A virtual Author-Meets-Critics with Elizabeth Cripps, University of Edinburgh on her forthcoming trade book, What Climate Justice Means (and Why We Should Care) (Bloomsbury in 2022), with commentaries from academics, students and activists. Elizabeth Cripps is a senior lecturer in political theory at the University of Edinburgh and associate director […]
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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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CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh, On Decoloniality. Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Duke University Press, 2018). Chapters 2 and 3. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
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CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh, On Decoloniality. Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Duke University Press, 2018). Chapters 2 and 3. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
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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, ont he 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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In this virtual CRITIQUE Lecture Professor Stephen Gardiner starts from the assumption that we have reached crunch time for the climate and that this profound ethical challenge demands new institutions to address it. He invites us to consider a democratic possibility: that humanity should hold a global constitutional convention, akin […]
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CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard University Press). Part III. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
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CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom). Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard University Press). Chapters 4, 5 and 6. To join please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
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