Yearly Archives: 2019

Governing, knowledge and time: a governmentality perspective

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A blogpost by Dr. Marlon Barbehön, Heidelberg University This blogpost based on a talk at the SKAPE seminar on 27 August 2019  Time and practices of governing are intertwined in multiple ways. Political rule in general and its democratic form in particular are not possible without the temporalisation of processes and of institutional settings which   …Continue Reading


Democratising expertise? Lay citizens in the role of experts

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A blogpost by Eva Krick, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo This blogpost is based on a talk at the SKAPE seminar on 20 March 2019 In the SKAPE seminar, I would like to discuss a first outline of a research proposal that I am developing. It focuses on the involvement of ‘lay’   …Continue Reading


How British think tanks weathered the 2008 financial crisis

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A blogpost by Marcos Gonzalez Hernando, Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Senior Researcher at Think Tank for Action on Social Change (FEPS-TASC) More than ten years after Lehman Brothers’ file for bankruptcy, the economic and political fallout of the global economic crisis can still be felt. Its effects have not only been political   …Continue Reading


Beyond diagnosis? Shifting approaches in psychiatry

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A blogpost by Martyn Pickersgill, Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at The University of Edinburgh @PickersgillM The use of biological ideas and techniques in the study of mental ill-health and the practice of psychiatry is nothing new. But just because it isn’t new doesn’t mean that’s the only thing that’s going on in research and in the   …Continue Reading