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‘Us and Them’: Developing open and collaborative citizenship/identity (networks)

13th December 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs, News and Events

Blog post by Dr Nora Siklodi, Lecturer in Politics, University of Portsmouth This entry provides a short overview of the key ideas presented at a recent workshop organised by the Citizenship, Race and Belonging (CRaB) research group in collaboration with the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Citizenship at the University of Portsmouth.[1] The objective of the workshop, entitled ‘Citizenship and Identity’, was to bring together papers addressing the intersection between these two issues. Citizenship was defined along traditional lines, as the dynamic bond between a sovereign political community and the individual, which is then anticipated to shape

Ahead of the Curve: The Contemporary Relevance of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

16th August 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs

A blog post by Ben Garner, Senior Lecturer in in International Development Studies, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth Earlier this summer I attended a 2 day workshop in Berlin that was organised to generate international responses to contemporary debates around cultural diversity and multiculturalism. There was a particular focus on the relevance today of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This blog post is a reflection on some of the issues that were addressed in Berlin and some of the lines of research that came out of

Invisible Presence: the Husband in Transnational Marriage in Globalisation

29th June 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs

Blog by Dr. Isabelle Cheng, Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth ‘Where are you now? I’m on my way!’ My eyes were searching for a figure in plain T-shirt and baggy trousers, so I was not sure, until she waved at me, if the woman appearing in a fitting dress and high heels was indeed Hồ Minh Mai. I had lost count of our meetings since our first, in 2009, at Minh Mai’s second-hand bookshop in this narrow alley in southern Taiwan. I could not tell, either, how many times I visited Ngô Xuân Phuong