Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
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Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
'CPD Paper Prize Winner 2026 - The coloniality of exploitation in fast fashion manufacturing in the UK' 🌍 Join Andy Hom as he talks to Susy Williams who won the BISA CPD Working Group's 2026 ECR Paper Prize 🎉 👉 https://ow.ly/JnTm50ZsV0X Review of International Studies
I am just preparing my talk for this workshop tomorrow for @thesociologicalreview.org and reading a brilliant paper by the Goldsmiths students who turned Nirmal Puwar’s Manifesto for Live Methods into a picket line teach out in 2022 - you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPvz...
Live Methods as creative resistance: Crafting a PhD and solidarity in the neoliberal university
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The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 2d agoRegistration closes today! There are just a handful of places left for Live Methods with Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to join an inspiring online course exploring live methods with one of sociology's leading voices. buff.ly/LCytOtC
New issue from #Identities, now published! Vol 32 No 4 Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... #LatestIssue @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166...
Use the 'BUP07' code if you wish to preorder the book below for half the price (unless you wish to access it as a free Open Access ebook!) in the next 8 hours. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disabling-ca... #Disability #Capitalism #Anticapitalism #Work #AcademicChatter #BookSky
Disabling Capitalism
Disabling Capitalism - A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement; A critical exploration of disability, precarious work and capitalism in the UK, this book demonstrates the value of d...
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Ioana Cerasella Chis@cerasellachis.bsky.social · 2w ago'Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement' is due to be published in Feb 2027 - available in Open Access and paperback formats It can be preordered from here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disabling-ca... (a 50% discount can be accessed until the end of July)
1/ What has devolution changed for race equality across Britain? Our new @nuffieldfoundation.org funded Policy Briefing we map the strategies, duties, action plans and accountability mechanisms developed since devolution. bsky.app/profile/uofg...
Centre for Public Policy@uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 6d agoHow has race equality policy developed differently across England, Scotland and Wales during the three decades of devolution? ❓ Read new insights from @nasarmeer.bsky.social and Dr Mahnoz Illias: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
What if qualitative research didn't have to revolve around interviews? Join Professor Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring Live Method - creative, contemporary approaches to qualitative research 📅 4 & 18 Aug 💻 Online 🎟️ Register by 1 Aug: buff.ly/csttcLH
If you’ve ever wondered why economic outcomes often don’t match the promises of meritocracy and free markets, this conversation is for you. 🎧 Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation: lnkd.in/gBZYcGXe #ChallengingEconomicAssumptions #Economics @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social
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I have been thinking a lot about what has changed since Nirmal Puwar and I wrote the Live Methods manifesto. Looking forward to sharing some of these thoughts next week. I am planning to give a talk in the first workshop, but I really want it to be a space to think about our shared craftwork too.
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last wk.What if qualitative research could expand beyond the interview? Join Professor Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring Live Methods - creative, contemporary approaches to qualitative research. 📅 4 & 18 Aug 💻 Online 🎟️ Register by 1 Aug: buff.ly/csttcLH
A comment on Palantir in the latest jam packed @bsaecf.bsky.social Network magazine www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27245/...
OUT NOW: our Virtual Issue of the journal, a companion to The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture with Angela Saini. Explore eight #freetoview papers on health disparities, introduced by editor @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/8owh23O Book Tickets: buff.ly/EstP9Oe
New chapter out in De Gruyter handbook of Digital Political Communication De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Political Communication, published July 2026 I have a chapter in the recently published De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Political Communication. Many thanks to the fantastic editors, Mark…
New chapter out in De Gruyter handbook of Digital Political Communication
De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Political Communication, published July 2026 I have a chapter in the recently published De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Political Communication. Many thanks to the fantastic editors, Mark Wheeler and & Petros Iosifidis for the invitation, and for pulling together such an excellent volume. My chapter is entitled ‘Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Sousveillance on YouTube Revisited’.
