The paperback edition of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ is now available for £12.50 at checkout from Manchester University Press. For those who’re interested in social class, everyday life, inequality, struggle & deindustrialization 👉🏾 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195746/

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Sad news that Carlo Ginsburg, an important figure in microhistory research, has passed: lavocedinewyork.com/en/people/20...

Italian Historian Carlo Ginzburg, Pioneer of Microhistory, Dies

Italian culture, history, and scholarship are poorer today with the passing of Carlo Ginzburg, the renowned Italian historian and essayist

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Does social engagement in childhood or adolescence affect the disposition to participate in #protest later in life? Do members of #informal #collectives protest more or less than people who belong to #NGOs and other associations? For answers, join us today at 13h at @uomsoss.bsky.social #AFPP2026

‘Working-class boys from Bradford didn’t go to art school. It just wasn’t the done thing. That was for other people. But Hockney was born to subvert expectations.’

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‘Hyper-stylised, ultra-cool visions’: 10 ways David Hockney changed art

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

Always loved these early Hockney paintings of Bradford

Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns The world's oceans have broken heat records for nine straight years, glaciers are retreating and extreme weather is killing thousands. The only way to avoid the worst is to urgently ditch fossil fuels www.dw.com/en/earths-cl...

Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns

The world's oceans have broken heat records for nine straight years, glaciers are retreating and extreme weather is killing thousands. The only way to avoid the worst is to urgently ditch fossil fuels...

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What an artist. There can be few comics creators who have had a greater impact than Marjane Satrapi has.

Agence France-Presse@afp.com · 2mo ago

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

Nice of Greg to review me in the latest LRB:

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago

Issue 48.10 is now online, featuring: Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities Lili Owen Rowlands on Agnès Varda Greg Afinogenov on Russian ideologies Rahmane Idrissa on the Sahara and @jamesmeek.bsky.social on Andy Burnham. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

My book review of Tim Butcher’s ‘Creative work beyond precarity’ is now out in WES. Welcome to read it if you’re interested in how creativity helps to rethink precarity through colaborative work and learning 👉🏾 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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🌿 A new video abstract explains the key ideas from my recent article on theorisation of everyday struggle through the environmental initiatives of urban gardening and waste sorting. Here I experiment with combining the talking-head format with ethnographic documentary footage 👉🏽 youtu.be/Ds0eOFoRvCQ

Theorising everyday struggle through everyday environmentalism | Video abstract

YouTube video by Alexandrina Vanke

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We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation

NEW BLOG! Read Steven High's latest blog on the Tricofil experience in Saint-Jérôme: a significant attempt at worker self-management in the 1970s, between dreams of national liberation and economic realities.

🌹♻️ My new article in Current Sociology theorises everyday struggle in relation to environmentalism. I argue that caring for the environment is part of everyday struggle, which is not only about resistance but also about the co-creation of alternatives. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0011...

В нем вы найдете интервью с Абди Каземипуром наряду с богатым и своевременным набором статей о социологии в Иране. Также читайте тексты о политической и социальной экономии миграции и анализ того, как война в Газе тесно связана с накоплением капитала.

🗞️ RC44 Labour Movements www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge... 🗞️ RC57 Visual Sociology www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge... 🗞️ TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

From the Archive: Valerie Walkerdine, 'Communal Beingness and Affect: An Exploration of Trauma in an Ex-industrial Community' - explores the place of affect in community relations with respect to trauma following the closure of a steelworks. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Communal Beingness and Affect: An Exploration of Trauma in an Ex-industrial Community - Valerie Walkerdine, 2010

The article explores the place of affect in community relations with respect to trauma following the closure of a steelworks for a working-class community in th...

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"Everyday politics is a way of really grounding the term by interacting, listening, talking to people; you tease out what the content of everyday life is, that is still political." transcript of an interview I did for the podcast The Eurasian Knot. postsocialism.org/2026/04/08/w...

🌟 In the final episode of Key Concepts, I unpack everyday struggle, a concept that I develop in ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. What is everyday struggle, and why does it matter for understanding social life beyond open resistance? Check out in the episode 👉🏽 youtu.be/ae1lbQfom5I

What are everyday struggles? | Key Concepts series

YouTube video by Alexandrina Vanke

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Join the Conversation 💡 The Bauman Institute is pleased to invite you to Displaced Ecologies - the opening event in the Bauman Memorial Conversations Series: Thinking Displacement. Wednesday 25th March 4:00pm-5:30pm Via Zoom (online only) Sign up: https://ow.ly/axG250YvgfO

Happy to announce the publication of The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories, which is a collective outcome of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Huge thanks to Stefan Berger and all 26 contributors. It was a beautiful process of collaborative research and writing.

The Politics of Industrial Closure

The Politics of Industrial Closure explores how the political consequences of neoliberal globalization have led to the decline of industrial regions across W...

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🌟 A new episode of the Key Concepts series is now live! In this episode, I explore my favourite concept, the imaginary, and explain how it has been developed across the social sciences 👉🏽 m.youtube.com/watch?v=vndj...

What are imaginaries? | Key Concepts series

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🌟 Episode 1 of the Key Concepts series, based on my book, is now out. It discusses what structure of feeling is. Welcome to watch it if interested 👉🏽 youtu.be/CnDs8V-8qzA

Key Concepts series | What is structure of feeling?

YouTube video by Alexandrina Vanke

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Welcome to join the DéPOT workshop of the Deindustrialization and the Environment theme, dedicated to Gentrification and Greening

Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time@deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WORKSHOP - March 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment workshop to discuss ongoing research!

Closing tomorrow! Apply to join the SRO or Cultural Sociology Journal Editorial Boards by Thursday, 26 February, 17:00 GMT! Gain insight on the publication process and contribute to journal discussions, by applying now. Details can be found below. www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

🎉 New fascinating book review of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia' by Sofia Borushkina has been published in the new issue of Europe-Asia Studies journal. It’s so fulfilling to see the reviewer's immersive engagement with my book 👉🏽https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2589612

BSA journals SRO and Cultural Sociology are now accepting Editorial Board applications! Deadline for applications is 26 February 2026, 17:00 GMT. Details on how to apply below. www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

ROUNDTABLE - February 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment roundtable to discuss ongoing research!

Labor and Working Class Environmentalism

Join us for our first Deindustrialization and the Environment working group discussion!

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