BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)
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The Theory Study Group of @britsoci.bsky.social provides a forum for sociologists interested in social theory. If you'd like to join the group then please see our website. #Sociology #BSATheory
Today marks the end of my co-convenor role in the BSA Theory Study Group, after 4 years of involvement. Keep an eye on this page for future events & initiatives of the current committee: www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study... To contact BSA Theory, email bsatheory@gmail.com or individual convenors
Events
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Call for Papers by 10 June for ‘Theorising from Lived Experience: An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers’, a @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 24 September at the University of Birmingham. This event supports ECRs' theorisation, argumentation and thesis writing tinyurl.com/bd82ph58
🪧Call for Papers for ECR Workshop: Theorising from Lived Experience @bsaecf.bsky.social 24 September 2026, University of Birmingham Deadlines: Abstract submission: 10 June 2026 Decisions go out: 17 June 2026 Full working papers (5-8k words): 1 September 2026 Submission guidelines: tiny.cc/p803101
There's still time to register to our Roundtable on Activist Scholarship with Akwugo Emejulu, Panos Theodoropoulos and AK Thompson. 12 May 2026, 4:00-5:30 pm (BST) To register: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
BSA Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Study Group@bsa-asmr.bsky.social · 3mo ago💥Roundtable on Activist Scholarship on 12 May 2026, 4:00-5:30 pm BST, Online. Organised in collaboration w/ @bsatheory.bsky.social Our speakers: Akwugo Emejulu (Sheffield) Panos Theodoropoulos (KCL) AK Thompson (Movement-based scholar and organizer) Register: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
🪧Call for Papers for ECR Workshop: Theorising from Lived Experience @bsaecf.bsky.social 24 September 2026, University of Birmingham Deadlines: Abstract submission: 10 June 2026 Decisions go out: 17 June 2026 Full working papers (5-8k words): 1 September 2026 Submission guidelines: tiny.cc/p803101
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Activist Scholarship 12 May 2026 (4.00-5.30pm BST) Online Speakers: Akwugo Emejulu (Sheffield) Panos Theodoropoulos (KCL) AK Thompson (Movement-based scholar and organizer) Register: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 5mo agoBSA 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
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
21 April 14:30 BST Online Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist and Queer Theory A roundtable with: Jo Littler (Goldsmiths) @jolittler.bsky.social Billy Holzberg (KCL) Nicola Smith (Birmingham) Lois McNay (Oxford) Free and open to all. To register, follow the link tinyurl.com/4dw285x6
British Sociological Association@britsoci.bsky.social · 4mo agoAre researchers relying too heavily on the first-person vantage point? Find out at 'Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Feminist and Queer Theory', a free @bsatheory.bsky.social online event, 21 April tinyurl.com/4dw285x6
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
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory
Missed our co-organised event on 'Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care'? The video recording of the event is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyF... #PirateCare #SocialMovements #Resistance @plutopress.bsky.social
Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care
YouTube video by Max Haiven
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Ahead of our 26th March event, read the recently published SAQ issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Volume 125 Issue 1 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoRacial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory
Many thanks to everyone who attended the Pirate Care event today! The video recording will be shared soon. Make sure to register for our next event which is due to take place on the 26th March from 5pm GMT - Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoHope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care 3 March '26, 7pm GMT Online Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... @plutopress.bsky.social
This event will be taking place tomorrow from 7pm GMT! It will continue conversations started in this recently published book review symposium: link.springer.com/article/10.1... More details & registration link here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Theory #Sociology #PirateCare
Book Review Symposium for Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak (2025). Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity - Postdigital Science and Education
Postdigital Science and Education -
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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoHope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care 3 March '26, 7pm GMT Online Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... @plutopress.bsky.social
Excellent Thinking Allowed episode with @bsaecf.bsky.social President Les Back & BSA Vice-President Imogen Taylor, talking about the impotance of social theory for analysing phenomena in the contemporary world. The episode can be accessed here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #Sociology #SocialTheory
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The demise of Grand Theory?
Laurie Taylor charts changes in current sociological study with Les Back and Imogen Tyler.
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Join us today at 3:30pm GMT for the first roundtable of our roundtable series, Theorising from Lived Experience. Our speakers - Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, and Sebastian Raza - will talk about Phenomenological Approaches.
BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoTheorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
This is happening today from 3:30pm - see you there! #Sociology #SocialTheory
BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoTheorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’. Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social 3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Book now for 'Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March tinyurl.com/4fkrea9z #sociology
If you've tried to register but the link did not work/indicated that the event is fully booked, we're pleased to announce that the portal should be working once again! Please visit this page to register for our Theorising from Lived Experience event: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoTheorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
This event will take place on Friday next week - grab your tickets!
BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo agoTheorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
Explore the methodological advantages and limits of working from lived experience – book now for ‘Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches’, a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 27 February 2026 tinyurl.com/mu3jrv5a
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care 3 March '26, 7pm GMT Online Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... @plutopress.bsky.social
Call for submissions! 🔔 2026 The Theory Prize! ⏱️ Submit by March 2, 2026 🔗 Full call and other awards: asatheory.com/theory-award...
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’. Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social 3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
The BSA Theory Study Group has 3 exciting events scheduled for the coming weeks! 27 February (3.30pm GMT) Theorizing from Lived Experience 3 March (7pm GMT) Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care 26 March (5pm GMT) Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe #Sociology #Theory #BSATheory
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory