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RESEARCH GROUPS & CLUSTERS:
- Subjectivity and Psychosocial Research Group (chair V Walkerdine; previously Culture/Subject/Economy)
- Social Theory Forum (chair W Housley & J Latimer)
- Medicine and Society Research Cluster (chair J Latimer)
- Post-human Theory Cluster (chair J Latimer & M Miele/CPLAN)
- Childhood Research Group (chair S Holland & E Renold)
CURRENT PROJECTS:
- Growing older in the age of anti-ageing science & medicine
- Caring in technologically mediated kinship, relationality and affect
- Politics of matter – Ontology and justice after constructivism
- Researching affect
- Precarious working conditions in technoscience
- Human & non-human animal relations
- Social movements in the sciences
RESEARCH TOPICS:
- Cultural, social and political theory
- Social and ecological transformations
- Affect and the circulation of identities
- Everyday experience: emerging modes of relationality and subjectivity
- Process theory: radical empiricism and constructivism
- Human, animal and non-human associations and assemblages
- Medical anthropology and critical studies of health
- Care: ethics, knowledge, science and technology
- Radical social movements: their practices and mobilisations
- Human enhancement: embodiment and exploitation
- Methodological innovation – ‘ethnography without borders’ – tracing stabilities and
- transnational transformations through tracking the local
ACTIVITIES:
The CIP research group meets every month through its lunchtime seminar programme and invited seminar presentations and events. CIP activities include:
- Invited speaker series
- Public workshops
- Reading seminars
- Development of research proposals
- Doctoral research students meetings
- Work in progress seminars
- Organisation of conferences and symposia
- International co-operations and visiting research exchanges
- Active webpage
- Public engagement with social movements, practitioners, and other non-academic institutions and persons