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Uncommon Sense Season 3 Podcast returns with new ten-part series and fundraising campaign

Lively, listenable and sociologically informed, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone. Returning on 15 March for its third season, the acclaimed podcast’s ten new episodes will feature special guests in conversation with hosts Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong as they take a closer look at issues that touch us all, from privilege to paperwork and burnout to joy.

Concurrent with the launch of the third season of the Sociological Review Foundation’s flagship podcast, a fundraising campaign will give listeners the opportunity to support future Uncommon Sense episodes via one-off or regular donations.

Arbër Gashi

Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.

Arbër Gashi, a London-based historian and visual storyteller of Kosovar heritage, delves into family archives to share the story of how and why he founded Balkanism, a cultural platform that looks at the connected histories of the Balkans.

A vintage sepia-toned photo of four White people featuring a young woman in a floral dress, a young man in a casually worn suit and another young woman in intricate traditional attire standing in a row while an older woman in dark clothing with a light-toned hair band is sitting in front of them.

Detail of an old family photo: Arbër’s grandparents – Ibrahim and Rabije Qerka – on their wedding day (1955, Prishtina, Kosovo).

Copyright 2024 Arbër Gashi’s family archive. All rights reserved.

45 Years of Manufacturing Consent: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal

Deadline for expressions of interest:

The Sociological Review is now inviting expressions of interest to contribute to a forthcoming Special Section of the journal, focusing on sociologist Michael Burawoy’s 1979 book Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism.

Connected Sociologies

The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is a project of The Sociological Review. It is an educational platform that provides open-access resources for students, teachers and academics who are interested in decolonising school, college and university curricula.

Toussaint Louverture by Jeanne Menjoulet licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Resurrecting the Black Body by Tonia Sutherland

Reviewed by Sulagna Basu
Tonia Sutherland
Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife
University of California Press,  2023
DOI:  doi.org/10.1525/9780520383883

Tonia Sutherland’s Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife crafts a masterful critique of the opportunities digital technologies offer for documenting and (re)presenting Black people after they die.

Spatial Delight

Spatial Delight is a ten-part podcast about space, society and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from a contested waterfront in Kochi to the Egyptian desert, this series seeks to inspire listeners to think about space and place as full of power, and to imagine political alternatives to the current world order. Presented, written and produced by Dr Agata Lisiak, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and hosted by The Sociological Review.

Politics After the Pandemic

In Politics After the Pandemic, anthropologist Erica Lagalisse looks transnationally at cultural changes in the wake of the pandemic, its impact on capitalism and other structures of oppression, and considers how social movements, educators and researchers are responding. In a three-part mini-series, she speaks with Elżbieta Drążkiewicz about “conspiracy theory” as social critique.

Discover Society

Discover Society is a free online magazine of social research, analysis, and commentary.

Remembering Ranajit Guha Volume 4, Issue 1

Edited by John Holmwood, Discover Society’s first issue of 2024 remembers Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), the Indian historian, scholar and founding spirit of subaltern studies who led a long life of political engagement and scholarly reflection. Contributors: Alice Corble, Adi Cooper, Sanjay Seth, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Maya Unnithan, Jane Cowan and Moushumi Bhowmik.

Image: Professor Ranajit Guha

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