Camila Vergara
@camilavergara.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy.
Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy.
Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
CFP: Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
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fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
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fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CFP: Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics
Register here
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shorturl.at/XmAsZ
Register here
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shorturl.at/XmAsZ
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics
Register here
👇
shorturl.at/XmAsZ
Register here
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shorturl.at/XmAsZ
2) 'Free Labour, Forced Labour, and Independent Contractors', as part of the conference 'Interrogating the Post-Neoliberal Moment in Labour Law', organised by Julieta Lobato at the School of Law, University of Glasgow.
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
2) 'Free Labour, Forced Labour, and Independent Contractors', as part of the conference 'Interrogating the Post-Neoliberal Moment in Labour Law', organised by Julieta Lobato at the School of Law, University of Glasgow.
This week I will give 2 talks at University of Glasgow:
1) Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy, organised by the People’s Health Movement Scotland, SANE Collective & the schools of Social & Political Sciences and Health & Wellbeing.
shorturl.at/Bc9L1
1) Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy, organised by the People’s Health Movement Scotland, SANE Collective & the schools of Social & Political Sciences and Health & Wellbeing.
shorturl.at/Bc9L1
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This week I will give 2 talks at University of Glasgow:
1) Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy, organised by the People’s Health Movement Scotland, SANE Collective & the schools of Social & Political Sciences and Health & Wellbeing.
shorturl.at/Bc9L1
1) Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy, organised by the People’s Health Movement Scotland, SANE Collective & the schools of Social & Political Sciences and Health & Wellbeing.
shorturl.at/Bc9L1
Tomorrow starts the @histmat.bsky.social conference in London. I will present work on Lenin's analysis of labor laws & give comments on Peter Bloom's book Capitalism Reloaded.
I will also chair two great panels on eco-marxism & alternatives to capitalism.
conference.historicalmaterialism.org
I will also chair two great panels on eco-marxism & alternatives to capitalism.
conference.historicalmaterialism.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tomorrow starts the @histmat.bsky.social conference in London. I will present work on Lenin's analysis of labor laws & give comments on Peter Bloom's book Capitalism Reloaded.
I will also chair two great panels on eco-marxism & alternatives to capitalism.
conference.historicalmaterialism.org
I will also chair two great panels on eco-marxism & alternatives to capitalism.
conference.historicalmaterialism.org
Excited to present my work on plebeian populism and anti-oligarchic politics at the @populismpsa.bsky.social workshop in Thessaloniki. With keynotes by Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis.
@populism.bsky.social
@populism.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Excited to present my work on plebeian populism and anti-oligarchic politics at the @populismpsa.bsky.social workshop in Thessaloniki. With keynotes by Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis.
@populism.bsky.social
@populism.bsky.social
Progress has been detached from the common good and means have become ends in themselves.
Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.
Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.
June 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Progress has been detached from the common good and means have become ends in themselves.
Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.
Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.
I look forward to contributing to the discussion on 'Democracy's Discontents' at this great conference organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations in Venice.
May 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I look forward to contributing to the discussion on 'Democracy's Discontents' at this great conference organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations in Venice.
Join us this Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of @LSEHumanRights. I will be in a panel with Banu Bargu and Brenna Bhandar, talking about Human Rights ‘from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle
Register here
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www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...
Register here
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www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...
May 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Join us this Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of @LSEHumanRights. I will be in a panel with Banu Bargu and Brenna Bhandar, talking about Human Rights ‘from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle
Register here
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www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...
Register here
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www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...
Clip from The Settlers. This is how apartheid is enforced in the West Bank.
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Clip from The Settlers. This is how apartheid is enforced in the West Bank.
This Sunday I will give the plenary address at University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory on "Theorizing from Below: Political Theory as Democratic Praxis". I look forward to discussing about this topic with Wendy Brown in the final roundtable.
voices.uchicago.edu/politicalthe...
voices.uchicago.edu/politicalthe...
April 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This Sunday I will give the plenary address at University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory on "Theorizing from Below: Political Theory as Democratic Praxis". I look forward to discussing about this topic with Wendy Brown in the final roundtable.
voices.uchicago.edu/politicalthe...
voices.uchicago.edu/politicalthe...
