Please join us for the launch of Dr Nida Alahmad’s new book State Matters: Theorizing State Fragmentation and Consolidation from Iraq, which is being published by Cambridge University Press. Dr Lucy Abbott and Dr Harshan Kumarasingham will act as discussants, and there will be plenty of time for questions and […]
We’ll be joined by Mara Marin (University of Victoria) for a talk on ‘Enabling Structures and Socially Structured Action’. This will take place in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 between 3pm and 4:30pm on Monday 22nd June 2026. Abstract: Discussions of structural injustice have proliferated in political theory. I argue […]
PTRG-CRITIQUE Joint Online Seminar Wednesday 22nd October, 3-4:30 pm Jan Slaby, Professor of Philosophy, Free University Berlin, Germany. Habits of Affluence: Unfeeling, Enactivism and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism In this online seminar, Jan Slaby discusses the role that a range of habits in affluent societies play in upholding as […]
Thursday 20th November 2025, 4-5:30pm Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 Reading Group – All welcome CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network are holding a joint reading group session to discuss Richard Healey and Angie Pepper’s provocative article on the legitimacy of keeping pets. This article argues that the relations […]
In this series, each month we will revisit a classic contribution to sociological theory, unpack its historical significance, and discuss its impact on subsequent and contemporary scholarship within and outside of the discipline. A faculty member whose work engages with the article or its subdiscipline will introduce it, discuss its […]
CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network will be hosting a special reading group session on Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel’s new book, Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). This will take place on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 from 3pm to 4.30 pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15. We will discuss Chapter […]
Critique and the Political Theory Research Group will be hosting a pre-read seminar with Alex Freer on ‘Schmitt, Romanticism, and Political Form’: Under what conditions is form political? The question has become pressing for literary theory in light of what we might call political formalism, a family of approaches to […]
During the Cold War, many large-scale research projects were funded by US academic and state institutions in an attempt to better understand the ‘Communist mind’, often relying on in-person interviews with emigres from the Soviet Union, Korea and China. I’m interested in a specific genre of publication that emerged from […]
3pm-4:30pm on Wednesday 30th October in Chrystal Macmillan room 3.15. This is a pre-read seminar. For a copy of the paper, please contact tom.oshea@ed.ac.uk.
Typically, anarchy is considered the opposite of a constitutional order. But the reality is more complex. This talk reveals that anarchists constitutionalise: they develop declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures to transform in the world in which they act. It also shows how anarchists theorise war to address the […]
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