Dates

October 15 & 29
November 12 & 26
December 10
January TBC

Where

Streatham campus
University of Exeter
Room TBC

Note

Colleagues in Penryn can join virtually.

Anyone interested in attending can contact sps-research-support@bath.ac.uk to ask for the contact details of the local organisers.

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As part of ESRC SWDTP funded Standing Seminar in Critical Theory program, the Exeter network is starting a reading group.

Reading List

15 October: ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’ in Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1944)
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29 October: Arendt, H. (1961). ‘What is freedom?’ In Between Past and Future. New York: The Viking Press, pp. 143-172.
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12 November: Fraser, N. (1995). ‘From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a “Post-Socialist”’ Age, New Left Review 212, pp. 68-93.
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  26 November: Bourdieu, P. (1998) Acts of Resistance: Against the Myths of Our time. Cambridge: Polity. ‘Job insecurity if everywhere now’ and ‘Neoliberalism, the utopia (becoming a reality) of unlimited exploitation’
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 10 December: Butler, J. (2001). ‘Giving an Account of Oneself’, Diacritics, 31 (4), pp. 22-40.
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January / February dates TBC

·         Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. 2016. Epistemologies of the South: Justice against epistemicide. Introduction. London and New York: Routledge (full access to download via library)  

·         Collins, P.H. (2019) Intersectionality as Critical Theory. London: Duke University press. Part I (online reading access via library)