Georgia Clancy Despite mainstream sociology being slow to apply the lens of risk to reproduction (Oakley, 2016) the language, knowledge, practices and negotiation of risk and uncertainty permeates childbirth and opens up a wealth of ideas and arguments about risk (Possamai-Inesedy, 2006). Indeed, Scamell (2011) argues that risk has come to underpin the development of […]
Read MoreMadeleine Rungius The intricate connection between affect and imagination leaves room for creative methodological and theoretical exploration. This is the case when prison reports by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons are discursively analysed to explore the prison as an affective institution of the state within broader structures of morality. Prison reports are characterised through bureaucratic, […]
Read MoreSophie Wootton After spending many hours in Dudley, learning about the local area’s pivotal role in the industrial revolution, getting to know more about Black Country heritage and customs and spending hours sitting in and wandering through public spaces, I began to develop a sense of the town imbued with layers that go beyond its […]
Read MoreRachel Fishberg European academics were promised a transnational utopia for research with the potential for the ‘free flow’ of knowledge across European borders and disciplinary boundaries. The assurance came in the form of the EU’s most recent funding scheme, Horizon 2020. The programme is unique both in its financial pull i.e. the potential for millions […]
Read MoreGeneration Share. The change-makers building the Sharing Economy (2019) by Benita Matofska and Sophie Sheinwald, published by Policy Press. Benita Matofska is an international public speaker, change-maker and world-leading expert on the Sharing Economy. She tweets @benitamatofska. Sophie Sheinwald is a photographer and visual storyteller. She tweets @sophie_snap. Review by Mayya Shmidt, 17th December 2020. What […]
Read MoreRomain Chenet There is a slipperiness to poststructural discourse analysis and explaining this seems to either enthuse or repel interest. It does not help there is no genuine unity to poststructuralism or agreement on what discourse is, with the concepts informed by loosely knit critical efforts joined concretely only in rejecting or questioning binarily-presented social […]
Read MoreVanessa Wintoneak Derbarl Yerrigan is a significant river that runs 175 kilometers through Whadjuk Country in Western Australia. I have been walking with Derbarl Yerrigan, educators, and young children for a year and a half with a focus on generating climate change pedagogies. This work is necessary as Earth, and all of its inhabitants, are […]
Read MoreRebecca Porter The aim of my research is to explore disabled people’s experiences of claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The current Conservative government are engaging in necropolitics at the expense of disabled peoples’ human rights, affecting their quality of life. Who counts as disabled in the U.K? This is question has been asked in different […]
Read MoreSherif Youssef Zygmunt Bauman used liquidity as a metaphorical frame to provide a thorough analysis of the predicaments of modernity in the current human condition underscored by globalisation and hyper consumerism. One of the key features of liquidity in is the intensified elements of risk and uncertainty that characterise our everyday lives. Thinking about methodology […]
Read MoreRituparna Patgiri It was a casual evening chat between a fellow researcher and me, sometime in December of 2018. I remember this vividly because both of us were returning from a research methods workshop that we had attended together in Guwahati. She asked me what my favourite drink was. I replied that I do not […]
Read MoreThis month we are highlighting the excellent work of PGR students on our digital platforms. Many PGRs will be thinking about publishing their work, and we spoke to Laura Clancy whose 2020 paper ‘The corporate power of the British monarchy: Capital(ism), wealth and power in contemporary Britain’ was published in The Sociological Review and was […]
Read MoreWhy Race Still Matters (2020) by Alana Lentin, published by Polity. Alana Lentin is an Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is an antiracist race critical scholar who works on the critical theorisation of race, racism and anti-racism. Her latest book is Why Race Still Matters (Polity, 2020). She […]
Read MoreThis month our Digital Theme celebrates Postgraduate Research, and we are delighted to have Hannah Ayres as Image-Maker in Residence. You can see Hannah’s images over on our Instagram throughout the month. Find us at thesociologicalreview. Imagine walking into an ‘official space’, such as a museum, and seeing nothing that resembles you. There are no […]
Read MoreThis month we are shining a light on PhD research. Read about the intellectual currents being pursued by the next generation of sociological thinkers.
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