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Legislative Protests

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:22:34 GMT

See Carole Spary's blog on Legislative Protests and Democracy here .

New Book from GCRP Member Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:04:40 GMT

GCRP Advisory Board Member Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal discusses her latest book, Citizenship and its Discontents: An Indian History (Permanent Black and Harvard University Press, 2013), which has been published to profuse critical acclaim.

More information can be found here: http://permanent-black.blogspot.in/2013/06/niraja-gopal-jayal-professor-centre-for.html

Special Issue of Democratization

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:57:02 GMT

Carole Spary and Shirin M. Rai co-edited a Special Issue of the journal Democratization on one of the themes of GCRP - Disruptive Democracy, calling it Analysing Legislative Protest.

It can be accessed here - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fdem20/20/3#.UccBeNlwY5s

Open Democracy: Summary Papers on Aesthetics and Politics

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:48:27 GMT

GCRP and openDemocracy made an editorial partnership on Aesthetics and Politics. This emerged after the GCRP workshop on the Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest.

The papers published in openDemocracy can be found here -

http://www.opendemocracy.net/freeform-tags/political-aesthetics.

If you would like to contribute to this debate on aesthetics and politics, please send a short piece (no more than 3000 words) to Shirin Rai (shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk).

Taking GCRP Work Forward: A Workshop on the Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:25:38 GMT

Click here for the full workshop programme

The Final GCRP Conference

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:47:28 GMT

October 28th and 29th 2011

House of Lords and The British Library

Click here for Conference Programme

Political Ceremony Workshop - University of Sheffield June 7 2011

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:57:16 GMT

'Political Ceremony', is a one-day GCRP workshop to be held on Tuesday 7th June 2011

(10:30am- 4:15pm)in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield, S10 2TU.

If you wish to attend please send all your RSVPs and enquiries to Rachel Johnson, postdoctoral fellow at Sheffield University on r.e.johnson@sheffield.ac.uk.

Click here for workshop statement and programme.

The Journal of Legislative Studies, Volume 16 Issue 3 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:45:09 GMT

The special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies is now out and can be accessed here. The issue includes articles contributed by various members of the GCRP programme.

South Africa Research Trip

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:44:23 GMT

Professors Shirin Rai and Georgina Waylen recently returned from a field trip to South Africa. A brief report by Professor Rai is available here.

Disruptive Democracy: a one day workshop

Thu, 27 May 2010 12:01:49 GMT

The one day workshop 'Disruptive Democracy: Analysing legislative protest in contemporary legislatures' will take place at the ��ӰƬ on Friday 19 November 2010.