This special series introduces three key anti-racist activists in the UK – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean and Len Garrison – illuminating how they show us what anti-racism means and how their work and ideas speak to sociology.
Les Back and Nirmal Puwar’s landmark 2012 work Live Methods is the focus of a collection of eight new papers published in The Sociological Review journal as a Special Section.
Before his untimely death last month, Michael Burawoy talked to Michaela Benson about being relevant to the world, teaching Gaza and why sociologists must stand up to Trump.
Iris Pissaride and Juliette Wilson-Thomas, our magazine’s newly appointed editors, share their plans to host insightful discussions, amplify diverse voices and engage creatively with social issues.
A sociological pub quiz, two journal Special Issues, Connected Sociologies educational resources, Monograph guest editorship opportunities, and watch our Gender, Class and Sociology Today conversation with Bev Skeggs, Jo Littler and Michaela Benson.
Parenting is hard – and tackling its challenges without help from family, community or government is harder still, writes Rosie Buckland.
Stereotyping, intrusive questions and outright disbelief: Sayaka Mikoshiba hears how it feels to be treated as an outsider in your own country.
Playgrounds to sports pitches, lecture halls to factory floors: Miriam Reynoldson explores how games evolve and why breaking the rules helps us to see things differently.
Juliette Wilson-Thomas looks back on her doctoral research, its links to feminism and how she grappled with methodological challenges.
The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Monthly, with an expert guest, hosts Rosie and Alexis grab hold of a commonplace notion – ANXIETY! DESIRE! BURNOUT! FAT! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space to question assumptions – and imagine better ways of living, together.
How can we confront gaps in the archive when researching anti-racist activism? How do we depict whole collectives of actors and movements, while also celebrating leading individuals? What’s at stake if we think too narrowly about “output” and “impact” in the lives of non-academics? And why are some figures canonised while others remain less well known to many?
Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.
“Feminist visualisations are about opening up knowledge and ways of knowing,” says visual researcher Hannah Buckler. “If someone is really treating you with care, you can make work with care,” adds illustrator Candice Purwin. “If academia disconnects itself from that world, whose interests is it really serving?” asks visual artist Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Three feminist Image-Makers in Residence in dialogue.
Feminist visualisations: On the left: Ori, collage by Juno Halina Rauber-Baio (2024); in the centre: still from the introduction video of the project We Can Be Both by Hannah Buckler (2024); on the right: Joyce, illustration from the Teenage Kicks collection by Candice Purwin (2020).
Copyright 2020–2024 Juno Halina Rauber-Baio, Hannah Buckler and Candice Purwin. All rights reserved.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.
The Lowry, Salford
10–12 September 2024
The Sociological Review Foundation’s Undisciplining II conference took place from 10 to 12 September 2024 in Salford, England. Academics and educators, artists and activists, and thinkers and doers across many fields came together to ask: “Who is sociology for?”
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an urgent issue. It exemplifies matters of power, inequality, and the destruction of social worlds.
