Had a great time presenting at KISMIF conference in Porto on DIY Culture & Critical Imagination. Very much needed. Thank you to the organisers & speakers.
Natanya Mark
@nmdlb.bsky.social
PhD Student in Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
1/3 We are very pleased to announce the publication of not one but two new Sociological & Cultural Studies blogs this month.
3/3 In ‘Urban ethnography and walking Nan Shepherd’s mountain’, Natanya Mark @nmdlb.bsky.social takes up a lesson from Nan Shepherd about how we might properly attend to the places we inhabit. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
Urban ethnography and walking Nan Shepherd’s mountain.
Natanya Mark explores a lesson from Nan Shepherd about how we might properly attend to the places we inhabit.
gla.ac.uk
Pleased to announce that our latest Sociological & Cultural Studies blog has just been published. In 'What is wrong with climate change journalism?' @dominicmhinde.bsky.social asks why contemporary journalism has been so poor at facing up to the planetary consequences of climate change. Pls share!
What is wrong with climate change journalism?
Dominic Hinde reflects on the failure of contemporary journalism to reckon with the planetary consequences of climate change.
gla.ac.uk
My film Pipe Dreams: Festival of Community will be screened at Ethnografilm in Paris, Saturday 4th April with a directors’ Q&A. Come through if you’re in town!
Advance notice of this seminar - Islamophobia and anti-racism: ongoing lessons for the ‘British left - taking place next Friday 13th with @scarletharris.bsky.social. Scarlet's book has just been published by MUP (below). 11-1 in Room 416 in the Gilbert Scott building, East Quadrangle. All welcome.
Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris
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We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.
Away from the faeries: the rehabilitation of Tam Lin.
Fergus McNeill asks: 'what does an old Scottish folk-tale have to teach us about the meaning of rehabilitation?'
gla.ac.uk
We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Teaching Migration Otherwise' @teresap.bsky.social shares critical lessons for how we might teach migration in the classroom.
Teaching Migration Otherwise: Ethics, Discomfort, and Critical Pedagogy in Practice
Teresa Piacentini shares lessons for how we might teach migration in the classroom.
gla.ac.uk
WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025 Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé. buff.ly/742ITKk @uofgsociology.bsky.social
The latest entry in our Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In ‘Populism, anti-populism, and the politics of the ‘left behinds’, Salomé Ietter reflects on a forgotten history of progressive populism and its significance today. Please do share and circulate.
Populism, anti-populism, and the politics of the ‘left behinds’.
Salomé Ietter reflects on a forgotten history of progressive populism and its significance today.
gla.ac.uk
Graduated my Sociology Masters of Research at University of Glasgow with Distinction, part of my SGSSS funded PhD programme. Thanks to all who’ve inspired & supported me along the way - excited for the journey ahead!
Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship - intended to support early career researchers whose work is informed by, and seeks to extend, progressive and radical traditions of critical investigation broadly conceived: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/joResearchb/...
Research Assistant (Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship)
Job Purpose This postdoctoral writing fellowship has been established in recognition of Neil Davidson’s enduring work as historian, theorist, teacher and activist. The fellowship is intended to sup...
jobs.gla.ac.uk
With the start of the latest round of the Ashes, Andy Smith reflects on the extent to which English cricket has become a game for the elite. 👉 Read our latest Sociological and Cultural Studies blog piece here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
‘It’s a bit clandestine, a bit punk’: the guerrilla scheme letting skint artists mass-share gallery membership cards
‘It’s a bit clandestine, a bit punk’: the guerrilla scheme letting skint artists mass-share gallery membership cards
Now 600 strong, the Artist Membership Project is helping young artists see exhibitions while dodging hefty entry fees at top British institutions. We meet the founder of the scheme
theguardian.com
Join GLARN for a Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America workshop and film screening with Dr Charlotte Gleghorn this Thursday 16 October exploring textual film analysis and cinema as collaboration. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-c...
Festival of Community: Pipe Dreams, a film by PhD Student @nmdlb.bsky.social is available to view online as part of the Visual Sociology IVSA Film Festival 2025 programme @visualsociology.bsky.social , running until 4 July. visualsociology.org/2025-visuali...
2025 Visualista Film Festival
The Visualista Film Festival is organised by the International Visual Sociology Association, and is usually held during our annual conference which moves to a different international venue each year. ...
visualsociology.org
My film Festival of Community: Pipe Dreams, is now screening online as part of the Visual Sociology IVSA Film Festival 2025 programme @visualsociology.bsky.social , running until 4 July. visualsociology.org/2025-visuali...
2025 Visualista Film Festival
The Visualista Film Festival is organised by the International Visual Sociology Association, and is usually held during our annual conference which moves to a different international venue each year. ...
visualsociology.org
Really nice exhibition for anyone passing through Marseille! Would recommend, at the Old Charity Centre.
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/sM4Uta3
Wonderful project my sister has been involved in organising @irenetaylortrust.bsky.social (free) tickets available for the London performance on Friday 23 May, 2.30pm. richmix.org.uk/book-online/...
Excellent speakers in Glasgow for the launch of this brilliant book The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity by the ever generous @ptheodoropoulos.bsky.social
Very happy to see my first article out in the world. Thanks to my supervisors Ali Wedderburn and @tsolomon.bsky.social, and to @risjnl.bsky.social for the massive support!
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics
cambridge.org
My latest film documents Pipe Dreams X Festival of Community at Staffordshire Street Studio in Peckham by Jimi and Madeline Famurewa, a tribute to lost leisure spaces in the UK. You’ll be able to catch my film at the @visualsociology.bsky.social l Film Festival in South Korea in June!
