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 […]
Earlier this year, CRITIQUE, RACE.ED and GENDER.ED came together to host a book discussion of Ida Danewid’s new book Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal. In this book forum, Hemangini Gupta and Jared Holley engage the book’s main arguments and Danewid offers a response in the final post. […]
Between the 1910s and the 1970s, an eclectic group of Indian thinkers, constitutional reformers, and political activists articulated a theory of robustly democratic, participatory popular sovereignty. Taking parliamentary government and the modern nation-state to be prone to corruption, these thinkers advocated for ambitious federalist projects of popular government as alternatives […]
This event is co-sponsored by PIR, CRITIQUE, and CMRN (the Citizens and Migration Research Network). Geographies of migrant disappearance emerge not only due to the physical disappearing of people on the move but also through the production and circulation of particular (non-)knowledges on migration. Based on interviews conducted with members […]
The police response to protests erupting on America’s streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United […]
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