Silke Roth
@silkeroth.bsky.social
sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Final call! Just a handful of places remain for Live Methods with Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Registration closes at midnight on Monday 3 August. This course won't be running again for a while, so don't miss your chance to join us. buff.ly/LCytOtC
Really looking forward to this pair of evening workshops next week on Live Sociology. There are still places; all proceeds go back to the Foundation to support sociology. @thesociologicalreview.org
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
Applications are now open for Strictly Come Writing 2026! 📍 Beautiful Gladstone's Library, North Wales 📅 11–13 November ⏰ Apply by 10 September Three days of focused writing, support & community for early career researchers. Apply here: buff.ly/4CeAhWs #WritingRetreat #AcademicWriting #Sociology
“Hype underscores a paradox. Capitalism seems to reward expert storytellers irrespective of the truthfulness of their projected narrative.” Konstantinos Poulis and co-authors examine hype, entrepreneurship and the concept of “worthwashing”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/w5HJsKx
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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Was bitter ist: Medienberichte haben sich überschlagen über die Niederlage Orbáns. Die Verbindungslinien dazu, wie der autoritäre Umbau in Ungarn begann in Bezug auf Presse, Zivilgesellschaft, Arbeit … werden von deutschen Journalist*innen bei den Reformen hier kaum gezogen.
Maximilian Pichl@maxpichl.bsky.social · last mo.Ich finde es bemerkenswert wie viele journalistische Kommentare die Ergebnisse des Koalitionsausschuss loben "um der Reformen willen" - und dabei die de facto Aushöhlung des #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz nicht mal erwähnen. Ein Gesetz, das für ihren eigenen Beruf enorm wichtig ist.
⭐🎨 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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New Conversations event! How can sociology help us make sense of 2026 so far? Join Carolyn Pedwell, Siniša Malešević & Mariam Motamedi Fraser, chaired by Miranda Iossifidis, for an online discussion on AI, empathy, accountability, social change and more. 📅 8 July | 1–2pm BST 🎟️ buff.ly/K5Evv8c
This made me smile even though it’s absolutely true 😝😝😝
Ergänzend - wir haben das Ende der kritischen Managementforschung und der politischen Ökonomie in Leicester auch in Buchform aufgearbeitet: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...
Shaping for Mediocrity from Zer0 Books
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what wa...
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How higher education is vandalised in the UK. Here is our last published annual report (www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/univ...) containing info about "a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balance of £211m."
Exeter claims that our financial situation is dire. Yet in 2023/4 the execs awarded themselves a 12% pay rise, because they couldn't get a bonuses since they hadn't met key performance indicators. I guess if you decimate the faculty, get AI to teach & destroy education, you deserve a raise.
We still need your signatures please. Sign if you are opposed to these deep cuts please.
Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · last mo.Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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As our union indicates "If just the 16 highest-paid execs capped their salary at £120k, we’d save more money than all the cuts to Archeology & History!"
“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...
Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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If you are interested in doing research differently please come and be part of this conversation. All proceeds go to supporting the work of the foundation and funding sociology.
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last mo.📢 Early bird tickets available! Join Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring #LiveMethods and creative approaches to sociological research. 📅 4 & 18 August 🎟️ Early bird tickets until 24 June buff.ly/0iwnvNw #Sociology #ResearchMethods
Anticolonial psychiatrist and theorist Frantz #Fanon is oft-cited by sociologists. Here, @juliango.bsky.social describes what it was like to seek out Fanon’s work in #gradschool and to sit with the author’s #writing and rage… buff.ly/d0azKVa
🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
Came accross two interesting new papers on the functional role of "grand theory" for the disciplinary identity of sociology. Sociology of sociology meets epistemological self-reflection. Monika Krause's journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and Döpking et al.'s journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Our latest #bookreviews come from Hannah Farrimond, Jesse Callahan Bryant, Eirini Ktori and Madhuri Kamtam. @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social, @irenektori.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social Read The Sociological Review magazine. #OpenAccess. buff.ly/HcfvZUa
📢🚨Job Alert🚨📢 Do you work on critical approaches to militarism, war, and technology? Then come and work with us at the University of Amsterdam! Just two days left to apply. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science, Specialization in International Relations
<p>Are you an enthusiastic international relations scholar with a passion for education? Do you conduct research at and on the intersections of militarism, war, and technology? Are you interested in w...
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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
We're delighted to support the Class, Culture & Discontents Summer School this July! Free to attend and bringing together scholars working on class, culture & inequality. We'll also be sharing resources from our Connected Sociologies project. buff.ly/YY5FcK1 #Sociology #Class #Culture
Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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My latest article, open access! 'Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World' examines the collapsing liberal world order through a decolonial lens and argues that this is just one end of many ends of worlds, suggesting productive ways forward towards future humanitarianisms doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World
Abstract. Western humanitarianism’s spatiotemporal zone of action and mode of operations is crisis. Western humanitarianism and humanitarians should be in
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