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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lecture abstract: How do the contradictory demands of border walls and supply chains co-exist? These two political forces push in opposite directions. Claims to sovereignty try to establish territorial limits while globalization, by definition, is a boundary crossing enterprise. Yet, both are flourishing. Post-Brexit freeports and Trump’s border wall provide […]
Workshop Description When one walks into a room, one senses an atmosphere; political affinities and disagreements are expressed in more than words. The look and shape of things have long been understood as political. How can we extend research to include multi-sensory evidence? The stakes are high; the issues on […]
Lecture abstract: In his presidential address to a combined meeting of the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association in 1909, James Bryce, then president of the AHA, reflected on the relationship between both. History provided the data for political scientists who then detected general patterns in the […]
Workshop Description In this workshop we explore with Prof Khoury questions related to historical methods as they appear in her own work. In particular: how to provincialize Europe? How to write histories outside and against the colonial archive? How to take serious forms of knowledge and narratives that fall outside […]
The police response to protests erupting on America’s streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United […]
Workshop Description In recent years, critiques of Eurocentric social theory have proliferated. If is by now clear that conventional social theory is limited, tethered to an imperial standpoint and based upon the experiences of a small part of the world, how to overcome these limitations remains uncharted. How can the […]