We begin our reading Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on April 21 2022, at 3pm. For this first meeting, we tackle the Introduction and chapter 1, “The Rules of Praxis”. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take […]
Wrapping up our reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), we will be discussing the remainder of the chapters, from chapter 6 to the end of the book, including the conversation with Bruno Latour. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read […]
Proceeding with our reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), we will be discussing chapters 4 and 5. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email […]
We are reading Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), Chapters 2 and 3. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
We are reading Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), Introduction and Chapter 1. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
This event is co-sponsored by GenderED and RaceED. Participants will reflect on what decolonising research involves from within their own disciplines, focusing on the challenges such efforts face. They will also comment on the risks associated with a discourse of decolonising research if it becomes de-coupled from discussions about material redistribution, reparations, and […]
Whether in the growing gap between the rulers and the ruled, the decline of electoral participation, the rise of populism or the loss of confidence in democratic institutions, signs of the dysfunction of representative democracy proliferate across the globe. In response, scholars and activists have put forward various proposals to […]
With this interdisciplinary book, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded from such histories’ cast of characters? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present? Building on insights from political theory, social epistemology, and feminist […]
These virtual roundtables, organised by Mathias Thaler (Politics and IR, Edinburgh) and Davina Cooper (Law School, King’s College), will be run as informal, open conversations on the relationship between utopian thinking and practice, on the one hand, and failure, on the other. Programme 17th of March – 9:30-11:30am GMT Sixtine Van Outryve d’Ydewalle: This […]
Virtual event hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, CRITIQUE, and the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with Newcastle University and Social Research at the Scottish Government. A new generation of democratic innovations is proliferating in Scotland since the turn of the century, […]
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