Online launch of the Contesting Governance platform

On 1 October 2020 from 16:00-17:00 the new IOS platform “Contesting Governance” will be officially launched in an online presentation on MS Teams.  

The Contesting Governance Platform applies critical perspectives to unravel how power is constituted and how it operates across particular institutional and societal fields. It addresses pertinent questions such as: How is state violence contested by civil society? How do citizens respond when they feel unprotected, abandoned or attacked by the state? How do people voice concerns and make claims in the streets, or in the courts? How do people negotiate their everyday needs and livelihoods when (private) armed actors control their material and social spaces, and decide their fate? What kinds of rules and authority emerge in places where state governance is weak or has ceased to exist?  

Interdisciplinary research and dialogue 

To address these issues, the platform combines the normative framework of law with the complexity that emerges from grounded empirical research and explores the tensions between them. Aiming to build bridges between international law, anthropology and conflict studies, the research platform finds newness and inspiration in interdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration, and teaching around concepts such as sovereignty, security, governance, violence, human rights, and legitimacy. 

Join the platform

If the Contesting Governance themes interest you and/or you would like to become a member, then contact the platform via: contestinggovernance@uu.nl.