Category: News and Events
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Personal News
I have been promoted to Full Professor (Chair of Political Theory) by the University of Edinburgh.
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Essay on Kim Stanley Robinson for Das Tagebuch (in German)
I have just had an essay published in the excellent Austrian magazine Das Tagebuch. The link is here: https://tagebuch.at/2022/05/visionen-fuer-einen-kaputten-planeten/
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First Review of No Other Planet
Prof Duncan Bell (Cambridge) has just published a review of my book No Other Planet. You can find it here: https://csgs.kcl.ac.uk/book-review/mathias-thaler-no-other-planet-utopian-visions-for-a-climate-changed-world-cambridge-university-press-2022/ A short excerpt from the generous and insightful review: “The extensive analysis of the meanings of utopianism in No Other Planet is the most illuminating that I have come across in political theory. This is in […]
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Essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books
I have just had an essay published in LARB. You can find it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rescuing-utopianism-in-a-climate-changed-world/
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Essay for Die Presse
My short essay for the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, on “minor utopias”, has just been published. You can find it here (behind paywall). A print-off is here.
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Paper Shortlisted for Best Article Award
My co-authored piece “Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics” has been shortlisted for the 2021 Best Article of the Year award in Environmental Politics.
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Upcoming Workshop: 17th & 18th of March 2022
Together with Davina Cooper, I am organizing an informal workshop entitled “Fail Again, Fail Better? Utopia, Memory, Radical Politics, and Radical Research“. This is a key output of my ongoing Leverhulme Research Fellowship. The schedule and description are below. If you want to participate, please email me (mathias.thaler (at) ed.ac.uk) and Davina Cooper (davina.cooper (at) […]
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New Paper in Utopian Studies
I have just had a paper accepted by Utopian Studies. It deals with an important issue, namely how exactly we should conceive of the practical aims of dystopias. My argument is that we need to think about both their warning function, and the underlying process of extrapolation, in a dynamic fashion. You can find a […]
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‘We Are Going to Have to Imagine Our Way out of This!’
The excellent blog Ideology Theory Practice has just published a post of mine summarizing some of the key arguments articulated in my forthcoming book. You can find the piece here: “‘We Are Going to Have to Imagine Our Way out of This!’: Utopian Thinking and Acting in the Climate Emergency.” Ideology Theory Practice (blog), September […]
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Multispecies Justice and Utopianism
My new paper on multispecies justice and utopianism has just been published (online first) in Environmental Politics. The link to the paper is here. For a pre-print, please go to my Publications.
Prof. Mathias Thaler 