The Sociological Review

The Sociological Review and COVID-19

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February 1, 2020

The Sociological Review has been publishing high quality and innovative articles for over 100 years. During this time we have steadfastly remained a journal that pushes the boundaries of sociological enquiry, selecting papers of immediate and lasting significance. Our tradition extends to research that is anthropological or philosophical in orientation and analytical or ethnographic in approach. […]

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Fiction

Call for Sociological Fiction

We are seeking submissions of sociological short stories that critically and creatively explore the social as well as the politics and consequences of sociology itself.

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Radical Care

Caring Labour and the Academy

March 31, 2020

Erica Lagalisse When women discuss the private sphere in public, subversion resides in both the form and content of the action. I wrote these words almost ten years ago now, in a piece called “Gossip as Direct Action” published by Pluto Press. I was commenting on the social dynamics of anarchist activist collectives, based on […]

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Radical Care

Care-full engagements: researching recovery from alcohol and other drugs (AOD)

March 27, 2020

Lena Theodoropoulou In October 2016 I started conducting empirical research with people in recovery from AOD[1]. Through the oral and visual narratives of service-users engaging with two recovery services, one in Liverpool, UK and one in Athens, Greece, I followed the connections emerging between the two fieldsites. As part of my empirical research with the […]

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Radical Care

Which came first, community or care? Observations of informal care among the elderly

March 20, 2020

Taru Silvonen Communities are often depicted as sources of various social resources from social capital to social support and informal care. Yet, social resources do not grow out of nothing and require communal settings where they can prosper. This blog examines the provision of informal care among older citizens in a community centre in Mexico […]

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Event Reports

Making sense of the self through decolonisation

Riadh Ghemmour Once, an individual who took part in my PhD research told me, ‘research is a cure’ and in fact, research should help us understand who we are, why we exist, and what we are living for. Here, I discuss my journey in finding the self in research, through a process of decolonisation. I […]

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On Principles for Decolonial research: Reflections on ‘love’ by the ‘colonized colonizer’

By Ahmed Raza Memon The Sociological Research Foundation’s Early Career Workshop with Prof. Linda Tuhiwai Smith made me think about aspects of work that we, as researchers, rarely touch upon, for example love. ‘Not the toxic territorial’ love – as Prof Tuhiwai Smith pointed out – but the one of compassion to those we engage […]

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Decolonising Methodologies – A Review of TSR’s Annual Lecture, 2019

By Carol Ann Dixon The Sociological Review’s Annual Lecture was given by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Titled “Decolonising Methodologies: 20 Years On,” the talk featured personal reflections on approaches to undertaking qualitative research, two decades after her internationally-renowned Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999) was first published. The lecture […]

Fiction

Fiction: Karachi

By Shama Dossa ‘Granny’s Theory’ By Zeeshan Sahil Granny says The world is balanced on a cow’s horn. When it gets tired Of carrying the whole world On its horn The cow shifts the world to the other horn. Getting moved From one to the other, For a few minutes. The world is shaken up. […]