CRITIQUE Joint Seminar with Middle East Research Group and Political Theory Research Group Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh The Stale Grammar of the Settler-Colonialism Framing in the Palestine/Israel Context This presentation asks the question of the relationship between democracy, the Palestinian struggle for emancipation from Israeli domination, and Israel as a state […]
Wednesday 29th October 2025, 3-4:30pm Medical School, Teviot – G.03, Doorway 6 Seminar CRITIQUE and the Political Theory Research Group are holding a joint seminar with guest Prof. John Barry (Queen’s University, Belfast). This will be a (pre-read) discussion of his paper “Teaching and learning in a world on fire: […]
Wednesday 8 October 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building The aim of this working paper is to begin developing an approach to the political theory of solidarity grounded in practices of anticolonial solidarity. To do this, I offer criticisms of the two dominant European traditions of theoretical reflection on […]
Last year, CRITIQUE and RACE.ED came together to host a discussion of Inés Valdez’ new book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism. In this book forum, Michael Albert and Emile Chabal engage the book’s main arguments and Valdez offers a response in the final post. Reflections […]
In this pedagogical workshop, CRITIQUE will be joined by Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and Michael Simpson (University of St Andrews) to reflect upon their collaboration as co-authors of the national best-selling book, It Stops Here: Standing up for our Lands, our Waters, and our People (Penguin Random House, 2023). Rueben […]
This talk is taken from Prof Bernard‘s book-in-progress, International Solidarity and Culture in Late Cold War Britain. The book addresses a neglected archive of literature and film from and about the Nicaraguan, South African, and Palestinian national liberation movements that was circulated internationally from 1975 to 1990. It situates this work in […]
On 26 October 2023, CRITIQUE hosted a discussion of James Tully’s new book Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Bloomsbury). What follows is a transcript of Part I of the dialogue between Professor Tully, the book’s editor Professor Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, and CRITIQUE Co-Director Jared Holley. It has been […]
Parable and Politics: Martin Luther King, Jr’s Critique of Idolatry Alexander Livingston (Cornell University) Abstract Martin Luther King, Jr’s commitment to the claims of conscience has been a persistent source of fascination and discomfort for political theorists. Prioritizing conscience over law has made King an icon of civil disobedience while […]
Book Launch: Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth “The world-system of which we are all a part faces multiple calamities: climate change and mass extinction, energy supply shocks, the economic and existential threat of AI, the chilling rise of far-right populism, and ratcheting geopolitical tensions, […]
Special Undergraduate Workshop – Anticolonial Political Thought: Indigenous Political Thought CRITIQUE co-director Jared Holley chairs an undergraduate workshop that introduces students to some important texts and figures in contemporary indigenous political thought, principally from what is now called Canada. This is a special session of Dr Holley’s Honours seminar on […]
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