We are reading Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), Introduction and Chapter 1. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
This event is co-sponsored by GenderED and RaceED. Participants will reflect on what decolonising research involves from within their own disciplines, focusing on the challenges such efforts face. They will also comment on the risks associated with a discourse of decolonising research if it becomes de-coupled from discussions about material redistribution, reparations, and […]
Whether in the growing gap between the rulers and the ruled, the decline of electoral participation, the rise of populism or the loss of confidence in democratic institutions, signs of the dysfunction of representative democracy proliferate across the globe. In response, scholars and activists have put forward various proposals to […]
Recording of the launch of Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care (Stanford University Press, 2022) by Mihaela Mihai. Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia The event featured: Joseph Winters, Duke University David Sorfa, Edinburgh University Peter Davies, Edinburgh University Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh University The recording of the Event is available […]
These virtual roundtables, organised by Mathias Thaler (Politics and IR, Edinburgh) and Davina Cooper (Law School, King’s College), will be run as informal, open conversations on the relationship between utopian thinking and practice, on the one hand, and failure, on the other. Programme 17th of March – 9:30-11:30am GMT Sixtine Van Outryve d’Ydewalle: This […]
This is a pre-read, virtual seminar with Hanna Schuebel (Environmental Humanities, University of Fribourg, Switzerland). Hanna is presenting a draft paper in which she develops an account of individuals’ responsibilities to remove carbon from the atmosphere with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. The upscaling of CDR to reach states’ net-zero […]
We are reading Jacques Rancière (2008), The Emancipated Spectator. For this second engagement with the text, we will be discussing chapters 3,4 and 5. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
A DELC-CRITIQUE seminar with Dario Gentili on his latest book, The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government (Verso, 2021). Gentili explores the question: if crisis is the norm, how do we demand change? He identifies precariousness as the form of life that characterises crisis understood as […]
This conversation took place following Prof Gardiner’s virtual visit to Edinburgh University in September 2021. Members of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group, Joseph Conrad, Grace Garland, and Talia Shoval, asked Prof Gardiner about moral corruption, the recent COP26 event in Glasgow, non-anthropocentric dimensions of climate justice, and the public role of […]
This roundtable event took place on 17 November 2021 and was an initiative of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group. The roundtable drew out insights from scholars and educators who share an interest in ecological strategies of learning, teaching, and writing. The conversation also explored the potential for innovation and disruption contained […]
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