A research network based at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
What does it mean to be critical in our current situation? What are the basic tasks of critical theory in the twenty-first century? To what extent have past critical theories diminished in their capacity to articulate visions of emancipation via the transformation of existing social orders?
As a new generation of engaged scholars, we view it as an urgent task to reconsider the role of critical theory in our own times, examining the distortion of life processes expressed in terms of reification, alienation, misrecognition, anomie, ressentiment, subalternity, and beyond. How can we engage the traditions that produced these concepts to address the contemporary socio-political malaise? We are seeking to broaden the lines of communication between different currents of oppositional and emancipatory investigation: from postcolonial and critical race theory, feminist and queer theory to critical disabilities studies and critical ecology, from deconstruction and genealogy to the theories of praxis inspired by critical streams of Marxism.
Co-convenors
Sadiya Akram
is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan.
Robert P. Jackson
is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan, UK. He teaches political theory and the history of modern political thought. His area of specialism is critical theory with a particular emphasis on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukács.
Paul Giladi
is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan, UK.
Davide Schmid
is Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan, UK.
Critical Theory in Hard Times 
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