This lecture lays out the main theoretical and historical arguments of an ongoing book project, entitled Before the Global Color Line: Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850. The study reappraises the emergence of racial categories in nineteenth-century British South and Southeast Asia through the prism of “colonial capitalism.” I […]
Typically, anarchy is considered the opposite of a constitutional order. But the reality is more complex. This talk reveals that anarchists constitutionalise: they develop declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures to transform in the world in which they act. It also shows how anarchists theorise war to address the […]
Moral Marxism Or: Living Morally as Living in Caring Solidarity as Human This chapter introduces an ideal moral relationship drawing inspiration from Marx, care ethics, and solidarity theory. According to this ideal, the good life is one in which we relate to others in caring solidarity as human. This chapter […]
When theorising about the real world, philosophers and political theorists sometimes need to engage real-world information and empirical knowledge. But how can theorists accurately assess knowledge claims made by empirical disciplines, especially if the methods and approaches of these disciplines are unfamiliar to them? When should theorists take the knowledge […]
Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) will be discussing a paper co-authored with Danielle Celermajer (Sydney): As environmental crises intensify, growing numbers of people experience painful emotions – grief, despair, and horror – at ongoing devastation. While eco-emotions largely remain trapped within presentist and anthropocentric frameworks (i.e., they are informed by present humans’ […]
On 26 October 2023, CRITIQUE hosted a discussion of James Tully’s new book Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Bloomsbury). What follows is a transcript of Part I of the dialogue between Professor Tully, the book’s editor Professor Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, and CRITIQUE Co-Director Jared Holley. It has been […]
Parable and Politics: Martin Luther King, Jr’s Critique of Idolatry Alexander Livingston (Cornell University) Abstract Martin Luther King, Jr’s commitment to the claims of conscience has been a persistent source of fascination and discomfort for political theorists. Prioritizing conscience over law has made King an icon of civil disobedience while […]
Date/Time: Wednesday 12 June, 11am-12.50pm Place: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building Speakers: Nick Prior, Jade Jiang, Jingbo Ma, Angélica Thumala This seminar and workshop is the third and final event in the ‘Theory in Sociology’ series for 2023-4, hosted within CRITIQUE. The aim is to promote reflection […]
Book Launch: Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth “The world-system of which we are all a part faces multiple calamities: climate change and mass extinction, energy supply shocks, the economic and existential threat of AI, the chilling rise of far-right populism, and ratcheting geopolitical tensions, […]
Special Undergraduate Workshop – Anticolonial Political Thought: Indigenous Political Thought CRITIQUE co-director Jared Holley chairs an undergraduate workshop that introduces students to some important texts and figures in contemporary indigenous political thought, principally from what is now called Canada. This is a special session of Dr Holley’s Honours seminar on […]
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