Citizenship, Social Imagination and Collective Action
A research seminar series hosted by the Sociology and Social Theory Research Group (SSTRG) within the Social Research Institute at IOE.
The series provides a forum for rigorous theoretical debate of different modes of civic agency and participation in diverse policy areas such as migration, health, education, culture and housing. It focuses on the political economy of citizenship in the operation, legitimation and resistance of government policy, the construction of neoliberal identities, the emergence of new spaces of grassroots participation in response to the marketisation of public/social services, and the relevance of global social movements and activism to contemporary public and private bureaucracies.
These public seminars are free and all are welcome to attend.
There are no seminars scheduled at present.
Previous seminars
2018-2019
Mobs, Memes and Movements
A series of discussions examining contemporary social movements.
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2019 | Inaugural lecture | Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Kings College London |
| 23 May 2019 | Reading group New populisms: From the Tea Party to the Yellow Vests | N/A |
| 30 May 2019 | Reading group #MeToo, 4th wave feminism and identity politics | N/A |
| 13 June 2019 | Reading group Movements and parties | N/A |
2017-2018
Date | Title | Speaker | Resources |
| 27 March 2017 | Inaugural Lecture Performative citizenship: democratic and demagogic | Professor Engin Isin (QMUL and ULIP) | Transcript available on request from convenor |
| 8 May 2017 | Everyday bordering as a new citizenship duty | Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London) | |
| 30 May 2017 | Citizenship-as-practice: 'movement social learning' on Twitter in the UK People's Assembly Against Austerity | Dr Dan Mercea (City, University of London) | Presentation available on request from convenor |
| 22 June 2017 | Rethinking utopia with social movements | Dr Ana Dinerstein (University of Bath) | |
| 1 November 2017 | On the Praxis of Global Citizenship: Rethinking the World Tribunal on Iraq | Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights (London School of Economics and Political Science) | |
| 22 March 2018 | Film: 'CCÀ SEMU, here we are. Lives on hold in Lampedusa' | Dr Michela Franceschelli (IOE) | |
| 2 May 2018 | Dr Titus Hjelm (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) |
Series convenor
Related links
Image: Protest at the Brazilian National Congress, by Valter Campanato/ABr (Agência Brasil) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 BR)