Research
The research activity of CRISPI is organised around three workstreams:
- The study of political ideologies
- The history of political thought
- Contemporary political philosophy and normative theory
The idea of political theory ‘in the vernacular’ ties these separate streams together and provides a platform for research collaboration, institutional identity and the generation of impact.
Projects undertaken by members of CRISPI
Funder: British Academy
Principal Investigator: Dr Blake Ewing
Duration: June 2024-December 2025
Focusing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this interdisciplinary project examines the relationship between voice, land and power in different cultural and epistemological traditions.
This project aims to promote the revaluation of marginalised voices, demonstrate the importance of Indigenous knowledge for climate action, and improve understanding of locally-specific histories and cultures of voice and knowledge.
Funder: British Academy
Principal Investigator: Dr Blake Ewing
Duration: June 2024-December 2025
Working with international collaborators in the humanities, ‘Wetland Times’ explores the different times and temporalities of three wetland landscapes — ‘mapping’ the different natural and human times in the area — and how they interact and are increasingly impacted by climate change.
Funder: Mercatus
PI: Dr Hugo Drochon
Duration: Ends September 2023
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen both reject the left-right divide in French politics, either claiming to incarnate it 'en même temps', or being beyond it. They propose new oppositions: for Macron, progressives vs. reactionaries, for Le Pen, patriots vs. globalists. Both refuse to acknowledge the other's new framework or their respective place in it. What consequences for our understanding of history and contemporary politics of seeing political dynamics not through a left/right divide but a centre/extremes one?
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council Impact Accelerator Account
PI: Professor Mathew Humphrey
Duration: January - June 2022
Professor Mathew Humphrey collaborates with the Motorcycle Action Group and RideTo Motorcycle Training on this impact project to understand the motivations and aspirations of new riders of powered two-wheel (PTW) transport.
Funder: Institute for Human Studies
PI: Dr Hugo Drochon; Co investigators: Professor Maiken Umbach and Dr Annemarie Walter
Duration: Ends August 2023
This project seeks to develop the first scientifically validated questionnaire to correctly measure levels of antisemitism in the US and the UK, to better understand it so as to better combat it.
Funder: British Academy
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen McCabe
Duration: February 2023-January 2024
This project is a British Academy Innovation Fellowship in partnership with Karma Nirvana, a leading charity who run the national helpline for honour-based abuse (HBA). It seeks to map key stakeholders who are, and who should be, collecting data on HBA; identify and share best-practice in data-gathering; recognise barriers to effective knowledge-exchange faced by stakeholders; and co-develop ways to overcome them.