Dear Colleagues
Please find further details below:
Governance at the ‘edge’ of the State: political subjectivity and citizenship
PHD COURSE HOSTED BY THE SLU RESEARCH SCHOOL SOCIETY, LANDSCAPE AND LAND USE
Uppsala, September 12-15, 2017
Lecturers include:
Professors: Veena Das, Gabriela Valdivia, Christian Lund, Anja Nygren,
Andrea Nightingale, Seema Arora-Jonsson, Siri Eriksen, Mattias Rasmussen,
Benedikt Korf, Tobias Hagmann, Tim Raeymaekers and Koen Vlassenroot.
State rule is presently challenged in many parts of the world such that
governance is achieved by overlapping authorities.
The course focuses on the implications of these achievements for conflict,
citizenship and social inequality.
‘Political subjectivity’ captures how power operates to produce desires
for recognition, belonging, and rights, which all shape inclusion and
exclusion. At the edges of the state, these desires erupt in conflict over
public authority, citizenship and resources. The course aim is to equip
PhD students with theoretical and methodological tools to do research in
unstable political contexts.
The course will present debates on governance
, public authority,
with a focus on citizenship and political subjectivities. Examples include
natural resource- use and extraction, and environmental change, including
frontiers, territorialization, property and
Governance at the ’edge’ of the State, 5 credits
Time: August 15–September 30, 2017 (with lectures September 12–15)

Course leader: Professor Andrea Nightingale
Application before June 15

Students should submit CV and 1 page application explaining why they are
interested in the course and how it is relevant to their own research to:
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A 200 euro course fee applies to non NOVA students. For more information
on this, see: https://www.nmbu.no/en/students/nova/students/phd-fees.
> Dear Colleagues
>
> We are happy to announce the Summer School of the ‘edge of the state’
> network,
> arranged by NOVA and SLU, and co-organized by the Universities of
> Helsinki, NMBU,
> Copenhagen, Zurich, Ghent, and Roskilde.
>
> Application deadline 15 June.
>
> Please see the attached programme for full details.
>
> Kind regards
> Rory Rowan
> Political Geography Research Group
> Department of Geography
> University of Zurich
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