The Critical Political Epistemology Network is a transdisciplinary community of scholars working on the intersections of knowledge, power, governance, politics, oppression, and ignorance, especially through critical, feminist, queer, and decolonial frames. The purpose of the network is to foster and generate collaborations, discussions, and outputs across different academic disciplines and epistemic communities through organising various kinds of events, meetings, and a collective mailing list.

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If you would like to become a member and/or join the mailing list to be kept in the loop about future events and work, email us at cpenetwork@proton.me.

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CPEN Inaugural Workshop, 25–26 May 2023

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In May 2023, CPEN organised the inaugural workshop of the network at the University of Vienna. The workshop followed an experimental format that centred collaborative work over individual presentations. Participants first collectively and then in working groups discussed and explored six themes:

• Ideology, power, and (collective) ignorance/knowledge

• Activism, resistance, and counter-knowledge

• Political institutions, governance, and the State

• Material and epistemic labour, capital, and (re)distribution

• Social categories, identities, and agency

• Expertise, authority, and sites of knowledge production

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A final plenary session was held to discuss both content and future network activities together. We are currently in the process of compiling a collectively authored proceedings of the workshop and have plans to formulate a longer statement of purpose or 'manifesto' of Critical Political Epistemology based on work started at the workshop.

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