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 […]
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What makes an academic article a classic? By metrics, it’s citations. And while what’s considered acceptable and what might be accepted in top journals – as well as the sheer number of journals – has changed, the theoretical contributions of these articles have important and in some cases problematic legacies […]
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October 1st, 3-5 pm, LG.09 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub. The Magnitude of All Things https://www.themagnitudeofallthings.com/. A cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change, this documentary draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Commentators: Rahul Ranjan, Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Justice […]
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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 […]
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This year’s ‘Autumn in a Graveyard’ event takes place on 3 October 2024, 3-4:30pm. We direct attention to the season, the place, and frameworks for thinking and feeling them together. We ask: How can we think about our ambiguous belonging in the ecological community? In what ways do humans have […]
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Over the past few years, an increasing stream of research has explored how the rise of far-right movements in many countries was supported by significant fractions of dominant classes. Such research plays a crucial role in moving the discussion on far-right movements away from the concept of ‘populism’, instead putting […]
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CRITIQUE, the Centre for African Studies, the Centre of Canadian Studies and Lighthouse Books invite you to join us for a conversation with with Rueben George, Sundance Chief and member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation. This event will take place on Monday 14th October, 3pm – 5pm at the Edinburgh […]
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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 […]
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October 18, 1-3 pm, 2.13 Geography (Old Infirmary) Once You Know (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9430820/ Once you know is the intimate journey of director Emmanuel Cappellin across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse. His voyage into this uncharted territory is that of a whole generation turning to […]
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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 […]
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