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Call for Applications: The Sociological Review’s Early Career Researcher Conference Funding 2020

We welcome applications from early career scholars of social science from around the world to support participation in conferences

Transnational Feminist Solidarity in a Postcolonial World

Understanding shared struggles

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.

IIEMCA2019: The practice of positive evaluation as a transition between tasks in educational interaction

By Angeliki Balantani The post-PhD process is not a straightforward one; funding has finished and now you are competing for funding bids for a postdoc with other scholars from a range of social sciences. It can be a frustrating and demotivating process. Two years after completing my PhD, I was accepted to present at two […]

Reviews

Book Review: Veiling in Fashion by Anna-Mari Almila

Review by Naaz Rashid Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities by Anna-Mari Almila was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. Anna-Mari Almila is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She writes in the fields of cultural, global and historical sociology, and her […]

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2020 Seminar Series Competition Results

Congratulations to the successful candidates for this year’s Sociological Review Seminar Series competition: Konstanze Spohrer, Rosie Germain, Carly Bagelman for a single seminar event entitled Funds of Knowledge for the 21st century: Towards pedagogical justice in diverse societies, Liverpool Hope University. Lakshmi Bose, Rebecca Gordon, Arif Naveed, Sharon Walker for a single seminar event entitled The Visual and Critical […]

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Book Review: Regeneration Songs

This is the first time I’ve listened to a soundtrack, to read a book, which is influenced by a three-minute soundless film and it was a refreshing and immersive experience.

Event Reports

Artful Fat: Lessons from Leeds

By Daisy May Barker On the 9th of April 2019 I escaped a day of frantic dissertation writing to make the journey to Leeds University for the ‘Artful Fat’ symposium. The event was hosted by Karen Throsby and Bethan Evans, and funded by The Sociological Review. I was drawn to the event due to my […]

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After Progress: Plural Potentialities (Seminar 3)

Date & Time: Friday 29th November 2019, 14:00 – 18:30 GMT Location: London Bridge Hive, 1 Melior Place, London Bridge, London, SE1 3SZ In the course of the first two After Progress symposia it has become apparent that, rather than an idea to be criticised, “progress” names instead an entire array of capitalist, colonial and […]

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Book Review: Compiling Maxwell Street

October 10, 2019

Review by Nirmal Puwar Review Essay of Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place (2019) by Tim Cresswell, University of Chicago Press. Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He completed a doctorate in geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison under the supervision of Yi-Fu Tuan (1992) In 2013 he […]

Fiction

Fiction: Stealth Love

By Massimo Airoldi Aripiprazole: bingo! Side effects: orthostatic hypotension and cardiac arrhythmia. Precisely what I need to fool the health-tracking pillow kindly provided by our apprehensive HR colleagues, and enjoy an unpredictable day trip on an otherwise hectic Monday morning. I close the bathroom cupboard, put my mum’s old smartphone on the nightstand, and kiss […]

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In Defence of Hope: Towards a Sociology of Hope in Crisis Times

September 30, 2019

What is the significance of hope?

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Book Review: The Psychologization of Society by Ole Jacob Madsen

Since their historical emergence in Europe in the late 19th century, unprecedented growth especially in North America throughout the 20th century, and increasingly global spread towards the end of that century and into the early 21st century, psychology as a scientific discipline, and psychotherapy as a field of professional practice, have been extensively charted by what is now a vibrant multi-disciplinary network of scholars comprising historians, sociologists and cultural critics, along with psychologists and psychotherapists – who themselves have long been in the business of writing commentaries and histories of their own disciplines, theoretical schools and scientific and therapeutic practices.

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Convivial Encounters in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

September 19, 2019

What are the experiences of people who travel for cosmetic surgery?

Reviews

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 […]

Events

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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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 […]