Challenges
It often happens to me that the answers to my most pressing questions are actually right under my nose. This was the case for my research project as well.
Now we are all Champions
Today saw the launch of the Champions Network at the University of Southampton. The network is part of the raft of new Champions, including the iChamps we also welcomed the Feedback Champs, Sustainability Champs, OPUS Champs and there will be more. Further information about this will be accessed via …
Citizens may have never been enchanted with politics, but change and decline in public attitudes are observable.
Last week, Gerry Stoker presented two papers that introduced a framework of analysis for developing a better understanding of public disengagement with formal politics in contemporary democracies. Speaking at UCL, Gerry pointed out that whilst citizens may have never been enchanted with politics, new insights from research showed observable change …
Anti-politics: It’s not the economy, stupid; it’s you
In a blog for Public Policy Network, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker have argued that the rise of anti-politics in the present is not just a symptom of a political failure on economics, but citizens’ sense of being failed by a political class that lacks the competence and strength of …
Adriatic Without Borders
If you happen to be in Italy, why not pop along to the exhibition currently running at Castello di Udine? The exhibition, Adriatico Senza Confini, showcases cultural contact around the Adriatic Sea between 6000-4000 BC and includes work by Helen Farr on navigation and seafaring. It will be running until the 22 February 2015, see exhibition page above, …
Contemporary concern with anti-politics
Last week’s YouGov poll and official launch of the project stimulated discussion about the impact of public disengagement with formal politics in the present. The poll’s results were included in The Independent’s daily catch-up, whilst Nick Cohen suggested in The Spectator that our early research indicates the difficulty of the …
The Sea and Me: Public Event 22nd Nov
Saturday 22nd November 10am – 5pm Free This event will bring together researchers, local cultural institutions, and the wider public for a series of talks, workshops, and hands-on activities around the theme of The Sea. We’ll be considering everything from pirates to shipwrecks to sound and the sea. As a port city, …
Report of Initial Workshop
The purpose of this workshop was to introduce the project and to invite comments from participants to help guide our research over the forthcoming months. The workshop revealed an interdisciplinary concern with popular understandings of politics by bringing together political scientists, geographers, pollsters and historians In his introduction, Gerry Stoker …
First impressions
It was a sunny Saturday morning at the end of September around noon when I first made my way to Villeneuve. I decided to just walk through and take notes of what I was seeing and thinking: my first impressions.
Political disaffection is not new, but it is rising and driving UKIP support.
To mark the project’s official launch, and the 70th anniversary of a Gallup poll in July 1944 that asked: “Do you think that British politicians are out merely for themselves, for their party, or to do their best for their country?”, YouGov carried out a survey for us asking precisely …