P R Conway
Biographic Data
| ID | 68745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P R Conway |
| GIVEN NAMES | P R |
| FAMILY NAME | Conway |
| SIGNATURE | CONWAY P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7039-7619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Repressive suspicion, or: The Problem With Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy culture cultivates suspicion towards the hidden workings of power. While some modes of suspicion direct critical attention towards the crimes and cruelties of oppressive social relations, other modes misdirect that same attention. When such misdirection serves to reproduce oppressive social relations, entrapping its adherents in the promise of emancipation, this may be understood as 'repressive suspicion'. Empirically, this concept is …
Who am I to judge? The six (or so) dimensions of critique
The Citadel of Scholarship’: Rediscovering Critical IR in Millennium 1:1
‘Critical’ international relations (IR) is usually understood to have originated in the early 1980s. However, a close reading of Vithal Rajan’s ‘An Epitaph for Detached Scholarship’, published in the inaugural issue of Millennium in 1971, tells another story. Rajan’s article was not a work of critical theory per se, but it was in tune with demands, at this time, for establishing a ‘critical university’. Promising to open up university education t…
Critical international politics at an impasse: Reflexivist, reformist, reactionary, and restitutive post-critique
Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations
The epithet ‘critical’ has become both coveted and contested. A long-established lodestone of personal, political, and professional commitment within academia, its meanings are multiple, and its histories are poorly understood. This article reconstructs an interdisciplinary history of debates concerning what it is to ‘be critical’, beginning in the 1930s but focusing on the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It argues the significance of the category …
The Folds of Coexistence: Towards a Diplomatic Political Ontology, between Difference and Contradiction
Between the affirmative and the negative, the compositional and the oppositional, we need to rethink the difference between difference and contradiction. In this regard, the concept of 'diplomacy', as developed by Isabelle Stengers, is of particular significance. Whereas many adherents of an affirmative ontology of difference reduce contradiction to a caveat - 'of course, antagonism is inevitable, but ...' - diplomacy makes contradiction its fund…
On the way to planet politics: From Disciplinary Demise to Cosmopolitical Coordination
From climatic chaos to mass extinction, from 'geoengineering' to unprecedented urbanisation, world politics has, in recent decades, become inescapably planetary. Recent discussions concerning 'Planet Politics' are, therefore, timely. However, the debate, to date, has been limited by a number of conceptual and political problems. In particular, an apparent disinclination to address serious differences as regards the authority of natural scientific…
Dismay, Dissembly and Geocide: Ways Through the Maze of Trumpist Geopolitics
Written in the still-unfolding aftermath of Donald Trump's accession to the office of President of the United States, this article picks up and expands upon some of the key points raised by Kyle McGee's Heathen Earth, particularly concerning the forms of political violence emergent in an age ever-increasingly defined by climate change and the strategies of analysis, theorisation and critique that these geohistorical developments demand. Much like…
The Folds of Coexistence: Towards a Diplomatic Political Ontology, between Difference and Contradiction
Between the affirmative and the negative, the compositional and the oppositional, we need to rethink the difference between difference and contradiction. In this regard, the concept of 'diplomacy', as developed by Isabelle Stengers, is of particular significance. Whereas many adherents of an affirmative ontology of difference reduce contradiction to a caveat - 'of course, antagonism is inevitable, but ...' - diplomacy makes contradiction its fund…
On the way to planet politics: From Disciplinary Demise to Cosmopolitical Coordination
From climatic chaos to mass extinction, from 'geoengineering' to unprecedented urbanisation, world politics has, in recent decades, become inescapably planetary. Recent discussions concerning 'Planet Politics' are, therefore, timely. However, the debate, to date, has been limited by a number of conceptual and political problems. In particular, an apparent disinclination to address serious differences as regards the authority of natural scientific…
Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations
The epithet ‘critical’ has become both coveted and contested. A long-established lodestone of personal, political, and professional commitment within academia, its meanings are multiple, and its histories are poorly understood. This article reconstructs an interdisciplinary history of debates concerning what it is to ‘be critical’, beginning in the 1930s but focusing on the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It argues the significance of the category …
Dismay, Dissembly and Geocide: Ways Through the Maze of Trumpist Geopolitics
Written in the still-unfolding aftermath of Donald Trump's accession to the office of President of the United States, this article picks up and expands upon some of the key points raised by Kyle McGee's Heathen Earth, particularly concerning the forms of political violence emergent in an age ever-increasingly defined by climate change and the strategies of analysis, theorisation and critique that these geohistorical developments demand. Much like…
Dismay, Dissembly and Geocide: Ways Through the Maze of Trumpist Geopolitics
Written in the still-unfolding aftermath of Donald Trump's accession to the office of President of the United States, this article picks up and expands upon some of the key points raised by Kyle McGee's Heathen Earth, particularly concerning the forms of political violence emergent in an age ever-increasingly defined by climate change and the strategies of analysis, theorisation and critique that these geohistorical developments demand. Much like…
The Folds of Coexistence: Towards a Diplomatic Political Ontology, between Difference and Contradiction
Between the affirmative and the negative, the compositional and the oppositional, we need to rethink the difference between difference and contradiction. In this regard, the concept of 'diplomacy', as developed by Isabelle Stengers, is of particular significance. Whereas many adherents of an affirmative ontology of difference reduce contradiction to a caveat - 'of course, antagonism is inevitable, but ...' - diplomacy makes contradiction its fund…
On the way to planet politics: From Disciplinary Demise to Cosmopolitical Coordination
From climatic chaos to mass extinction, from 'geoengineering' to unprecedented urbanisation, world politics has, in recent decades, become inescapably planetary. Recent discussions concerning 'Planet Politics' are, therefore, timely. However, the debate, to date, has been limited by a number of conceptual and political problems. In particular, an apparent disinclination to address serious differences as regards the authority of natural scientific…
Critical international politics at an impasse: Reflexivist, reformist, reactionary, and restitutive post-critique
Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations
The epithet ‘critical’ has become both coveted and contested. A long-established lodestone of personal, political, and professional commitment within academia, its meanings are multiple, and its histories are poorly understood. This article reconstructs an interdisciplinary history of debates concerning what it is to ‘be critical’, beginning in the 1930s but focusing on the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It argues the significance of the category …
Who am I to judge? The six (or so) dimensions of critique
The Citadel of Scholarship’: Rediscovering Critical IR in Millennium 1:1
‘Critical’ international relations (IR) is usually understood to have originated in the early 1980s. However, a close reading of Vithal Rajan’s ‘An Epitaph for Detached Scholarship’, published in the inaugural issue of Millennium in 1971, tells another story. Rajan’s article was not a work of critical theory per se, but it was in tune with demands, at this time, for establishing a ‘critical university’. Promising to open up university education t…
Repressive suspicion, or: The Problem With Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy culture cultivates suspicion towards the hidden workings of power. While some modes of suspicion direct critical attention towards the crimes and cruelties of oppressive social relations, other modes misdirect that same attention. When such misdirection serves to reproduce oppressive social relations, entrapping its adherents in the promise of emancipation, this may be understood as 'repressive suspicion'. Empirically, this concept is …
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