In this Exchange, Dr Chad Damro (Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh) and Grace Garland (PhD Student, University of Edinburgh) respond to Dr Sarah Goff’s (Teaching Fellow, London School of Economics) recent publication, “The Impact of Trade Policy Decisions on Social Justice”, Res Publica, 27:59–76 (2021). This post comprises three sections: […]
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Recording of the virtual Author-Meets-Critics with Elizabeth Cripps, University of Edinburgh on her trade book, What Climate Justice Means (and Why We Should Care) (Bloomsbury in 2022), with commentaries from academics, students and activists. Commentators: Grace Garland, PhD candidate in Environmental Political Theory, University of Edinburgh, and part-time editor Pooja […]
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This CRITIQUE LECTURE was held on May 12th. Sara Rushing introduced her recent book, The Virtues of Vulnerability, and discussed what she calls “citizen-subjectivity” and how it can be produced within contexts of bodily vulnerability, particularly within mainstream healthcare in the United States. The respondent was Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Here is […]
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On April 28th, 2021, we held a virtual Author Meets Critics with Professor Duncan Bell (Cambridge University), around his book Dreamworlds of Race (2020). The respondents were: Menaka Philips, Tulane University Desmond Jagmohan, University of California Berkeley Jessica Blatt, Marymount Manhattan College Fabian Hilfrich, University of Edinburgh The event was co-sponsored […]
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This is a recording of a roundtable on the topic of Civil Disobedience, hosted by CRITIQUE on March 24th, 2021. The participants were: Juliet Hooker, Brown University Talat Ahmed, University of Edinburgh Jonathan Havercroft, Southampton University Alexander Livingston, Cornell University
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On the 25th of February, CRITIQUE organised a virtual Auhtor Meets Critics roundtable with Professor Danielle Celermajer from the University of Sydney, on the occasion of the publication of her book: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. Written in part during, and in part immediately after the Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 […]
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When you say ‘No, you can’t do this’, I hear ‘Change the World!’ Gisli Vogler, Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, interviews Judith Heumann on her memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2020). Heumann is a […]
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Louis Fletcher, a fellow of CRITIQUE, interviews Malcolm Bull on his recently published book, On Mercy (Princeton University Press, 2019). LF: On Mercy is an original and incisive contribution to political theory, but you are perhaps best known as a distinguished historian of art. Would you be able to say […]
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Maša Mrovlje, Visiting Fellow at CRITIQUE, interviews Alex Zamalin on his book Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia University Press, 2019) MM: Black Utopia: traces the hitherto neglected transformative possibilities of black utopian thinking and outlines how it can invigorate the politics of critique and resistance in […]
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Talia Shoval reflects on the ethical lessons not yet learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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