2. CTPSR Matters, Issue 2
In February 2016 the CTPSR welcomes four
Commonwealth Professionals, Louis Acheampong
from Ghana, Eric Ngang from Cameroon, Jacinta
Okwaro from Kenya and Godfrey Tumuhairwe
from Uganda. All have significant experience in the
environmental governance from civil society, the
media, international organisations and the private
sector. Over six weeks they will meet researchers
and organisations in Coventry and across the
country to learn more about natural resource
governance and peace building in the UK. They
will also share their experiences, from working in
different African contexts, with colleagues across
the University. The CTPSR team will also work
with the Fellows to build networks and develop
further collaborative research. For further
information about the programme please contact
Jessica.northey@coventry.ac.uk or
Miho.Taka@coventry.ac.uk
CTPSR Welcomes
Commonwealth
Fellows
3. AHRC Innovation
Award Contesting
States of Desire:
sustaining LGBTQ
lives in refugee youth
In January CTPSR hosted the last of our creative
workshops to mark the end of the collaboration between
EJ at CTPSR, Churnjeet Mahn from the English Faculty
at the University of Strathclyde and a national
organisation working with young people from refugee
backgrounds.
The workshop brought 13 people to the Centre to discuss
race, ethnicity, queer arts and activism before creating
a series of collages, photo stories and films exploring
cultural and societal attitudes to race, faith and sexuality.
These images show some of the creative process from an
initial collage to storyboards. The final films will hopefully
be screened at a CTPSR seminar later in the year as we are
hoping to invite some of the participants to the Centre to
show you some of the films and discuss the process (not
least to show you what can be created in the blank canvas
that is IV5!). In the meantime sincere thanks must go to
Mike Hardy and the Centre for donating the multi-media
equipment and to Jane and Ali for ordering and
processing it all and arranging the logistics of the
weekend.
CTPSR Matters, Issue 2
International Studies
Association
Professor Alp Ozerdem has been selected as Co-Chair of the
Peace Section of the International Studies Association (ISA)
Conventions of 2017 and 2018. The ISA conventions attract
around 6,000 academics from across the world each year
and they are known as one of the largest gatherings of
academics working in the disciplines of politics,
international relations and international studies. More
information of the ISA can be found at
http://www.isanet.org/
Professor Alp Ozerdem has just
received a HORIZON 2020 grant
of 115,000 Euros as part of a
consortium that will be working
on Conflict Prevention and Peace
Building (CPPB) training. The
PeaceTraining.eu project was
selected out of 93 applications. Its
total budget is over 1.5 million
Euros and will be implemented over a period of 26
months. This is the first HORIZON 2020 grant for the
Centre so far, and we hope that it will lead to many more
successful applications.
A New HORIZON
2020 Project
4. Victims orVillains
The report Victims and Villains: Migrant Voices in the
British Media, published by Heaven Crawley, Simon
McMahon and Katharine Jones was launched on 2nd
February in an important roundtable discussion at the
House of Commons in London. The event was hosted by
Paul Blomfield MP, who is the Chair of the All Party
Parliamentary Group on Migration, and had excellent
contributions from Roy Greenslade of The Guardian and
London Evening Standard, Abdirahim Saeed, a British-
Somali journalist for the BBC and our own Heaven Crawley.
Rich debate followed with the audience of experts,
journalists, charities and civil society organisations.
Professor Heaven Crawley at the Victims and
Villains roundtable discussion, House of Lords,
London.
CTPSR Matters, Issue 2
The Guardian has published a piece on the findings of the
Victims and Villains report, published by Heaven Crawley,
Simon McMahon and Katharine Jones. Titled What’s
missing from newspaper coverage of migration? The
migrants..., the piece by Roy Greenslade provided an
overview of the study, stating that it ‘cast yet more light on a
subject of continuing public interest’. In the 24 hours since
its publication, the piece had received over 500 comments
and been shared on social media nearly 100 times.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/
feb/02/whats-missing-from-newspaper-coverage-of-migra-
tion-the-migrants
Supporting social
entrepreneurs in Coventry
Dr. Rose Narooz is currently
working on a new project focusing
on co-creation of a sustainable
ecosystem that supports social
entrepreneurs in Coventry. She is
working closely with CU
enterprise hub and is a member of
social enterprise steering
committee. This committee is composed of researchers, social
entrepreneurs, representatives from the city council and
different governmental and private supporting agencies. This is
part of a larger emerging study focusing on comparing different
ecosystem models across Europe and emerging economies.
