We will meet at 3pm on the 9th of December 2022 to discuss one article and a lecture by Rahul Rao (St Andrews University). We will meet in person in room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place, access with U of E card. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss […]
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. No Other Planet (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Mathias Thaler examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. It aims to both […]
CRITIQUE Screenings kicks off with Sorry to Bother You, (Boots Riley, 2018). The projection will be followed by a brief commentary and a Q and A session with the public. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a […]
CRITIQUE Author-Meets-Critics with Nasar Meer (Edinburgh) on his book, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022). Event co-sponsored with RaceED. What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial […]
Please join us for a special session of Critique Reads, which will be held in collaboration with the Environmental Humanities Network on 4th November 2-3pm. We are planning to convene one joint session per semester, and this will be the first in in this series of reading groups. The two texts that […]
CRITIQUE Seminar with Professor Phil Cole, UWE Bristol. This paper examines the role of Political Theory in framing the forcibly displaced in a way that confines their political and theoretical agency. This confinement is caused by the way in which Political Theory is structured around the nation-state system of membership, […]
We will meet at 3pm on the 21st of October, to discuss Chapters 2 and 3 of A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (Duke University Press, 2018). We will meet in person in room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place, access with U of […]
We kickstart this year’s reading sessions on the 23rd of September, at 3pm, with a discussion of the Introduction and first chapter of A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (Duke University Press, 2018). We will meet in person in room 3.15, 18 […]
Political Theory Research Group Seminar Series Fall Term 2022-2023 All seminars take place from 3-4:30 pm. All are pre-read. If interested, please email critique_centre to receive the papers. Date Presenter Title Room 21/09/2022 Michael Albert (Edinburgh) PTRG-CRITIQUE: Abolitionist Ecological Security CMB 3.15 12/10/2022 Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh) PTRG-CRITIQUE For the Many, […]
Looking Back… Since its founding, CRITIQUE has brought together scholars from across Schools and Colleges at University of Edinburgh in a dynamic hub for ethical and critical analysis of urgent social challenges such as climate change, economic exploitation, racial segregation, gender oppression, and political violence. Deeply committed to methodological pluralism, […]
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