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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Please join us for a special session of Critique Reads, which will be held in collaboration with the Environmental Humanities Network on 4th November 2-3pm. We are planning to convene one joint session per semester, and this will be the first in in this series of reading groups. The two texts that […]
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CRITIQUE and Open Government Partnership Scotland invite you to a public event about changing forms of citizenship and democratic action. Everyone is welcome, but places are limited, so please register on Eventbrite. Time, date, location Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 4.30pm to 6pm 50 George Square, Room G.06, University of Edinburgh […]
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CRITIQUE Seminar with Professor Phil Cole, UWE Bristol. This paper examines the role of Political Theory in framing the forcibly displaced in a way that confines their political and theoretical agency. This confinement is caused by the way in which Political Theory is structured around the nation-state system of membership, […]
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We will meet at 3pm on the 21st of October, to discuss Chapters 2 and 3 of A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (Duke University Press, 2018). We will meet in person in room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place, access with U of […]
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We kickstart this year’s reading sessions on the 23rd of September, at 3pm, with a discussion of the Introduction and first chapter of A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (Duke University Press, 2018). We will meet in person in room 3.15, 18 […]
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Looking Back… Since its founding, CRITIQUE has brought together scholars from across Schools and Colleges at University of Edinburgh in a dynamic hub for ethical and critical analysis of urgent social challenges such as climate change, economic exploitation, racial segregation, gender oppression, and political violence. Deeply committed to methodological pluralism, […]
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CRITIQUE – PTRG Seminar with Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh University). Civic republicans are increasingly concerned about the problem of oligarchy. The leading approach in this respect has been a plebeian republicanism informed by Machiavellian ideas about class conflict, and which seeks to keep socio-economic elites in check by reviving the veto […]
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