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The Sociological Review’s 2019 Annual Public Lecture – Decolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On
Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019, 17.45-20.00, followed by drinks reception Location: Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW The event has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation and supported by the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Decolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On The Sociological Review is delighted to announce that our 2019 Annual Public Lecture will be given by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (University of Waikato, New Zealand) to mark the 20 […]
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Transnational Feminist Solidarity in a Postcolonial World
Understanding shared struggles
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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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Book Review: Self Injury
Review by Veronica Heney Veronica Heney reviews Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?: Understanding Self-harm in Social Life by Baptiste Brossard (Indiana University Press, 2018), and Self-injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies by Amy Chandler (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Baptiste Brossard is lecturer in sociology at the Australian National University. His research agenda addresses various mental health-related […]
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Down the Pan Book Launch: New Directions in the Sociology of Dirt
Date & Time: 18th October 2019, 6-9 pm Location: Project Café, Glasgow The event has been funded by The Sociological Review Foundation Down the Pan: New Directions in the Sociology of Dirt This event celebrates the publication of Down the Pan, a volume that has brought sociologists together with anthropologists, philosophers, geographers and an activist […]
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Early Career Researchers’ Workshop: Decolonising Methodologies
Date & Time: Thursday 17th October 2019, 09.30-17.00 Location: Friends House, Euston, London The event has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation #TSRECRDAY The Sociological Review’s Early Careers Researchers’ Workshop This early career researchers’ workshop will follow on from The Sociological Review’s Annual Public Lecture 2019 given by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith the evening […]
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Towards a Red Feminist Horizon
University of Leeds Friday, 01st November 2019, 09.00-18.00 The event has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation, CERIC and LSSI, University of Leeds and organised by Dr Kate Hardy (University of Leeds) and Dr Camille Barbagallo (University of Leeds Abstract For the last two decades feminist praxis has been washed in a particular shade […]
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Book Review: Prison: A Survival Guide by Carl Cattermole
Review by Kathryn Medien Prison: A Survival Guide by Carl Cattermole was published by Penguin Random House UK in 2019. Carl Cattermole is an author and public speaker. He has spent time in numerous UK prisons and actively campaigns against the unjust prison system. The book also contains contributions from Sarah Jane Barker, Jon Gulliver, […]
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Fiction: A Bench at the Side of the Road
By Jay Emery Just off to the side of the mini roundabout, where Pit Lane meets the end of the High Street, there’s a commemorative bench, obstinately anchored beside the pavement. Some locals objected when it was first proposed, protesting that the seat shouldn’t be in the Nottinghamshire coalfield at all, but in Yorkshire, where […]
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Taking Stock of Motherhood in the US and Europe Half a Century After Second Wave Feminism
Vanessa May reviews two new books: Making Motherhood Work, by Caitlyn Collins and Heading Home, by Shani Organ
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What Five Sociologists Told Us Their Holiday Reading Will Be
Sociologists share what they will be reading this summer
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Afroeuropeans: Black In/visibilities Contested
A Review of the 7th Biennial Network Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 4-6th July 2019 By Carol Ann Dixon “Black In/visibilities Contested” was the title of the 7th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference, held at the ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), University of Lisbon, Portugal, 4-6th July 2019. In keeping with previous gatherings, this transdisciplinary event […]
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Dynamic Lives, Dynamic Identities: Representing Agency and Victimhood Within the Lives of Women in Sex Work
It is possible for two contrasting accounts of sex work to co-exist
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A Habitus Listening Guide for Exploring Educational and Social Inequality
An alternative approach that enables us to hear the complex poly-vocal voices of those living in poverty
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Marching towards Decolonisation: Notes and Reflections
There is tension emerging between the desire for both an inclusive and undiluted global decolonial agenda
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