Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain 16th September at UCL I'll be talking race, class & place with @alexkelbert.bsky.social & @lukedenoronha.bsky.social Hosted by @uclsociology.bsky.social & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...
Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
@m-latchoumaya.bsky.social
Research Associate @uomsociology; Race and ethnicity, whiteness, Frenchness, Indian indenture in the Caribbean, South Asian identities and diaspora https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/manuela.latchoumaya
Big thanks to everyone who came down to the summer school over the last couple of days, and to @thesociologicalreview.org for their support.... not to mention all the speakers who donated their time for free! See you all next year (or a bit sooner).
Just over two weeks to the summer school in South London Feat some amazing speakers and free lunch! Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social 4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
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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...
My book is out today! Based on long-term ethnographic research in the Czech city of Ostrava, it theorises the link between political economy & anti-Roma racism. It offers a critique of the low-cost labour regime, which is the backbone of Czech manufacturing production tinyurl.com/ymvf6kby
Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism
Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková
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🎉 The #BJS2026 conference kicks off today at @lsesociology.bsky.social. We’re delighted to welcome 300+ sociologists from around the world for two days of lively debate and cutting‑edge research across over 80 sessions including panels, special forums and keynotes 🌍
Thank you ERS for publishing and posting my new article!
#ERSNew #OpenAccess 🐣🔓 Time to decolonise the study of #racism in #China. New article by Zihuan Zhang critiques the field's blind spots and pioneers a cohesive decolonial framework for understanding racialisation in Chinese society. Essential theoretical intervention.
My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work shorturl.at/hVEL7
Cancelled Futures
How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work
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3 days, 15 streams, 700 presentations, our annual conference is our biggest UK sociology event – this year on the theme of 75 Years of Sociology #britsoc26
My latest article in Social Science History revisits the toppling of two controversial statues in Virginia and Martinique. I argue that statue topplings are not shots fired in a 'culture war', but a response to a longer crisis of historical subjectivity. doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
Setting Empire in Stone: Commemoration and the Crisis of Historical Subjectivity | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Setting Empire in Stone: Commemoration and the Crisis of Historical Subjectivity
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Surplus Lives: Out on the 28 April manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181855/ The book builds an argument that the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s Czechia overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers. @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism
Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková
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Next week! #Identities online event, in collaboration with Stuart Hall Archive Project at University of Birmingham The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community www.eventbrite.co.uk... Stuart Hall Foundation @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgcp.bsky.social
SEMINAR: 🗣️'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps 📅1-2.30pm, 23 April 2026 📌Hybrid (Manchester and online) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5d5908...
Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England. A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!) www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...
The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources 📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The publishing process as an ECR can feel uncertain. We’ve created a hub that covers everything from submission to decision with guidance on peer review, article prep, and advice from our community. Demystify the journey and submit with confidence. think.taylorandfrancis.com/ers-early-ca...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies is the leading international journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration and forms of ethno-nationalism. These social phenomena are at the…
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Still time to register for our annual lecture this Thursday: Bridget Anderson shares her research on migration and citizenship 👇🏾
University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026: ‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration & Citizenship’ Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) 📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026 (followed by drinks reception) All welcome! @britsoci.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bor...
University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026: ‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship’ Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) 📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026 @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...
Dharmi Kapadia comments in this piece on the barriers faced by people from minority ethnic groups as they seek help for gambling addiction. @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/i-didn...
'I didn't know where to turn': Why ethnic minorities with gambling addictions struggle to get help
Research has shown that people from ethnic minorities are less likely to gamble than their white counterparts - but are more likely to suffer harm from gambling and less likely to seek help.
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Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper below: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
Young people in museums: representation, anti-racism, and poetry as pedagogy
Museums in the UK perpetuate inequalities through colonial collections, problematic artefact narratives and institutional whiteness. Within this context, young people from racialised backgrounds re...
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🚨 Just over 1 week to go until this year's annual Sociology Symposium! 📅 3 Dec 12.30-4pm 📍 Williamson Bldg 4.08, UoM ☕ Refreshments provided Join us for an afternoon of discussion, debate, and discovery!
My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016. Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma… | ...
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma rac...
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FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge 📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm 📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester 🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in @ersjournal.com @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
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What if you had a French passport, spoke true French, but were never seen as truly French? Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies. Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...
Meet the expert: Manuela Latchoumaya
YouTube video by The University of Manchester- Faculty of Humanities
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New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working‐Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
This paper examines how working-class young people enroled at college in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. It argues that university represents a great risk, associated with high...
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#ERSNew🐣🔓 By exploring the experiences of French citizens of Indian descent, this article advances our understanding of racialisation processes and racial formation in colour-blind contexts. Article by @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513376
My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this. @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
Negotiating the boundaries of Blackness and naming whiteness: the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent
This article explores the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France. To do so, it centres the voices of two groups with conn...
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Negotiating the boundaries of #Blackness and naming #whiteness: The racialisation and identity formation process of #FrenchCitizensOfIndianDescent Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya The University of Manchester Coming soon! #Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation