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Craig Browne
Researcher at University of Sydney
Publications - 29
Citations - 181
Craig Browne is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Imaginary & Critical theory. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 27 publications receiving 149 citations.
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Austerity and Its Antitheses: Practical Negations of Capitalist Legitimacy
Craig Browne,Simon Susen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigates the manner in which anti-austerity protests constitute practical negations of capitalist legitimacy, arguing that they contribute to personal and social empowerment, as well as to radical democratization.
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Hope, Critique, and Utopia
TL;DR: The authors assesses the extent to which the category of hope assists in preserving and redefining the vestiges of utopian thought in critical social theory, arguing that the current philosophical and everyday interest in social hope can be traced to the limited capacity of liberal conceptions of freedom to articulate a vision of social transformation apposite to contemporary suffering and indignity.
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The End of Immanent Critique
TL;DR: The notion of permanent critique has been defined as a methodology that underpins theoretical diagnoses of contemporary society, based on its linking norm, and has been a defining feature of the programme of critical social theory as discussed by the authors.
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Conceptualising the Political Imaginary: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Craig Browne,Paula Diehl +1 more
TL;DR: The political is changing its shape as discussed by the authors, and the political is no longer stable, but instead build hybrid combinations. Populism is getting popular. In addition, there are new forms of political experiences,...
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The institution of critique and the critique of institutions
TL;DR: The authors argue that Boltanski's pragmatic sociology makes an important contribution to two central concerns of critical theory: the empirical analysis of the contradictions and conflicts of critical theories, and the analysis of conflicts among critical theories.