What makes an academic article a classic? By metrics, it’s citations. And while what’s considered acceptable and what might be accepted in top journals – as well as the sheer number of journals – has changed, the theoretical contributions of these articles have important and in some cases problematic legacies […]
Talks and Lectures Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought – CRITIQUE Book Talk with Tejas Parasher | February 14 2024 https://critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/radical-democracy-in-modern-indian-political-thought-critique-book-talk-with-tejas-parasher-14-february-2024/ Contested Knowledge on Migrant Disappearances with Maurice Stierl | February 26 2024 https://critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/contested-knowledge-on-migrant-disappearances-maurice-stierl-26-february-2024/ The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon – Book Launch with Adam […]
Book Launch and Discussion with Adam Shatz, in conversation with Dr Nida Alahmad, Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East Chaired by Rhea Gandhi, Phd Candidate in Counselling Studies Hosted by the Edinburgh Center for International and Global Law, CRITIQUE and the Project on Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives […]
Lecture abstract: How do the contradictory demands of border walls and supply chains co-exist? These two political forces push in opposite directions. Claims to sovereignty try to establish territorial limits while globalization, by definition, is a boundary crossing enterprise. Yet, both are flourishing. Post-Brexit freeports and Trump’s border wall provide […]
Workshop Description When one walks into a room, one senses an atmosphere; political affinities and disagreements are expressed in more than words. The look and shape of things have long been understood as political. How can we extend research to include multi-sensory evidence? The stakes are high; the issues on […]
Lecture abstract: In his presidential address to a combined meeting of the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association in 1909, James Bryce, then president of the AHA, reflected on the relationship between both. History provided the data for political scientists who then detected general patterns in the […]
Workshop Description In this workshop we explore with Prof Khoury questions related to historical methods as they appear in her own work. In particular: how to provincialize Europe? How to write histories outside and against the colonial archive? How to take serious forms of knowledge and narratives that fall outside […]
Lecture abstract: This talk approaches the concept of autobiographical archives – which could encompass different genres of literary, ethnographic, and personal narratives – as a politics of reclamation among UK-based Iraqi Jews who were stripped of their citizenship in 1950-1951 and the so-called Iraqis of the Iranian origin who were […]
Workshop Description Most of the memoirs written by Iraqi Jews capture a vanished past in Iraq, informed by shared political aspirations and demands for social justice. These autobiographical and nostalgic accounts often end in 1950-1951 when Iraqi Jews were stripped of their Iraqi citizenship and deported to the newly established […]
CRITIQUE and colleagues from the School of Health in Social Science invite you to join us for a conversation with Dr. Samah Jabr on mental health in Palestine under occupation. Dr. Jabr is a practicing psychiatrist in the public and private sectors in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. She […]
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