The irony of reading about enclosures on the most restrictive ebook I've ever seen: no copy and paste allowed, can't download a chapter (only 10 pages every 24h via library credentials). Academic books are not meant to be read, publishers just need to sell (highly restricted) digital access

🚨 New Open Access publication In my new paper in Social Justice Research, I explore how migration experiences—and crucially, when migration happens—shape attitudes toward distributive justice. 📖 Read the full (open access) paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Really happy to see my new article on far-right politics, touristification and the ‘political economy of taste’ published in @bjsociology.bsky.social (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and dr...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Stuart Hall (unexpectedly) on Italianness. From now on I'll be 'the chewy spaghetti at the bottom of the English bowl of pasta'

I’m really happy to see this open-access article finally out doi.org/10.1111/anti... It explores ‘varieties of racial capitalism’ through the experiences of Black and Muslim Italians who moved to Britain during the 2010s and sometimes returned to Italy (or moved elsewhere) 1/5

Varieties of Racial Capitalism: Black and Muslim Italians' Unequal Migrations Between Italy and Post‐Brexit Britain

This article advances debates on racial capitalism by reconceptualising it as globally connected yet regionally uneven, and as negotiated and resisted through unequal migrations. Drawing on interview...

doi.org

#sociologicalplaylist 6: Stuart Hall's posthumous autobiography. I suggest digging into it to find out what he thought about (among other things) race & class, diaspora, identity politics & Zionism in his later years.

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

#sociologicalplaylist 5: a fascinating ethnography of trap music, aspirations and music-making among young migrants and minoritised Italians in Milan (in the context of moral panics about 'maranza', police violence & institutional racism). Really important work & beautifully written (in Italian)

New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians liv....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

#sociologicalplaylist 4: a recent Italian translation of Lea Ypi's work on class and migration. She's a political theorist & sociologists would learn significantly from how she recentres class in debates about migration & racism. The original essays are in English (probably easy to find via GS)

No emails in the last 4 hours... everyone is marking 😅

I’m really happy to see this open-access article finally out doi.org/10.1111/anti... It explores ‘varieties of racial capitalism’ through the experiences of Black and Muslim Italians who moved to Britain during the 2010s and sometimes returned to Italy (or moved elsewhere) 1/5

Varieties of Racial Capitalism: Black and Muslim Italians' Unequal Migrations Between Italy and Post‐Brexit Britain

This article advances debates on racial capitalism by reconceptualising it as globally connected yet regionally uneven, and as negotiated and resisted through unequal migrations. Drawing on interview...

doi.org

#sociologicalplaylist 3: Jonathan Dean's article on 'left politics in the age of the social media influencer'. A really sharp analysis of UK-US online left culture. Sadly Jonathan is no longer with us, I wish I'd known him better (met him briefly years ago). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From solidarity to self-promotion? Neoliberalism and left politics in the age of the social media influencer - Jonathan Dean, 2024

The aim of this article is to map the contested intersections of influencer culture and left/progressive politics within the current conjuncture. Furthermore, d...

journals.sagepub.com

#sociologicalPlaylist p2, Alessandra Lembo's study of country music fans and their taste trajectories. A criminally under-cited paper (ethnographies of music taste using Bourdieu but in a critical way are as rare as unicorns) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Three chords & [somebody’s] truth: Trajectories of experience and taste among hard country fans

To date, much social scientific work on taste has relied on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to account for changes in tastes across the life course. But…

sciencedirect.com

I might start a #sociologicalPlaylist (books, articles etc. I think should be rediscovered). Here's Sayer's Why Things Matter to People, a masterpiece on everyday ethics & morality. Philosophically powered but crystal-clear writing that takes time, care & craft www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Why Things Matter to People

Cambridge Core - Social Theory - Why Things Matter to People

cambridge.org

Add growing emigration to this and UK politics will soon experience 'postcolonial panic attacks' rather than the usual 'postcolonial melancholia'

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We have a UK government intellectually and psychologically unprepared to cope with potential labour shortages or market crashes because these scenarios don't match entreched assumptions about the trajectory of the global order

I wrote ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle’. It tells the story of working-class communities in post-industrial cities explaining the challenges they face and showing how they struggle with them. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to Bluesky. If you're a writer, don't forget to TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK!