We had a great event on the energy commons, learning from the experiences of Teia dos Povos.
March 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We had a great event on the energy commons, learning from the experiences of Teia dos Povos.
49-page UN report documenting Israel's "genocidal acts" in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
March 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
49-page UN report documenting Israel's "genocidal acts" in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
A second wave of AI-powered McCarthyism is upon us. Nobody is safe and there is no use in hiding. Only a collective frontal response can shield us from the purges. University administrators are complicit and more than willing to comply with the witch hunt.
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
A second wave of AI-powered McCarthyism is upon us. Nobody is safe and there is no use in hiding. Only a collective frontal response can shield us from the purges. University administrators are complicit and more than willing to comply with the witch hunt.
Who is 'the people' and what is its political power?
Tomorrow I will give the James H. Burns Memorial Lecture at University of St. Andrews on 'The People & Constituent Power' in which I will trace 'the people' as a collective subject in intellectual history.
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/insti...
Tomorrow I will give the James H. Burns Memorial Lecture at University of St. Andrews on 'The People & Constituent Power' in which I will trace 'the people' as a collective subject in intellectual history.
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/insti...
March 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Who is 'the people' and what is its political power?
Tomorrow I will give the James H. Burns Memorial Lecture at University of St. Andrews on 'The People & Constituent Power' in which I will trace 'the people' as a collective subject in intellectual history.
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/insti...
Tomorrow I will give the James H. Burns Memorial Lecture at University of St. Andrews on 'The People & Constituent Power' in which I will trace 'the people' as a collective subject in intellectual history.
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/insti...
This headline from the nytimes is misleading.
Bannon is not a populist (even if he likes calling himself that), but a far-right, christian zionist & economic nationalist. Musk is also the first 2 + a South African self-serving tech oligarch that is weakening the State.
Bannon is not a populist (even if he likes calling himself that), but a far-right, christian zionist & economic nationalist. Musk is also the first 2 + a South African self-serving tech oligarch that is weakening the State.
March 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This headline from the nytimes is misleading.
Bannon is not a populist (even if he likes calling himself that), but a far-right, christian zionist & economic nationalist. Musk is also the first 2 + a South African self-serving tech oligarch that is weakening the State.
Bannon is not a populist (even if he likes calling himself that), but a far-right, christian zionist & economic nationalist. Musk is also the first 2 + a South African self-serving tech oligarch that is weakening the State.
January 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
SAVE THE DATE: 20 January, 2:15-5 pm CET
I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin.
Register here
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tinyurl.com/yp69y46p
I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin.
Register here
👇
tinyurl.com/yp69y46p
January 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
SAVE THE DATE: 20 January, 2:15-5 pm CET
I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin.
Register here
👇
tinyurl.com/yp69y46p
I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin.
Register here
👇
tinyurl.com/yp69y46p
December 25, 2024 at 4:48 PM
This is terrifying. We are truly going back to the 1930s.
December 13, 2024 at 6:33 PM
This is terrifying. We are truly going back to the 1930s.
In 2022 I contributed to an “Enquête on Populism” in Slagmark, alongside Cas Mudde, Chantal Mouffe, Jan-Werner Muller & Anton Jäger, which has now been made available open access: tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/art...
Since it is in Danish, here is an English translation
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Since it is in Danish, here is an English translation
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November 28, 2024 at 11:58 AM
In 2022 I contributed to an “Enquête on Populism” in Slagmark, alongside Cas Mudde, Chantal Mouffe, Jan-Werner Muller & Anton Jäger, which has now been made available open access: tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/art...
Since it is in Danish, here is an English translation
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Since it is in Danish, here is an English translation
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At last the International Criminal Court has approved the arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant.
These warrants are insufficient since there are many more war criminals in the Israeli government, but at least it is a start.
These warrants are insufficient since there are many more war criminals in the Israeli government, but at least it is a start.
November 21, 2024 at 1:01 PM
At last the International Criminal Court has approved the arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant.
These warrants are insufficient since there are many more war criminals in the Israeli government, but at least it is a start.
These warrants are insufficient since there are many more war criminals in the Israeli government, but at least it is a start.