Politics beyond the mainstream research group
Further information
For more information about this group, please email: politics-beyond-mainstream@bath.ac.uk
About the group
Our group brings together members of staff interested in politics outside and/or beyond the mainstream, as well as those researching mainstream politics itself, its creation, defence and contestation.
Research focus
- Extreme/radical politics (both left and right)
- Terrorism
- Populism
- Euroscepticism
- Immigration
- Ethno-regional groups
- Alternative social movements and political organisations
- Race and gender
- Discourse and socio-political identities
- Radical political and IR theory
- Political participation
- The media (social and traditional)
Group meetings
Research group meetings
Our group meets on a regular basis to discuss impending matters and for members to share their research.
Reading group
Our reading group takes place every three weeks and is open to all postgraduate students and staff across the University.
Each week, a reading is set and discussed openly. The aim is to foster a discussion which goes beyond the hegemonic understanding of politics and explore different ways of apprehending politics.
To make the session worthwhile, it is essential that participants have read the texts in advance.
Upcoming reading groups
| Date | Time | Reading list | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 February 2016 | 3:00-5:00pm | David Graeber (2004) Anarchism, Or the Revolutionary Moment of the Twenty-first Century ZNet, January 6 | 1 West 5.101 |
| 3 February 2016 | 3:00-5:00pm | Slavoj Zizek (2015) On Greece: the courage of hopelessness New Statesman, New Statesman, July 22 Slavoj Zizek (2015) Thanks to the EU's villainy, Greece is now under financial occupation New Statesman, August 20 |
1 West 5.101 |
| 13 January 2016 | 3:00-5:00pm | Jodi Dean (2012) Chapter 3: Sovereignty of the People in The Communist Horizon, Verso | 1 West 5.101 |
| 9 December 2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Gabriel Winant (2015) We Found Love in a Hopeless Place: Affect theory for activists n+1, Issue 22 | 1 West 5.101 |
| 18 November 2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Glynos J, Klimecki R and Willmott H. (2012) Cooling out the marks: the ideology and politics of the financial crisis. Journal of cultural economy 5: 297-320 | 1 West 5.101 |
| 28 October 2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Chrisitine Delphy (2015) Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror Verso | 1 West 5.101 |
| 7 October 2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Giorgos Katsambekis (2014) Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: Responding to the Challenges of Kairos in Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today, Ashgate. | 1 West 5.101 |
| 13 May 2015 | 4:15pm | Peter Hallward (2005) 'The politics of prescriptions', The South Atlantic Quarterly, 104:4. | TBC |
| 29 April 2015 | 4:15pm | Alain Badiou (2010) 'Chapters 8 and 9' The meaning of Sarkozy, Verso | TBC |
| 15 April 2015 | 4:15pm | Slavoj Zizek & Critchely, debate on politics | TBC |
| 18 March 2015 | 4:15pm | Jacques Rancière (2007), 'the reasons for this hatred', Hatred of democracy, Verso | TBC |
| 25 February 2015 | 4:15pm | We are all democrats now..., Theory and event, vol.13, n.2 & Bob Jessop (2010) 'Cultural political economy and critical policy studies', Critical Policy Studies, vol.3, n.3-4, pp.336-256 | TBC |
| 22 January 2015 | 4:15pm | Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe: Socialist strategy, where next? | 1 West 5.101 |
| 11 December 2014 | 4:15pm | Panizza, F. and Miorelli, R. (2013), Taking Discourse Seriously: Discursive Institutionalism and Post-structuralist Discourse Theory. Political Studies, 61: 301–318. & Moon, D. S. (2013), ‘Tissue on the Bones’: Towards the Development of a Post-structuralist Institutionalism. Politics, 33: 112–123 | 1 West 5.101 |
| 20 November 2014 | 4:15pm | Colin Crouch (2004) 'Why Post-democracy', Post-democracy, polity | 1 West 5.101 |
| 16 October 2014 | 4:15pm | Peter Mair (2006) 'Ruling the void', New Left Review, 42 | 1 West 5.101 |
