Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Politics doesn’t just happen in parties and parliaments, nor does it only happen during elections.
We look at how politics is a pervasive force in our lives outside those spaces and times. In doing so we explore the everyday nature of power, its lived experience as oppression and privilege; we examine the importance of identity, its formation and politicisation and how these deeply felt modes of difference and similarity structure the contemporary socio-political landscape; we interrogate ideology and the way it takes shape in the complex networked fora of the digital.
In all these examples, the role of the media and the importance of culture are central, and we approach these core areas of inquiry from a variety of different socio-cultural locations and through a range of theoretical perspectives. Our research looks at the way social movements form and what conditions enable their success or limit their capacity to change society. We look at how critical theory opens a window on power relations: how they are formed, sustained and challenged. We ask practical questions about regulation and governance of these fields, particularly as digital technologies present new challenges for established models of understanding. We demonstrate the way that media and politics connect at the psychological and behavioural levels, but also how individual experience of political affect can be aggregated into potent collectivities.
Our research group draws on deep and varied wells of expertise in political science, cultural studies, media theory, media regulation, journalism, psychology, area studies and more. Individual scholars will often have expertise across more than one of these fields leading to vibrant collaborations and productive interdisciplinarity.
Network
Profiles
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Oliver Brooks
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Lecturer
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
Person: Academic, Teaching & Scholarship, Research Group Member
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Sally Broughton Micova
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Associate Professor in Communications, Policy & Politics
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Centre for Competition Policy - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
- Policy & Politics - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Alan Finlayson
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Professor of Political & Social Theory
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
- Policy & Politics - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Our Subversive Voice? The history and politics of English protest music
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/10/20 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups
Warner, H. & Inthorn, S., 1 Jan 2022, In: International Journal of Cultural Studies. 25, 1, p. 86-101 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Brexit, YouTube and the Populist Rhetorical Ethos
Finlayson, A., Jan 2022, Populist Rhetorics: Case Studies and a Minimalist Definition. Kock, C. & Villadsen, L. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillian, p. 81-106 26 p. (Rhetoric, Politics and Society).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Distributing Rights and Resources: The Cultural Politics of Popular Music Policy
Street, J., 13 Jan 2022, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy. Homan, S. (ed.). 1 ed. New York: Bloomsbury, p. 21-32Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Prizes
Activities
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Lecture on US Constitution for Melton Vale Sixth Form
Michael Frazer (Speaker)
13 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Schools engagement
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Critique, post-Critique and the Present Conjuncture
Alan Finlayson (Speaker)
25 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Invited talk
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Channel Talent 'state of the nation' session
Alan Finlayson (Speaker)
17 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Schools engagement
Press / Media
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Spoilt and unruly children playing dress-up: how the Tories stopped being serious (July 2022)
6/07/22 → 30/07/22
48 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Eurovision political song contest (May 2022)
19/05/22
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Norse code: are white supremacists reading too much into The Northman? (Apr 2022)
22/04/22
4 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media