On the 25th of February, CRITIQUE organised a virtual Auhtor Meets Critics roundtable with Professor Danielle Celermajer from the University of Sydney, on the occasion of the publication of her book: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. Written in part during, and in part immediately after the Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 […]
In this virtual CRITIQUE Lecture Professor Stephen Gardiner starts from the assumption that we have reached crunch time for the climate and that this profound ethical challenge demands new institutions to address it. He invites us to consider a democratic possibility: that humanity should hold a global constitutional convention, akin […]
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard University Press). Part III. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard University Press). Chapters 4, 5 and 6. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Roxani Krystalli & Cynthia Enloe (2020) ‘Doing feminism: A conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Roxani Krystalli,’ International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22:2, 289-298, DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2019.1678394 To participate, please register on Eventbrite.
A virtual CRITIQUE Author-Meets-Critics on Chandran Kukathas’ Immigration and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2021). Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, however, Chandran Kukathas argues that the greater threat […]
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard University Press). Chapters 2 and 3. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard University Press). Introduction and Chapter 1. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Gordon, L.R., Menzel, A., Shulman, G. et al. Afropessimism. Contemporary Political Theory 17,105–137 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-017-0165-4. Email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk for Zoom link.
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Jedediah Purdy, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (Harvard University Press 2016). Chapters 5-7.
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