She is part of research group which involves researchers from 6
different UK and European institutions.
5. Human Rights
Watch Summit
On Wednesday 3rd February Professor Heaven Crawley joined
Sabir Zazai from Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre (CRMC)
and Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian as one of the guest
speakers at a Human Rights Watch Summit on Europe’s Refugee
Crisis held at Dean’s Yard, Westminster. Heaven was asked to
CTPSR Matters, Issue 2
Institute for Social
Studies
Gordon Crawford presented a paper at an international
colloquium at the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) The Hague
on 4 - 5 Feb 2016. The conference was organised by the
Critical Agrarian Studies research group at ISS and entitled
‘Global governance/politics, climate justice & agrarian/social
justice: linkages and challenges’. Gordon’s paper, co-authored
with Gabriel Botchwey, is entitled ‘Conflict, collusion and
corruption in small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Chinese
miners and the state’, and is available on the conference
website, see
http://www.iss.nl/research/research_programmes/political_
economy_of_resources_environment_and_population_per/
networks/critical_agrarian_studies_icas/icas_colloquium/
global_governancepolitics_climate_justice_agrariansocial_
justice/
Gordon will also present his research on this topic to the
Africa Research group here on Monday 15th February at 3pm
in the Boardroom.
explain the geographical and historical context of the ‘crisis’ and
to provide some insights into why both the EU and individual
countries of Europe have failed to develop appropriate policy
responses. Afterwards Heaven spoke with Kenneth Roth,
Executive Directive of HRW and Vincent Cochetel, Director
of UNHCR’s Bureau for Europe about the MEDMIG research.
There will be further discussions regarding potential events and
meetings in New York and Geneva respectively at which the
emerging research can be presented. https://www.hrw.org/re-
port/2015/11/16/europes-refugee-crisis/agenda-action
6. Publications
Visual activism and
social justice
EJ Milne with Dr Sarah Wilson at the University of Stirling
has been published by Current Sociology: 2016, Vol. 64(1)
140–156
Visual activism and social justice: Using visual methods to
make young people’s complex lives visible across ‘public’ and
‘private’ spaces is available via
http://csi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/64/1/140.pdf?ijkey=Glg-
F53Q8xu6SqpW&keytype=finite
This paper came from an ESRC funded project ‘Young
people creating belonging: Spaces, sights and sounds’. For a
full pdf of the project report and research findings and for
a multi-media site presenting project photos, films, music
and sounds, please see www.researchunbound.org.uk/
young-people-creating-belonging
Much critical social justice research,
including work employing visual
methods, focuses on young people’s use of public spaces
leaving domestic spaces relatively unexplored. Such research
tacitly maintains modernist notions of the public/private
distinction in which the private sphere is considered less
relevant to concerns of social justice. However, UK crime and
social justice policy has increasingly intervened in the home
lives of the poorest British families. Further, such policies
have been legitimated by drawing on (or not contesting)
media imagery that constructs these family lives almost
entirely negatively, obscuring their complexity. Drawing on
childhood studies research, and a project that employed visual
methods to explore belonging among young people in foster,
kinship or residential care, this article examines participants’
often fragile efforts to find or forge places in which they could
feel ‘at home’ and imagine a future. In so doing, it invites
visual activists to reconsider their understanding of public
and private spaces in order to contest prevalent
unsympathetic policy representations of poorer young
people’s lives, to focus greater attention on their need for
support, and to extend imaginations of their futures.
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Dr. Bahar Baser’s article
“Transnationale Solidarität
innerhalb deutscher
Grenzen: Die Auswirkungen
der GeziProteste auf die
Diaspora aus der Türkei”
has been accepted for
publication in a special
issue on social movements in Europe in the Journal of
Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 16/2 . The article
is about the German-Turkish Diaspora’s reactions to the
Gezi Protests in Turkey in 2013 and how these events
affected Turkish-German diplomatic relations.
Migration from Turkey to
Sweden
Dr. Bahar Baser has also signed a book contract with
I.B.Tauris for an edited volume which will be co-edited
with Dr. Paul Levin and Prof.Hans-Ingvar Roth from
Stockholm University. The book is called “Migration
from Turkey to Sweden: Integration, Belonging and
Transnational Community” and it is expected to be
published in 2017. The book includes chapters from
authors who are based in Turkey, Sweden, Belgium and
the UK and it deals with various issues that have to do
with the integration of migrants from Turkey in Sweden
after the 50th year anniversary of the first wave of
Turkish migration to Europe.
German-Turkish Diaspora
