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 […]
Workshop Description In recent years, critiques of Eurocentric social theory have proliferated. If is by now clear that conventional social theory is limited, tethered to an imperial standpoint and based upon the experiences of a small part of the world, how to overcome these limitations remains uncharted. How can the […]
Workshop Description In this session we discuss and learn to think of scholars as writers and to think of writing as a craft that must be practiced and perfected in community. The session will start by reading short pieces and discussing the writing experiences of participants, the question of accountability, […]
In this pre-red seminar, Prof Inés Valdez (John’s Hopkins) will discuss her paper ‘Dependent Capitalism and the Paradox of Democratic Founding’. Abstract: This paper presents a novel account of the paradox of postcolonial founding. Building upon Marxist dependency theorists Vania Bambirra, Ruy Mauro Marini, and Alvaro López, I diagnose a […]
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP) theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez (Johns Hopkins) expands on racial capitalism by […]
What does freedom mean without, and despite, the state? In Resisting Racial Capitalism: an Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press 2024), political theorist Ida Danewid (Sussex), argues that state power is central to racial capitalism’s violent regimes of extraction and accumulation. Tracing the global histories of four technologies of […]
This CRITIQUE Special Seminar Series is dedicated to the political thought of James Tully. ‘Series A’ runs Thursdays (October 5, 12, 19). It will focus on Prof Tully’s forthcoming book, Dialogue and Decolonization. ‘Series B’ runs Fridays (October 6, 13, 20). For these sessions, we will be joined by guest […]
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