Key thematic areas include:
Governmentality and Technologies of Power – Explore how different forms of governing, biopolitics, and resistance work, focusing on neoliberal, postcolonial, and opposition dynamics.
Plurality of Authorities and Negotiation of Power – Study how various state, religious, indigenous, and community authorities share and negotiate power, highlighting mixed forms of governance and contest.
Religious Governance and Spiritual Authority – Examine how religious institutions govern, including different traditions and how they shape morality and social roles.
Indigenous Governance Systems – Study the leadership and practices of indigenous governance in resource use, rights, working with the state, cultural renewal, and ritual.
State-Society Relations and Everyday Politics – Analyze how states and societies interact, including the roles of civil society, local participation, and everyday resistance.
Public Policy and Institutional Reform – Focus on how policies and institutions adapt to diversity, including design, reform, translation, and evaluation.
Contemporary Governmentality and Global Issues – Consider government responses to digital, health, migration, security, global changes, and radical movements today.
