Jo Littler
@jolittler.bsky.social
Social / cultural / political / media analysis Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social 📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage #firstgen All views socially & culturally constructed.
⭐🎨 NOW LIVE: 2026 GOLDSMITHS UCU ART RAFFLE!! 🎨 ⭐ Raising money to support striking staff resisting savage redundancies at Goldsmiths Win art by Florence Peake Jeremy Deller Peckham Keffiyeh Louis Pohl Koseda Anna Higgins Eddie Peake &many more! Tickets £5, draw 26 July 🔥 www.gucu-raffle.com
Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026
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Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents 📆 July 23rd - 24th 📍London Full programme with all star line up ⭐ 23rd July feat @darrenchetty.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @jasnijjar.bsky.social etc on prison education, meritocracy, colonialism, war + more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
New article: Sarah Bufkin, John Clarke, Jo Littler 'Feeling political? Turbulent emotions in the age of Starmer and Reform UK' Soundings 25 Vol 90-91 Open access here: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vo...
The new Soundings has 4 MCCS co/written articles: @angelamcrobbie.bsky.social - feminism & the right Natalie Fenton &co- What media do we need? @jolittler.bsky.social &co - Feeling political Gholam Khiabany -Iran, Palestine & limits of solidarity journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vo...
Soundings: Volume 2025 Issue 90 & 91 (2025) - Lawrence Wishart
Soundings: A journal of politics and culture - Issue contents for Volume 2025 Issue 90 (2025)
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New book! Out 15 Oct 'The Moralizing Corporation' w/ Grietje Baars, Joel Bakan, Bobby Banerjee, Alan Bradshaw, Andreas Chatzidakis, Robert Deakin, Sara Farris, Marianna Fotaki, Jo Littler, Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, Lisa Ann Richey, Rohit Varman bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-moralizi...
The Moralizing Corporation
The Moralizing Corporation - The Rise and Fall of Corporate Carewashing; This interdisciplinary edited collection interrogates both the deceptions of contemporary corporate ‘carewashing’ and attacks o...
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Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
Andy Burnham standing is exciting. Like Sadiq Khan he's travelled from centre to left, has implemented actual progressive policies as Mayor, & has huge popular appeal. Plus it's gratifying to witness the political wind changing today & so much of PLP becoming #SuddenlySocialist ..!
A parliamentary by-election is coming in Makerfield and Reform UK will see this as a huge opportunity. Last week, in local elections in Makerfield and Wigan, Reform took every single council seat with a 46.2% share of the total vote. Now they’ll want to go further.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is now odds on to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Many congrats to the new Mayor of Lewisham, Liam Shrivastava, an alumnus of our MA Political Communications! www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-politi... @liamshrivastava.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 3mo agoBREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!
All 🌟 line-up @jasnijjar.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @alexkelbert.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @darrenchetty.bsky.social @lukedenoronha.bsky.social + many more who aren't on here. Please share! Full programme TBA soon!
Organising this summer school with support from @thesociologicalreview.org 🚨Class, Culture & Discontents 📍23rd & 24th July 🏫 Balham, South London 🧑🍳 Free lunch Great line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics, come one, come all Free tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
Online today - Paul Gilroy and Adam Elliot-Cooper in conversation on anti-racist organising, policing and the GLC in 1980s London www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracist...
Antiracist Organizing, Policing, and the GLC in 1980s London
Join Paul Gilroy and Adam Elliott-Cooper as they discuss antiracist organizing and policing in 1980s London. Organized by Soundings.
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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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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
This is a fundamental reason why universities are in crisis in the UK as well as Australia Funnelling money to private consultants which gives them pointless terrible 'advice', deepening crisis and 'dependency' on consultants rinse, repeat, collapse www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b
Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.
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FAO: The UK university sector 'One of the recommendations in Verdant’s first report is to slash spending by government on management consultants like McKinsey. We present evidence of excessive spend over many years.' www.verdantthinking.org/publications...
Waste Not — Verdant
How the UK government can save money and support public services
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South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak. Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill. SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers. Privatisation is a scam.
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak
Firm admits supplying water unfit for human consumption after nearly 150 people fell ill
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As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
What’s that popular definition of insanity again?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo agoShabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat
Struck by how Hannah Spencer's brilliant victory speech is a broadside against neoliberal meritocracy – like so many other (esp. female working-class) voices right now. This is exactly what Bev Skeggs & I discuss in our new article, 'Social Mobility is a Joke': journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The level of dirt thrown against Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer this week from the Gutter Press and from Labour/Reform was unbelievable. And for what crime? Just wanting to make Britain a better place to live. But in the end it did not work. Shows there is still hope in this world
I'm so glad I don't have to live in a world where Matt Goodwin is an MP
Fantastic interview with Jilly Kay about her recent research into reactionary feminisms. And yes, these weird new kinds of right-wing anti-politics really are, of a kind, 'feminisms'. Check it out here or search for culture, power, politics in any app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/02/23/r...
Reactionary Feminisms with Jilly Kay part 1
In this episode, Jeremy is joined by Dr. Jilly Kay of Loughborough University to discuss her fascinating and crucial research into new forms of reactionary feminism. Why do Cath…
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