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Fantastic day at Grove Academy, Balham, London going to give a talk to the sixth formers and teachers for this Sociological Review Foundation sponsored event on Class, Culture & Discontents
Marking the one year anniversary of the reboot of the GU Sociological & Cultural Studies blog, our latest intervention from Ian Greener makes the case for giving more careful attention to the meanings and affordances of games and gaming: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
'Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement' is due to be published in Feb 2027 - available in Open Access and paperback formats It can be preordered from here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disabling-ca... (a 50% discount can be accessed until the end of July)
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Buy tickets – "Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now Solve it? How the Story of One Country is the Story of the World." – Shilling Brewing Company
"Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now Solve it? How the Story of One Country is the Story of the World." – Shilling Brewing Company, Sun 23 Aug 2026 - "Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now S...
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The latest issue of The #Identities Newsletter is now published! Spotlighting the journal's latest activities, including events, blog posts & more: sh1.sendinblue.com/a... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
#OtD 16 Jul 1862 feminist, writer, and anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born. Wells' investigative journalism documented lynchings in the American south, and she was one of the founders of the @NAACP stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788...
GUMG members @catherinehapper.bsky.social and Lluis De Nadal talk to @lauraewebster.bsky.social at The National podcast about their new book, Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkt...
How the media LIED about the cost of living crisis...and why Scotland isn't buying it
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Now Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... bsky.app/profile/nasa...
Social Policy and the Determinants of Vulnerability – Missing ‘Race’ in Climate Adaptation | Social Policy and Society | Cambridge Core
Social Policy and the Determinants of Vulnerability – Missing ‘Race’ in Climate Adaptation - Volume 25 Issue 3
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social@nasarmeer.bsky.social · last mo.Recently published a study of climate adaptation + equal protection (linked below). Given the🌡, worth restating the view that any serious National Adaptation Plan should try to make society safer, healthier + more secure in a hotter, wetter + more volatile Britain. share.google/e5wQnUpzCm6t...
The cat is out the bag. A great honour to be nominated alongside people I have long admired
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 3w agoHuge congrats to author @dominicmhinde.bsky.social on his book 'Drifting north' being longlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing! 'Drifting north' is out now and available from all good bookshops & online. #WainwrightPrize #booksky
If you are in Edinburgh for the festival come to the cosy Fringe by the Sea www.fringebythesea.com/drifting-nor...
Drifting North – Fringe by the Sea
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We're happy to support Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents, organised by @amit-singh.bsky.social (UCL). A free two-day summer school exploring class, culture & today's social challenges through workshops and discussion. Find out more and register: buff.ly/MSeyFEG #Sociology #SummerSchool
Reimagining Menopause, our new Sociological Review Monograph, links menopause to broader structures of power and inequality. Edited by Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan and Odessa Hamilton, its 10 chapters examine gender, visibility and neoliberalism. ➡️ buff.ly/2D51Icf @journals.sagepub.com
There is an open access Introduction to this volume by Patil and Puri via the website, well worth reading as a distinctive account of the relationship of #postcolonial, #decolonial and #anticolonial thought to #sociology
Matthew Waites (he or they)@matthewwaites.bsky.social · last mo.Check out the new Handbook of Anticolonial, Decolonial and Postcolonial Sociologies edited by Vrushali Patil and Jyoti Puri, happy to have a chapter in this: 'Sexualities, genders and decolonizing queer sociological analysis' @uofgsociology.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
The latest issue of The #Identities Newsletter is now published! Spotlighting the journal's latest activities, including events, blog posts & more: sh1.sendinblue.com/a... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
"Football is adversarial - but it can also be playful" With World Cup fever gripping the nation, Prof Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social talked to @thetimes.com about Scotland’s ‘anyone but England’ tradition. Excellent article by @leaskyd.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
The sociology of why Scotland backs ‘anyone but England’
A Glasgow University academic says support for England’s opponents is often playful, but can reveal deeper tensions
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