CRITIQUE-PTRG Lecture w Professor Danielle Celermajer (Sydney University) In a 1964 interview, Hannah Arendt reflected on the moment she turned from being a ‘philosopher’ to being ‘political’ and feeling responsible: bearing witness to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and people being “taken to Gestapo cellars or to concentration […]

Join us for a Workshop on Environmental Emotions, to be held in Edinburgh between the 24-25 of May . Participants will aim to build an interdisciplinary research agenda on environmental emotions and will contribute from a variety of approaches, from the more philosophical, to the creative, to the sociological, to […]

CRITIQUE Lecture by Jakob Huber (Free University Berlin). Event co-sponsored with the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law. In this lecture, Huber introduces a novel account of Kant’s global thinking, one that has hitherto been largely overlooked: a grounded cosmopolitanism concerned with spelling out the normative implications of the […]

CRITIQUE -PTRG Seminar (pre-read) with Matthew Festenstein (York). Writing at the outset of the Cold War and summarising, as he saw it, an important tradition in constitutional thinking, the American political scientist Clinton Rossiter states in Constitutional Dictatorship that “no sacrifice is too great for our democracy, least of all the temporary sacrifice […]

Join us for a CRITIQUE-CeSeR Lecture by Professor Rosaleen Duffy (Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield). A Political Ecology of Security: The Conservation Politics of Tackling the Illegal Wildlife Trade In this lecture, the speaker will focus in on the ways that the conservation sector has turned towards security […]

Seasonal Sessions are quarterly mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRITIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. The Spring Session takes place in the Meadows, Edinburgh, against the backdrop […]

CRITIQUE -PTRG Seminar (pre-read) with by Jared Holley (PIR, Edinburgh). This paper aims to critically reorient us to the received ways of thinking about solidarity today. Recent theoretical discussions of solidarity struggle to account for colonized peoples’ international calls to solidarity. While these theories capture some aspects of actual practices […]

CRITIQUE – PTRG Seminar with Dr Jemima Repo (Newcastle University). According to the autonomist Marxist feminist account of primitive accumulation, the twin processes of proletarianization and housewifisation are replicated in colonial contexts on racialised populations. However, settler colonialism does not aim to proletarianise the indigenous population, but rather to remove […]

What scholarly work is possible when violence is not repressed, not located at the margins of the state, and not even disguised by the participants? In Composing Violence (Duke University Press, 2023) Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, […]

Join us for a CRITIQUE-PTRG seminar with Cristina Richie: “Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction”. The carbon emissions of global health care activities make up 4-5% of total world emissions, placing the health care industry on par with the food sector. Safe amounts of carbon in the atmosphere have been exceeded—in part […]