October 18, 1-3 pm, 2.13 Geography (Old Infirmary) Once You Know (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9430820/ Once you know is the intimate journey of director Emmanuel Cappellin across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse. His voyage into this uncharted territory is that of a whole generation turning to […]
During the Cold War, many large-scale research projects were funded by US academic and state institutions in an attempt to better understand the ‘Communist mind’, often relying on in-person interviews with emigres from the Soviet Union, Korea and China. I’m interested in a specific genre of publication that emerged from […]
3pm-4:30pm on Wednesday 30th October in Chrystal Macmillan room 3.15. This is a pre-read seminar. For a copy of the paper, please contact tom.oshea@ed.ac.uk.
This talk is taken from Prof Bernard‘s book-in-progress, International Solidarity and Culture in Late Cold War Britain. The book addresses a neglected archive of literature and film from and about the Nicaraguan, South African, and Palestinian national liberation movements that was circulated internationally from 1975 to 1990. It situates this work in […]
This paper outlines the preliminary arguments of a chapter from an ongoing book project, entitled Before the Global Color Line: Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850. The chapter develops the notion of “capitalist racialization,” an analytic concept that captures the role of capitalist social forms in shaping the semantic […]
Workshop Description In this methods workshop we will discuss the insights to be gained from incorporating political economic analysis into studying the history of political thought, primarily though not exclusively around the political theory of empire. Readings Onur Ulas Ince, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford, 2018), Chapter 1 and […]
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 […]
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