading Dr Hanifi Bariล
International political community
Matyas Bodig Believes that Aristotleโs โself-sufficiencyโ remains with us in form of โself-determinationโ something special about communities which can give rise to supreme power there are always other communities that … Continue reading International political community
Toward global political community?
Raul Acosta Theoretical points Political = managing collective affairs Contestation reifies political collective by contesting Threats of violence useful as symbols of power Sense of community is ideal to strive … Continue reading Toward global political community?
Questioning โcommunityโ
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 โcommunityโ
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?
Schooling in political community
CISRULโs project on local schools began with our โCitizenship Educationโ forum in March 2013. Making โresponsible citizensโ is a core objective of the Curriculum for Excellence, which has been rolled … Continue reading Schooling in political community
Political community and constitution-making
Hanna Lerner Instead of getting into question of whether โthe peopleโ is prior to constitutions, here to distinguish thin and thick constitutions: thin: constitutions expected to limit government power by … Continue reading Political community and constitution-making
Introduction: Bodig and Stack
Trevor Stack Director of CISRUL and Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Aberdeen, and author of Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship (2012) and co-editor of โCitizenship Beyond the State?โ … Continue reading Introduction: Bodig and Stack
POLITICAL COMMUNITY WORKSHOP 2013
Hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland Tuesday 25thย โ Wednesday 26thย June 2013 Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk) Click … Continue reading POLITICAL COMMUNITY WORKSHOP 2013
THURS EVENING – WHAT NEEDS DEBATING?
Audio recording of whole Thurs evening session Trevor Stack (chair, conference organiser) George Frynas said this afternoon โwhat frustrates me is that no one is talking about the real issuesโ … Continue reading THURS EVENING – WHAT NEEDS DEBATING?