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’ […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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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This year’s Spring Session* takes place in the Meadows, Edinburgh, against the backdrop of the cherry blossoms in late bloom. Attendees are asked to pre-read two short texts, and the structure of the outing includes an open discussion, a solo reflective exercise, and contributions from an invited ‘provocateur’. Themes for this session: responsibilities to and appreciation […]
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This seminar is the second one in the ‘Theory in Sociology’ series, hosted within CRITIQUE. Our first seminar explored ‘Theorising the Digital’ in October 2023. This seminar proposes to examine the link between inequality and capital accumulation, how we theorise it in our work, and with what potential political implications. […]
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Between the 1910s and the 1970s, an eclectic group of Indian thinkers, constitutional reformers, and political activists articulated a theory of robustly democratic, participatory popular sovereignty. Taking parliamentary government and the modern nation-state to be prone to corruption, these thinkers advocated for ambitious federalist projects of popular government as alternatives […]
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This event is co-sponsored by PIR, CRITIQUE, and CMRN (the Citizens and Migration Research Network). Geographies of migrant disappearance emerge not only due to the physical disappearing of people on the move but also through the production and circulation of particular (non-)knowledges on migration. Based on interviews conducted with members […]
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Book Launch and Discussion with Adam Shatz, in conversation with Dr Nida Alahmad, Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East Chaired by Rhea Gandhi, Phd Candidate in Counselling Studies Hosted by the Edinburgh Center for International and Global Law, CRITIQUE and the Project on Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives […]
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