School of Social and Political Science

Description

Collective Brainstorming brown-bag session – please feel welcome to bring your lunch

Hosted by Gwen Burnyeat

Colombia and Britain both held referendums in 2016 – in Colombia on a peace accord, in Britain on Brexit – leaving enduring identity divides, and fostering widespread narratives about each society being more divided than ever. Stories of Divided Politics is a new, five-year research project, anchored in political anthropology and drawing also on polarisation studies, that seeks to understand how people in both countries experience and (re-)produce political divisions through everyday stories, and how myriad individuals and organisations attempt to build bridges across difficult political divides. The aim of this session is to brainstorm with colleagues working on similar issues, draw on collective wisdom to think creatively beyond the original grant proposal as I set up the project, identify questions and potential field partners and sites, and explore avenues for future collaboration. 

To attend (or to express interest in ongoing conversations if you cannot make it on the day) please email gwen.burnyeat@ed.ac.uk