Taking ideology seriously: An interpretive account of ideological experience (Jason Blakely)
Seminar
This presentation begins by puzzling over various longstanding dilemmas in the study of ideology, attempting to briefly clarify why mainstream political science has mostly failed to offer an acceptable definition of ideology. In the second part, I draw on the work of those like Clifford Geertz,…
Democracy and Citizen Engagement: A panel discussion about Australia and Ireland
Panel discussion
Democracy is in danger. Not only are some political figures interested in dismantling democracy, but more and more citizens are dissatisfied with democracy, are sceptical about democracy’s value, and question whether it is the best way to run their country. How do citizens in Australia and Ireland…
Network Governance for Urban Resilience to Disasters
Seminar
Abstract: As the scale and intensity of disasters continue to increase, building and enhancing resilience to disasters has become a critical policy and governance issue. Of particular importance to this topic is urban infrastructure resilience because infrastructure systems support the continuity…
Human migration, mobility and forced displacement after the Pandemic
Webinar/Online
Professor Alan Gamlen in discussion with Professor Tracy Beck Fenwick on Human migration, mobility and forced displacement after the Pandemic. Alan will be updating his predictions and questions from a paper published near the beginning of the pandemic, for the International Organisation…
A meta-categorical framework for relational policy theory: re-imagining the Multiple Streams Framework (Nick Turnbull)
Seminar
Tripartite theoretical frameworks and metaphors are common in policy theory. We argue that these frameworks have been misapplied, being construed ontologically when they are, in fact, categories of questions. The ontological reading generates a theoretical obstacle in presupposing an assumption of…
Vision and method in global historical sociology (George Lawson)
Seminar
Historical sociology is a long-established interdisciplinary field concerned with incorporating temporality in the analysis of social processes. Global historical sociology examines the transnational and global features of these processes. It is premised on two interrelated dynamics: first, the…
Access and Ethics in Prison Research (Farah Godrej)
Seminar
How do the requirements of “scholarly” research—including and especially ethics reviews by institutional bodies—serve to shape and constrain the access that researchers can gain to prisons? How does it shape the researcher’s engagement with their incarcerated research participants?…