Barcelona Critical is an initiative established with the aim of fostering a scholarly community dedicated to the critical study of International Relations, centred around an annual conference of international standing. Its primary objective is to create an interdisciplinary space for debate and knowledge production that generates meaningful impact in addressing the major challenges of our time at their intersection with global justice. These challenges include the climate crisis, war and its colonial legacies, and the dynamics of extractive technocapitalism, approached through a critical perspective committed to social transformation.