This article by @simov.bsky.social on Black and Muslim Italians navigating post-Brexit Britain brings double consciousness into the realities of global mobility. It's a sharp, thoughtful take on how opportunity, recognition, and belonging collide. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians liv....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Labour's announcements on asylum seem part of an 'anything goes' tendency started by the Conservative governments, essentially going towards reneging on basic international law obligations. The confusion in announcements makes it clear that it is about electoral signalling rather than policy itself

New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians liv....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Probably the days of 'excited to announce' are over, but I got an article accepted in a geography journal, which *is* exciting because I was crap at geography in school 😅

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcv5...

James Senese & Napoli Centrale - Campagna

YouTube video by Arrevuoto

youtube.com

This looks great: “A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality

“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality - Qualitative Sociology

In this paper I introduce and explicate the concept of “class blindness,” and show how it works to obscure and justify class inequality even in a small community in which social divisions are well recognized. Similar to the concept of color-blind racism, class blindness is a discursive strategy to erase and minimize class privilege and the social processes by which class inequality is created and perpetuated. Denial of these processes, and the social-structural roots of class advantage and disadvantage, undermines efforts to effectively address societal problems born of social class inequality. I show how class blindness allows those with privilege to police their social positions and secure resource hoarding within a community while holding the disadvantaged personally responsible for their struggles. I further describe how class blindness allows advantaged individuals to express concern about social problems including poverty and inequality in the abstract, while acting in ways that contribute to its perpetuation on the micro and the macro levels. This qualitative case study, based in 84 interviews and 10 months of participant observation with individuals across the class spectrum, illustrates the processes that contribute to the reproduction of social inequality even among those whose ideological stances include commitment to its reduction.

link.springer.com

Rediscovering this great track & album youtu.be/W3Ud0UG7JbQ?...

Underworld - Push Upstairs

YouTube video by Underworld

youtu.be

“The far-right’s emphasis on culture conveniently obscures economic inequalities between different factions of the working- and lower-middle class: everyone becomes a ‘lad at the pub’” – @simov.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗

How working-class culture became an elite game

From Nigel Farage's pints of ale to Giorgia Meloni's tomato selfies, how are working-class tastes weaponised by the leaders of far-right political parties?

buff.ly

I wrote a blog about how far-right leaders use ordinary tastes & 'working-class' identifications as political weapons (with some extra focus on Meloni, her cultural politics & policies). Plus other considerations about the 'political economy' of cultural taste blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

How working-class culture became an elite game

From Nigel Farage's pints of ale to Giorgia Meloni's tomato selfies, how are working-class tastes weaponised by the leaders of far-right political parties?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

I wrote a blog about how far-right leaders use ordinary tastes & 'working-class' identifications as political weapons (with some extra focus on Meloni, her cultural politics & policies). Plus other considerations about the 'political economy' of cultural taste blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

How working-class culture became an elite game

From Nigel Farage's pints of ale to Giorgia Meloni's tomato selfies, how are working-class tastes weaponised by the leaders of far-right political parties?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

How is cultural taste used as a political weapon? @simov.bsky.social argues that far-right leaders give public performances of working-class tastes as part of a conscious political strategy. What does this reveal? And what does it conveniently obscure? #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗 buff.ly/IRzaJJI

How working-class culture became an elite game

From Nigel Farage's pints of ale to Giorgia Meloni's tomato selfies, how are working-class tastes weaponised by the leaders of far-right political parties?

buff.ly

This looks really interesting, 'Expansive Vision: Re-thinking Race and Class Divides in the French Banlieue' muse.jhu.edu/article/948153