Externally Funded Projects
2010: Prof. Salwa Ismail
Award: ESRC RES-062-23-2283
Title: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Public Piety: A Political Economy of New Forms of Islamist Contestation. Funding: £216,360, 2 years
2009: Dr Matthew J. Nelson
Award: Membership, School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ).
Title: Religious Education and the Politics of Pluralism in Pakistan Amount: Residential Membership (Stipend: $50,000)
During his year at the Institute, Dr. Nelson will examine the relationship between religious education and citizenship in Pakistan. He is particularly interested in the circumstances that generate a 'religious' appreciation for religious, sectarian, and doctrinal diversity in the context of local schools and madrasas. (IAS weblink)
Award: Walter H. Shorenstein Fellowship (2009-2010), Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) (declined)
2008: Dr Stephen Hopgood
Award: Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship
Title: Empire of the International Amount: £132,203 (3 years)
The award is for a research project, titled 'Empire of the International', that looks at how universal norms are constructed, what limitations their advocates face in terms of persuading those who hold non-universal norms to replace them with universal norms, and how those advocates try to make their claims for the superiority of universal norms authoritative in the face of established religious, national and cultural beliefs.
Empirical work for the project includes analysis of the operation of refugee camps, the construction of the Holocaust as a foundational traumatic event for 'humanity' as a whole, the ways in which ICC-led international justice efforts can be characterised as 'show trials', and the memorialisation of genocides and conflict in terms of human rights atrocities. (Leverhulme Trust weblink)
2007: Dr Fiona Adamson
Title: Diaspora Mobilisation and International Security
Funding: £173,000. Duration: 1/9/07-30/11/09
This project examines when and why political entrepreneurs engage in the transnational political mobilisation of diaspora populations, and how this impacts on the international security environment. The project utilises a comparative and historical case study approach, analysing cases of diaspora mobilisation which have produced significant security impacts (ESRC weblink)
