Visiting Research Fellows
One Month Visiting Fellowships
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) based in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, is excited to announce two one month visiting fellowships between February-March 2012 and May-June 2012.
CSSGJ is a place which makes connections between the work, experiences and knowledges of those working to further social and global justice.
We seek to challenge geographical hierarchies in which the Northern academy and academic are given a privileged position in knowledge production over their Southern counterparts. We also seek to challenge hierarchies between knowledges produced in social movements and other community struggles and that produced in the academy.
We believe that by doing this we are able to develop cutting edge research and pedagogical innovations which are meaningful, relevant and of use for fostering social justice in our community, the university and globally.
Visiting fellows will have the unique opportunity to participate in this vibrant, innovative and politicized space. This opportunity is available to academics, activists, community educators and others who believe that they could benefit from a stay with us at the Centre and believe they could fruitfully help us to continue to develop our work.
CSSGJ Visiting Fellows will be expected to present in our seminar series, run a workshop for our students, write/produce a blog entry and produce a working-paper or other appropriate expression of their research time spent at the Centre.
Visiting Fellows would be provided with £1500 to cover expenses incurred during the duration of the fellowship, office space, computer, library access and participation in all CSSGJ related events and activities.
Interested applicants should submit a one page CV and case of support (between one-two pages) detailing why they are interested in participating in the CSSGJ and how they envisage contributing and participating in our work. Decisions will be made based on the written application by CSSGJ members and successful candidates will be notified by email.
Informal enquiries should be addressed to Sara Motta (sara.motta@nottingham.ac.uk) and Tony Burns (tony.burns@nottingham.ac.uk). Formal applications should be submitted to Sara Motta and Tony Burns by Monday 5th December 2011.
Previous Visiting Research Fellows
William E Connolly , Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Politics and International Relations, John Hopkins University, and Jane Bennett, Professor of Political Theory, Johns Hopkins University, spent a week in the School of Politics and International Relations, as guests of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, in May 2007.
The highlight of Connolly’s visit was the highly successful conference ‘ Pluralism and democracy: The 'radical pluralism' of William E. Connolly ’ with paper presentations that focussed on themes of Connolly’s work followed by his response. link to news page about the conference
Together with the Institute for Science and Society (ISS), CSSGJ organised the conference ‘Stemcell Identities, Governance and Ethics’ (14 May 2007) with Jane Bennett as the keynote speaker.
Professor Connolly is one of North America's best-known and most widely-respected political theorists. He is a former editor of Political Theory, arguably the foremost journal in the world for the discipline of political theory. His many publications include:
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Political Science and Ideology (1967, 2006);
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The Terms of Political Discourse (1974);
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The Politicized Economy (1976) (co-authored with Michael H. Best);
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Appearance and Reality in Politics (1981);
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Politics and Ambiguity (1987); Political Theory and Modernity (1988);
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IdentityDifference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991);
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The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993);
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The Ethos of Pluralization (1995);
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Why I Am Not A Secularist (1999);
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Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002); Pluralism (2005).
He is also editor or joint editor of The Bias of Pluralism (1969); Social Structure and Political Theory (1974) (co-edited with Glen Gordon); Legitimacy and the State (1984); Contestations, a book series for Cornell University Press; and Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political (2001).
Professor Bennett has written extensively on the relation Professor Bennettbetween politics, nature and ethics. Her publications include:
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The Enchantment of Modernity: Crossings, Energetics, and Ethics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001);
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Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and The Wild (London: Sage, 1994) (Modernity and Political Thought Series, Volume 7);
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Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment: Nature and the State in a Post-Hegelian Era (New York University Press, 1987).
She is the editor, with Michael Shapiro, of The Politics of Moralizing (Routledge, 2002) and, with William Chaloupka, of In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics and the Environment (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
Professor Michele Micheletti (Karlstadts University, Sweden), who is an international authority on political consumption, visited the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice for one week in November 2006 and gave presentations to CSSGJ students, the School of Politics and ICCR.
Her publications on Political Consumerism include:
Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action (New York: Palgrave, 2003),
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Politics, Products, and Markets Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present, (eds. by M. Micheletti, A. Follesdal, and D. Stolle. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2003 and 2006),
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"Politics in the Supermarket: Political Consumerism as a Form of Political Participation" (together with Dietlind Stolle and Marc Hooghe), (International Political Science Review 26 (3) (2005): 245-269),
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"The Moral Force of Consumption and Capitalism: Anti-Slavery and Anti-Slavery," (in Citizenship and Consumption, edited by K. Soper and F. Trentmann. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2007).