Thursday 12th June – 5.15pm
Martin Harris Centre SL01
Professor Stephen Coleman (University of Leeds): "PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP"
Stephen Coleman is
Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University, and one of the UK's
leading experts on citizenship (among other claims to fame, he advised on the
establishment of the YouGov polling organisation). His recent research has been
preoccupied with cultural and performative expressions of political voice.
In
this informal presentation, Coleman will discuss how people perform citizenship
in their everyday lives; how civic practices are both inherited and
institutionalised and improvisational and disruptive. What do we know about
these performances of citizenship in various contexts and how can scholars,
across disciplines, develop new ways of researching and understanding civic
performance?
As with other
sessions in the Cultivating Research series, the presentation will be structured
to invite active discussion and reflection among all participants
present.
Stephen Coleman's latest book is 'How
Voters Feel' (CUP; out in paperback in July).
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