What a wonerful end to the @sasemeeting.bsky.social conference in Bordeaux. After an intellectually stimulating conference, our network reconvened for a collective meal at an alternative space for ecological transformation. Looking forward to picking up the conversation in Glasgow next year!

Another @sasemeeting.bsky.social Conference is over! Our co-founder, Lara Monticelli, delivered an inspiring keynote for the SASE Women and Gender Forum. She outlined what an economic sociology of alternatives could look like while challenging us to think about alternative sociologies.

💥In-person social event at Darwin on Friday, 3 July, 20:00: As every year, we are organizing a Network I social event open exclusively to network participants. Please fill-in this form by June 22nd at midnight to join: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Network I Social Event@Darwin

Social dinner for network I "Alternatives to Capitalism", Friday July 3rd, 20.00. Address here: https://magasingeneral.camp/

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Our co-founder and co-organiser, Lara Monticelli, will be giving a keynote speech for the SASE Women and Gender Forum on July 2nd from 16:15-17:45 titled "If Not Now, When? Towards an Economic Sociology of Alternatives". This is an in-person event. virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74989/...

Our free online programme offers two author-meets-critics sessions:  Nature, Neoliberal and New Materialisms: Riding the Ungovernable (2024) by Luigi Pellizoni. Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over by Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta. Details below👇

The Virtual Conference is on @sasemeeting.bsky.social. It's publicly available and free to join. You can view the full programme and register to get access details for the online sessions here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74989/...

As the Alternatives to Capitalism Network, we fully support our colleagues at the Dept of Management and Marketing at Essex Business School who are facing redundancy. See our open letter of support below. To sign the public statement, please visit: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics@sasemeeting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An open letter from SASE Network I organizers in support of colleagues at Essex Business School

Exciting new webinar by the co-founder and co-convenor of our Network, Lara Monticelli! 13 May 2026, 16-17h (CEST) Title: Intentional Communities. Embeddedness, Hybridity, and Porosity in Alternative Economies. To join, follow link: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/z8DLClMY8C... Passcode: 219539

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Our preliminary program is now available🤩, offering a wide variety of panels on post-capitalist planning, prefigurative politics, insurgent temporalities, theories of contemporary capitalism, digital platform cooperativism, monetary commons, post-capitalist desire & more! sase.org/networks/i-a...

Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism | SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

The broad aim of research Network I is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.

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BSA Theory @bsatheory.bsky.social and BSA ASMR @bsa-asmr.bsky.social have announced three new online seminars that might be of interest to this Network. All open for registration, free, and open to everyone.

BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BSA Theory's next three events are free and open for registration: 26 March 5pm GMT Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe 21 April 2:30pm BST Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist & Queer Theory 12 May 4pmBST Theorizing from Lived Experience: Activist Scholarship #Sociology #Theory

If you'll be at the BSA Conference in Manchester this year, you should check out the ASMR group's amazing launch event on 10 April 2025, 15:30. It'll be at the Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and involve an activist archive tour and workshop, food and drinks, and a social.

BSA Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Study Group@bsa-asmr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣Launch Event Friday 10 April 15:30! Join us for a library tour & archive workshop, introduction to the Group, food & drinks and a social event at Working Class Movement Library in Manchester during @britsoci.bsky.social Conference. DM us or email asmrstudygroupbsa@gmail.com. Details below👇

This is a much needed new group organised within the British Sociological Association. We're looking forward to collaborating with them soon. Follow them if you're interested grassroots politics, radical social transformation, and activism @bsa-asmr.bsky.social ✌️✌️

BSA Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Study Group@bsa-asmr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are thrilled to announce our new study group on Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions (ASMR) as part of the BSA @britsoci.bsky.social! We're a community of knowledge & practice aiming to advance ASMR through political engagement, research, events & collaborations. Join us! #Sociology #BSA

Available to watch! If you missed our co-hosted even on "Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care", you can now watch the video recording of the event here: youtu.be/RSyFwmpad1w

Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care

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TODAY at 7-8:15pm GMT, online! We're co-hosting this public event on Pirate Care. Join us if interested in care provision systems, austerity, cuts, disposability, and how people organise in the context of a care-less system of nation-states, criminalised solidarity, and capitalism. More info👇👇

Ioana Cerasella Chis@cerasellachis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care 7 – 8pm GMT, Tuesday 3rd of March 2026 (online) Register: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... The Book Review Symposium publication can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... More info: vagabonds.xyz #Anticapitalism

Join us online on 3 March 2026 @7-8pm GMT! We're co-hosting this event on Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care with the authors of the book Pirate Care and the contributors to the book review symbosium. Links in comments👇@plutopress.bsky.social

Ioana Cerasella Chis@cerasellachis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care 7 – 8pm GMT, Tuesday 3rd of March 2026 (online) Register: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... The Book Review Symposium publication can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... More info: vagabonds.xyz #Anticapitalism

⏳ Final day to submit Tomorrow is the last day to submit for SASE 2026 in Bordeaux. If you plan to participate, please finalize and submit your abstract through the appropriate network or mini-conference. 🔗 sase.org/conference-s... #SASE2026 #CallForPapers #DeadlineReminder

Conference Submission Guidelines - SASE

Submissions for the 2026 conference are now open. The deadline is December 16, 2025.

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Final day to submit an abstract for the 2026 SASE Conference in Bordeaux. We accept individual papers, pre-formed panels, book salons & more▶️Submit before 16 December 2025. Looking fw to seeing you in July @sasemeeting.bsky.social! For guidelines and submission links, visit: sase.org/conference-s...

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🆕🧵Not sure what Alternatives to Capitalism entails? We welcome a wide range of submissions & each co-organiser specialises in a specific sub-set of topics. As the deadline for abstract submissions for SASE 2026 in Bordeaux is fast approaching (16 December!), here's a thread that might help:

If you're planning to join the Alternatives to Capitalism Network at SASE in July 2026, this is the moment to submit your proposal! We accept papers, panels, book discussions, and thematic roundtables. Submit before 16 December. Find out more here 👇👇 @sasemeeting.bsky.social sase.org/networks/i-a...

Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism | SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

The broad aim of research Network I is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.

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Excited to launch our digital existence as the Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics🎉Follow us for updates on calls for papers, events, podcasts & much more! Learn more about us via the link👇👇 sase.org/networks/i-a... @sasemeeting.bsky.social

Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism | SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

The broad aim of research Network I is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.

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