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Summer 2024 ethnography recommendation: Grazia Deng: Chinese Espresso (Princeton University Press)

I spent election night 2019 with many other pple in Chingford &WG helping get the vote out for the hugely popular Faiza Shaheen. This baseless Orwellian action is part of a wider undemocratic authoritarian purge of the left & is rightly widely seen as misogynistic & racist

Heft 2/24 des Berliner Journals für Soziologie ist erschienen!

Das aktuelle @berlinerjournal.bsky.social Heft enthält auch einen Artikel von Lars Meier und mir zu einer Soziologie der Räume des Reichtums ("Auf der Suche nach Grünwald und Grunewald"). link.springer.com/article/10.100….

There is NO convincing financial justification for proposed redundancies Goldsmiths, University of London In fact new HESA data shows it's doing well given the sector hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analy… Time to stop giving millions to private consultancies & reverse the cuts! #NotADoneDeal Goldsmiths UCU

Goldsmiths Management have come back to us after consultation and still plan to make many of us redundant- 133 people. But it is #notadonedeal. Ways to support us. 1. Make a noise! Join this mornings Twitterstorm 2. Donate here to the support fund goldsmithsucu.org/2024/03/25/guc…

Thank you to my LSE colleagues Mike Savage Sam Friedman Suzi Hall & Suki Ali for standing up for me. I’ve been so moved by the solidarity from old and current colleagues and my community. Solidarity is so healing. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Today marks 7 years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives in this preventable tragedy. They were victims of corporate greed and institutional neglect. The fight for justice is far from over. #Justice4Grenfell

Sending love and solidarity to my Sociology, Goldsmiths friends and colleagues today. I can't get my head around the scale and brutality of the redundancies. The hardship fund is here: goldsmithsucu.org/support-fund/

In this new article I mix together reflections on my own university experience in a particular time and place with a discussion of the types of 'university carewashing' happening today. Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Did you attend Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference, or got FOMO if not? Want to hear from the likes of @sergemont, Colin McFarlane and many others? We’ve got you covered with our miniseries #WalkingTheCityWith... kicking off our brand new #UrbanStudiespodcast! urbanstudiesonline.com/podcast/

This is quite simply an extraordinary book - like all great sociological arguments it reveals the whole structure of society through one thing - in this case poetry. The best book I have read in recent memory.

Schöner Bericht in der Soziopolis über unser Panel "Klassenübergänge - Bildungsaufstieg im Spiegel gesellschaftlichen Wandels" bei der DGS Sektionenkonferenz 😊

Delighted my new article is out in B Jl Sociology of Ed (bjse.bsky.social). It explores how elite students from Germany and Romania understand the role of talent, effort, and structural factors in shaping educational success tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Every PM in my lifetime has promised to increase social mobility - Starmer talks about ‘breaking the class ceiling’, but again and again the approach is fundamentally flawed. Why do our politicians keep using social mobility as a litmus test for our society and how difficult is

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Violence among the urban poor is not what it looks like. In this article, Javier Auyero & Sofía Servián work to understand how the state, through its police forces, produces interpersonal harm tinyurl.com/y6wn8cu9

Huge congratulations to Mike Savage on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! 🎉 Mike joins only eight other European sociologists who are Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. buff.ly/IEKUgNy

I am happy to share that our new edited collection is out today open access! taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…

LSE's inaugural Impact Prizes, recognising excellent engagement, impact, and impact culture, were awarded last week.... 🏆 Miro Born won "Outstanding PhD researcher impact", for excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research 🥈 Kate Summers