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Digital Social Life
Instagram on the Plate: Consuming Food Digitally
Rituparna Patgiri Ritu – What are you doing for dinner tonight? Pallavi – I am cooking. Wait, let me send you the photos. Ritu – Oh! This looks so good. I want! After a few days, the same conversation is repeated between the two, with Ritu sharing photos from her dinner this time. In fact, […]
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Exploring Capital in Migrant Digital Communities
Lyndsey Kramer Understanding migration in contemporary society is not possible without acknowledging and reflecting on the role of technology. In this short piece there is firstly a brief reflection on the empirical findings on digital media use by one Latvian migrant group. This group provided the empirical data collected for my PhD research. Further, there […]
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Becoming Ourselves Online: Disabled Transgender Existence In/Through Digital Social Life
Above illustration: ‘Digital Social Life’ by Rocio Egio (2021) Christian J. Harrison Social media enables trans disabled people to discover possibilities of identity through integral connections and community building. However, life online is not a ubiquitous existence for all and is dependent upon identity and community standing. To understand fully digital social life, it is […]
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Academic Bodies in Quarantine: Dance Writers as Dancing Bodies
Lito Tsitsou and Lucy Weir As scholars of dance, separated by disciplinary boundaries, we have spent a decade seeking ways to work collaboratively. Throughout the period of lockdown, we have explored the convergence of our work anew, embarking on an exploration of our individual and joint embodied histories as researchers and dance practitioners – our […]
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Data Dispossession
Catriona Gray From Surveillance Capitalism to Data Colonialism, recent scholarship has characterised processes of extraction and exchange of personal data as a form of dispossession. Many of these works draw on David Harvey’s highly influential, critical reworking of Marx’s account of primitive accumulation: accumulation by dispossession (AbD). Harvey attempts to explain how contemporary capitalist accumulation […]
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Pentecostal Christianity, COVID-19 and the Digital World
Antonio Montañés Jiménez The digital world has become a key medium through which Christians imagine themselves as a global community, reshape their religious practices and communicate religious ideas worldwide. Social media and the internet create digital spaces where believers express their identities and forge images of and narratives about themselves. The adoption of digital technologies […]
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Unsociable Media and the Infrastructures of Everyday Life
Zoetanya Sujon Sequential lockdowns and the grinding threat of the pandemic amplifies the role of digital and social media in organizing, grounding, and framing our social and lived experiences, as well as the complexities of what digital social life means. To really interrogate this question means balancing a series of paradoxes. On one hand, big […]
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Class, Race and Empire: The White Working Class in Historical Perspective
Above illustration: ‘The Great Socialist’ by Anthony Muisyo, 2021. Duncan Money In mid-1946, a group of mineworkers defeated in a bitter strike appealed to Britain’s National Union of Mineworkers for help, and the union’s president and general secretary immediately began preparations to travel to assist them in arbitration hearings. Their intended destination was not, however, […]
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I Think, Therefore I Am Middle Class
Smriti Singh Class’ is one of the most intriguing problems and the most engaging dialogue in social sciences. While everyone thinks they’ve got a handle on it, there is still debate and disagreement even as basic agreement on ‘class’ as an important identity and its salience in studying stratification and social inequality withstands. Most fundamentally […]
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Towards A Social Class Through Emotions
Sandeepan Tripathy “Because ‘the people’ does not exist. What exist are diverse or even antagonistic figures of the people, figures constructed by privileging certain modes of assembling, certain distinctive traits, certain capacities or incapacities: an ethnic people defined by the community of land or blood; a vigilant herding people by good pastureland; a democratic people […]
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Mapping The Margins: The New Middle-Class Story In India
Above illustration: ‘The Great Socialist’ by Anthony Muisyo, 2021. Dhriti Sonowal The capital city of New Delhi is home to a large section of migrants from India’s Northeastern region.For most northeastern migrants in New Delhi, their everyday life is dependent on their capacity to express a dual identity of belonging to a tribal community from […]
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Class Analysis And Social Recognition: Some Tentative Reflections
Carlos Palma Amestoy Class and higher education are intimately connected to the reproduction of social inequalities and aspirations towards universities are mediated by individuals’ class positions. In the case of Chile, I found important distinctions in the way pupils belonging to three theoretical classes approach higher education. Thus, broadly speaking, the members of the dominant […]
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Who Can Tell A Working-Class Story? Examining The Representational Limits Of Class In I, Daniel Blake (2016) And Beyond
Jacqueline Gibbs and Aura Lehtonen Earlier this year, a debate about the film I, Daniel Blake (2016) was reignited on social media in response to a 2019 article by journalist Emma Burnell, where she argued that Ken Loach’s recent films not only ‘preach to the converted’, but also ‘exclude any audience who would find themselves […]
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Can We Free Compulsory School Systems From Class Hierarchies?
Mia Travers-Hayward “… nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class difference than in educational settings.” bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, p. 177 Since reading the work of sociologists examining class stratification in education, I have found it to be a useful way of understanding the disparate academic experiences of children […]
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A Tale of Two Cities: Tackling Class Inequality in Education in Brighton and Hove
Carlie Goldsmith, Ali Ghanimi & Matt Lee Once a seaside town, now a city by the sea, Brighton and Hove has a reputation as a fair and progressive place. A closer look, however, tells a different story. Long term residents will tell you that before the turn of the millennium Brighton was a small, grimy town […]
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