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In this keynote lecture Jef Huysmans, Director and Professor of Security Studies at the Centre for Citizenship Identities and Govenance (CCIG) at the Open University, will revisit the relation between
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A Dale Farm resident speaks of his experience of being policed, in the latest interview in search of security from the 'Whose police?' series
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What images of citizenship are emerging in relation to the processes of decolonization and deorientalization? Speakers including Saba Mahmood and Walter Mignolo will address this question at the second symposium
Cynthia Weber reflects on the first year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Imad Mansour voices a plea for the role of intellectuals in the Arab Spring, Vivenne Matthies-Boon’s offers an analysis of the entrenchment of the ‘clash of civilisation’ discourse, while Sara Azmeh Rasmussen calls for Mus
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Three days of live music with an eclectic line up of over twenty African, Brazilian & international artists across 3 stages, including host Gilberto Gil. Featuring Macy Gray, Roots Manuva, Hugh Masekela, Jorge Ben Jor, Femi Kuti and The Positive Force, Toumani Diabate, Fatoumata Diawara & many mor
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