{"id":7,"date":"2018-02-01T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-critical-social-theory\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:56:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political action spans from fixing glitches in the smooth functioning\u00a0of the system to rendering the unthinkable thinkable. Our job is strictly the latter &#8211;\u00a0to discern available opportunit<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">ies for a less unjust world, and fashion arguments to make these changes politically thinkable and socially feasible.\u00a0Drawing on various trajectories of critical theory (i.e. as origin<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">ated by the Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and\u00a0the British School of IPE), our cluster of scholars works on contemporary social phenomena while seeking to discern emancipatory perspectives of social criticism, citizen mobilisation and political reform. The thematic scope of our research extends from religion to capitalism, security and development policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See Dr Azmanova in action at the Battle of Ideas conference:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Europe...boring?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yW4vwPMLJIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;.talking on Turkish judicial tyranny:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Turkey&#039;s Judicial Tyranny: Prof. Azmanova video support for academics in Turkey - November 2017\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQr-Zu8uO8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and at the British Academy:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/video\/albena-azmanova-idea-europe-and-political-economy-trust\">https:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/video\/albena-azmanova-idea-europe-and-political-economy-trust<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political action spans from fixing glitches in the smooth functioning\u00a0of the system to rendering the unthinkable thinkable. Our job is strictly the latter &#8211;\u00a0to discern available opportunities for a less unjust world, and fashion arguments to make these changes politically thinkable and socially feasible.\u00a0Drawing on various trajectories of critical theory (i.e. as originated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/critical-social-theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}