Mathias Thaler

Professor of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh

Category: News and Events

  • 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…

  • ‘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…

  • 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.

  • And Another One…

    The second paper coming out of a collaborative process with colleagues in Australia and Canada has just appeared, online first in WIREs Climate Change. The link to the published paper is here. For a pre-print, check my Publications.

  • New Co-Authored Paper

    My new co-authored paper, which is the result of a research stay at the University of Sydney in 2019, has just been published (online first) in Environmental Politics. The link to the paper is here.

  • Book Contract

    I have just signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish my forthcoming book on utopias in the Anthropocene. The book will hopefully appear in late 2021/early 2022.

  • New Edited Book

    My new book, edited with Mihaela Mihai, has just been published. You can find it here: Political Violence and the Imagination: Complicity, Memory and Resistance. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2020.

  • New Role

    As of mid-June 2020, I serve as Co-Director of Research in the School of Social and Political Science. This job is shared with Prof Toby Kelly.

  • Manuscript Workshop

    CRITIQUE, the new research centre in the School of Social and Political Science, will be hosting a workshop around my ongoing manuscript dedicated to utopias in the Anthropocene. Commentators include Prof Neil Walker (Law), Prof Elizabeth Bomberg (Politics and International Relations) and Andy Hom (Politics and International Relations). The event will take place online, on…

  • New Project

    I have been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project entitled “Utopias in the Anthropocene”. Work on this project will start in earnest in 2021.