Transport Modelling Seminar Series
Rachel Aldred has been successful as PI on a seminar series entitled Modelling on the Move: Towards Transport System Transitions? The application is in association with Aucklands University, Cambridge University, LSHTM and Oxford University. Six events will be organised and take place in Cambridge, Leeds, London, and Oxford.
French Post War Social Theory
Recent publications
Sage Publications publish new book by Professor Derek Robbins.
This new book by Derek Robbins, Professor of International Social Theory in the School of Law and Social Sciences, is entitled: French Post War Social Theory: International Knowledge Transfer. It is original in attempting to analyse the process of trans-national transfer of social science concepts between cultures. Although it concentrates on the transfer of ideas from France to England, it raises wider questions about the applicability of eurocentric social science in a global context. Further details
National Belonging and Everyday Life
National Belonging and Everyday Life
Michael Skey’s monograph, entitled ‘National Belonging and Everyday Life: The Significance of Nationhood in an Uncertain World’ was published by Palgrave in October. Drawing on insights from sociology, social psychology and anthropology, this work addresses the following questions;
- Why do so many people take-for-granted the idea that they live in and belong to a nation?
- Do national identities matter and, if so, to whom?
- To what extent are processes of globalisation undermining or reinforcing attachments to the nation?
Through an examination of the views and attitudes of a group that has been overlooked in much of the recent literature, the ethnic majority, Skey demonstrates the link between a more settled sense of national belonging and claims to key material and psycho-social resources.
By analysing what is at stake for the majority, the book offers a more complete understanding of recent controversies over immigration, multiculturalism and community cohesion in Western settings, as well as a framework for theorising the significance of nationhood in the contemporary era.
Find out more or contact Dr Skey; read a sample chapter
