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 […]
CRITIQUE-GenderEd Seminar Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Eco-Feminism in Conversation with Degrowth with Professor Sherilyn MacGregor (University of Manchester). This seminar explores the theoretical and practical implications of bringing ecological feminism into conversation with degrowth. The speaker will explain how insights from eco-feminist political economy (EPE), a field with a long […]
Event co-sponsored by the Centre of African Studies (CAS), Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought (CRITIQUE), Edinburgh Law School, Race.ED, and the Race and Inclusivity in Global Education Network (RIGEN). We are delighted to invite you to this book launch event at the University of Edinburgh, exploring and celebrating the […]
CRITIQUE -PTRG Seminar (pre-read) with by Michael Albert (PIR, Edinburgh). As ecological crises deepen, many scholars have challenged dominant practices of security by developing more progressive environmental or ecological security discourses. Others, on other hand, critique these moves by emphasizing the inherently repressive features of security discourse. This paper will engage […]