{"id":904,"date":"2017-04-10T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/?p=904"},"modified":"2017-04-10T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:21:33","slug":"update-from-political-theory-reading-group-1617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/2017\/04\/10\/update-from-political-theory-reading-group-1617\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Political Theory Reading Group 16\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This academic year, a collective of staff and students have continued the Political Theory Reading Group initiated by Mihaela Mihai. We have made good progress: Beginning with Antonio Negri&#8217;s early book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/insurgencies\"><em>Insurgencies<\/em><\/a>, we then read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/twenty-theses-on-politics\"><em>Twenty Theses on Politics<\/em><\/a>, one of the most important books by\u00a0Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel.\u00a0This was\u00a0followed by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520204355\"><em>On the Postcolony<\/em><\/a> by\u00a0one of the most influential\u00a0African and postcolonial philosophers,\u00a0Achille Mbembe<em>.<\/em>\u00a0We are currently reading a series of texts by Amy Allen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pol.ed.ac.uk\/events\/political_theory_research_group\/2016_2017\/gender_and_progress_in_contemporary_critical_theory\">in preparation for her\u00a0visit the University of Edinburgh in May<\/a>. After this we will most likely read Friedrich Nietzsche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This academic year, a collective of staff and students have continued the Political Theory Reading Group initiated by Mihaela Mihai. We have made good progress: Beginning with Antonio Negri&#8217;s early book Insurgencies, we then read\u00a0Twenty Theses on Politics, one of the most important books by\u00a0Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel.\u00a0This was\u00a0followed by reading On the Postcolony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/jwi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}