Call for papers: Workshop on Citizenship and Identity.

Call for papers: Citizenship Workshop – Citizenship and Identity European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group  The intersection between citizenship and identity: Contemporary processes of differentiation and exclusion Workshop 7-8 June 2017, University of Portsmouth DEADLINE: 3 April 2017 This workshop seeks to provide a critical context for theoretical and empirical examinations of the intersection between citizenship and identity. Observed as the dynamic bond between a sovereign political community and the individual, citizenship is expected to shape community-building processes. The significance of identity in these processes cannot be stressed enough – it is, only, by bringing citizenship and identity together that ‘imagined community’ can

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What the audience wants: Audience research, race, and screen culture in postwar Britain. Dr Christine Grandy, University of Lincoln. 3/3/17

This talk examines the persistent reluctance of producers and shapers of screen culture to regulate images of ‘blackness’ for British audiences in a period of increased immigration from 1948 to 1978. Producers and regulators at a variety of organisations tasked with shaping screen culture in the period, including the BBC, ITV, the BBFC, and various film studios, were newly invested in imagining the responses of British audiences in the postwar period. These organisations, alongside NGOs such as the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, constructed audiences as impressionable and fragile when it came to sexuality, class conflict, and politics on screen, but largely unaffected by negative representations of black and

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CRaB Seminar: Reality or pretence: statelessness, nationality and organised hypocrisy

On Thursday 26th January, Dr Isabelle Cheng of the University of Portsmouth’s School of Language and Area Studies gave a talk about the notion of national sovereignty as an ‘organised hypocrisy’ (Krasner 1999). Isabelle discussed migrants, mostly women, who marry Taiwanese residents needing to surrender their existing citizenship if they are to obtain residency in Taiwan. Whilst this is not a unique situation, what renders it particularly remarkable is the lack of international recognition for Taiwan as a state (and therefore of any kind of Taiwanese citizenship). Such migrants therefore become, in effect, stateless. As the creation of statelessness for individuals is prohibited

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