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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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 main aim of the events is to cultivate a practice of […]
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CRITIQUE Lecture by Berislav Marušić (Philosophy, Edinburgh) on his recently published book, On the Temporality of Emotions (OUP, 2022). In this lecture, Berislav Marušić draws on the phenomenology of lived experience to identify puzzling features of emotional life and offers a distinctive approach to the study of emotion through a focus […]
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CRITIQUE Reads resumes on September 23rd, 2022. The schedule for the Fall term is as follows: 23/09/2022, 3-4 pm 21/10/2022, 3-4 pm 18/11/2022, 3-4 pm 09/12/2022, 3-4 pm To join CRITIQUE Reads, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. All sessions will take place in room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place. An exceptional session will […]
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CRITIQUE Lecture by Prof Davina Cooper, KCL: “Abolishing legal sex: The challenges, risks, and pleasures of prefigurative law reform”. Davina Cooper is a Research Professor in Law and Political Theory. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work focuses on concepts, transformative politics, state activism, and experimental communities. She currently directs […]
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