From ‘Unjust Imperial War’ to the ‘Just Civil War’
Last week, we looked at the concept of freedom in Russia in 1917, and the effects of radical political change on the way that local communities and other groups interpreted …
Course: Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
How do people form beliefs? A view from Psychology
Richard Tunney was an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Since 2018 he has been a Professor in the School of Life & Health Sciences at Aston …
Consuming ideology: food, the body and the nation
In this film, Ian and Maiken begin our exploration of how ideology and propaganda travel into the most intimate aspects of our personal lives: clothing, eating, and sexual behaviour. The …
Imagining Nature in China
The recent revival of Confucian thought in Chinese politics emphasises the need to live in harmony with nature. In this video, Professor May Tan-Mullins, University of Nottingham China Campus, suggests …
The Wilderness Letter
This letter was written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Wallace Stegner in December 1960 to a commission charged with reviewing outdoor recreational activity in the US. Here, Stegner makes a …
Multi-Culturalism: The Opposite of Nationalism??
In this discussion with Maiken, Khairil Ahmad, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus, builds on his earlier discussion of Islam and …
Ideology and Mythology: Esther Eidinow and the View from Classics
Dr Esther Eidinow was an Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham. She is now a Professor in Ancient History at the University of Bristol. In …
Maps and the politics of the archive
In this film, Maiken speaks to Hayley Cotterill, a senior archivist at Nottingham, who talks about her professional experiences on why maps are produced, altered, and then either preserved in …
Ideology Studies: An interview with Michael Freeden
Professor Michael Freeden is a founding director of the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies at the University of Nottingham. Since 2015 Michael has moved on to hold positions …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives: The Approach of Sociologists
In this video Daniel Ritter, a former Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, talks to Ian Cooke about ideologies and their role in holding …
Freedom and politics: a difficult relationship
In this video, Maiken introduces different ways in which political thinkers have imaged the relationship between ‘freedom’ and ‘politics’. What is your view? Is politics necessary for achieving freedom, or …
Conceptions of liberty: an overview
In this video, Mat Humphrey, Professor of Political Theory at The University of Nottingham, introduces the classical distinction between ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ liberty: the freedom to realise your own true …
The Concept of Ideology in History and Politics
In this conversation, Mat and Maiken, joint directors of CSPI, discuss how the concepts of “ideology” and “propaganda” have been used in their two academic disciplines – Politics and History. …
Nature between Propaganda and Ideology
In this film Maiken and Mat explore different uses of Nature in propaganda and ideology, from Italian Fascism to contemporary environmentalism. Maiken suggests that its role is often ambivalent: on …
