CRITIQUE -PTRG Seminar (pre-read) with by Michael Albert (PIR, Edinburgh). As ecological crises deepen, many scholars have challenged dominant practices of security by developing more progressive environmental or ecological security discourses. Others, on other hand, critique these moves by emphasizing the inherently repressive features of security discourse. This paper will engage […]
We will meet at 4pm on the 25th of January 2023 to discuss the Introduction of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T. Huber. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read […]
CRITIQUE Reads resumes on January 21st, 2022. The schedule for the Spring term is as follows: 25/01/2023, 4-5 pm 13/02/2023, 4-5 pm 28/03/2023, 4-5 pm 11/04/2023, 4-5 pm 02/05/2023, 4-5 pm To join CRITIQUE Reads, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. All sessions will take place in CMB room 3.15.
Seasonal Sessions are quarterly mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRTIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. The second session, Winter on a Mountain, will take place on Monday, 12 […]
We will meet at 3pm on the 9th of December 2022 to discuss one article and a lecture by Rahul Rao (St Andrews University). We will meet in person in room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place, access with U of E card. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss […]
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. No Other Planet (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Mathias Thaler examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. It aims to both […]
CRITIQUE is excited to support the European Caravan of Participatory Budgeting for Greener Cities. This series of events across Europe provides an opportunity for participants to share their experiences, testimonies, and doubts on green participatory budgeting, and to gain insights on how to implement it in their own cities from […]
CRITIQUE Screenings kicks off with Sorry to Bother You, (Boots Riley, 2018). The projection will be followed by a brief commentary and a Q and A session with the public. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a […]
We will meet at 3pm on 18 November 2022 to continue our engagement with A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (Duke University Press, 2018). For this session, we focus on chapter 5, “Denaturalizing Nature”, by John Law and Marianne Lien. We will […]
CRITIQUE Author-Meets-Critics with Nasar Meer (Edinburgh) on his book, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022). Event co-sponsored with RaceED. What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial […]
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