Dr Oliver Escobar, CRITIQUE’s Co-Director, is part of the team organising a Summer School course under the aegis of the Edinburgh Futures Institute: “Skills for democratic innovation and the governance of the future”. This short course, comprising two half-day sessions, will focus on skills for governance that can address systemic […]
Through the Civic Charter, hundreds of organisations and individuals are using their voices in support of Scotland’s Climate Assembly and the recommendations for action it has submitted to the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament. Join them! Sign up your organisation here, and share the news via the hashtag #SignForScotland. It […]
We are excited to share news of an upcoming online festival, ‘Bridging the Void’, exploring the challenges of life beyond crime and punishment. The festival is the culmination of a four-year project in which CRITIQUE Co-Director Dr Oliver Escobar was one of four Co-Investigators, in partnership with Glasgow University (Principal […]
Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism 14th August – 16th October, Glasgow Women’s Library. How have individuals and collectives imagined alternative ways of living and organising? Inspired by our communities and collections, Life Support considers how artists and activists have addressed and challenged experiences of care, health, education, housing and home […]
Critique’s Kieran Oberman secured a contract (Oxford University Press) for a monograph entitled Immigration is a Human Right. Congratulations!
CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group has just been formed as a student-led initiative that places environmental questions at the centre of its exploration of social, political, and ethical theory. In accordance with the three main pillars of CRITIQUE – ethics, critique, and praxis – the group aims to serve as a […]
Mathias Thaler was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project Utopias in the Anthropocene: Ways of Imagining a Climate-Changed World. See more information on the Leverhulme website
Benedikt Buechel’s paper ‘Beyond the State: The Moral Nexus between Corporations and Refugees’ was accepted for publication in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Professor Christina Boswell, Dean of Research at the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of Politics at the School, has picked up the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) award for best political science book of the year.
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