You are invited to join us for the launch of our new books: “Learning and Teaching British Values” by Dr Sadia Habib and “Children’s Literature about Refugees” by Dr Julia Hope. Two Goldsmiths alumni are holding a joint book… Read More ›
Diaspora, Diversity & Difference 
CfP: Forced Migrants in Higher Education
Please distribute in your networks Forced Migrants in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Visibility and Participation A one day conference on 6th September 2017 at The University of Warwick, UK With increasing attention being paid to refugee reception, especially… Read More ›
China’s Millionaire Migration
An interesting documentary about the migration of wealthy Chinese to Vancouver:
CfP: Migration and Crisis in Europe
Sociology 2018 Special Issue — Still time to submit! Sociology’s 2018 special issue will be on the theme of Migration and Crisis in Europe. The issue will be guest edited by Nick Dines, Nicola Montagna and Elena Vacchelli, all at… Read More ›
Call for Papers – Decolonising the University
The point of departure of this special issue for the Dutch Journal of Gender Studies (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies) is the University of Amsterdam’s student occupation in the spring of 2015 and the banner hanging from the front of its main… Read More ›
Historical parallels to the right-wing turn in British politics
A brilliant rant by James O’Brien on the government’s proposal to force firms to publish lists of foreign workers:
Book Review: ‘Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism’
Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism by Sadek Hamid (2016) reviewed by Tamim Sadikali What attracts young Muslims to this type of ephemeral but ferocious activism? One does not have to subscribe to determinist social… Read More ›
Going to extremes: How radical are you? Art education & British values
by Carol Wild Semantic satiation refers to the making strange of words by continual repetition until they become meaningless. Within the discourse surrounding the Fundamental British Values (FBV) since their introduction into schools in 2014 words such as extremism and… Read More ›
We need to understand why it is the beach is full of dying kids
His young life was as delicate as the wing of a butterfly And as fragile as a spider’s web For him we cry Because when he dies We all do Did Ahmed not deserve a life? Ahmed never hurt a… Read More ›
The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism
A rapidly developing discourse which contrasts elite cosmopolitanism with insular populism should be treated more critically than is being done so at present. This interesting article by Ross Douthat takes issue with this supposed cosmpolitanism: Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort… Read More ›
Black women in the academy: ‘inclusion’ or erasure from the social sciences?
BSA Regional Postgraduate Event: Black women in the academy: ‘inclusion’ or erasure from the social sciences? Date: Tuesday, 20th September 2016, Ballroom, Keele University Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Alexander (University of Manchester) and Professor Kalwant Bhopal (University of Southampton) Event… Read More ›
The Hard Stop – Documentary
In August 2011, 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot and killed whilst being arrested by armed police in Tottenham, London. This incident ignited a riot that escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest in recent British history. This… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Migration and Crisis in Europe
Dear Colleagues, Sociology is pleased to announce the theme of its 2018 special issue: Migration and Crisis in Europe. The issue will be guest edited by Nick Dines, Nicola Montagna and Elena Vacchelli, all at Middlesex University, UK. The editors… Read More ›
Higher Education & Race Inequalities
Tenure Denied At Dartmouth, an Asian-American professor receives unanimous English department backing and is rejected at higher levels. The same happened to a black historian at the college. Many see a disturbing pattern. More on this story on Inside Higher… Read More ›
21st Century Salute to my Heroine Quartet
by Natty Mark Samuels On this Saturday evening, I sit relaxing in joyful thought, wishing that the next time I go to Ghana, I get to hear Dr. Rabiatu Deinyo Ammah speak. I wish I could have been there, at… Read More ›
Book Review: Diversity, Equality and Achievement in Education (Knowles & Lander, 2011)
reviewed by Sadia Habib Diversity, Equality and Achievement in Education by Gianna Knowles and Vini Lander (Sage, 2011) Intentional and unintentional racism is very much still a part of today’s society experienced by people of colour in everyday situations… Read More ›
Paxman Britannica’: Empire, Sociology, and Postcolonial Reconstruction
Gurminder K. Bhambra gave the 2015 Marshall Lecture at the University of Southampton:
Excerpt from Richard Wright’s Black Boy
Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” (2000) cited in “What Group?” Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of “Color-Blindness” by AMANDA E. LEWIS (2004)
Call for papers: Legacies of the Tricontinental, : Imperialism, Resistance, Law
CALL FOR PAPERS Legacies of the Tricontinental, : Imperialism, Resistance, Law 22-24 September 2016 Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2016 The conference organisers invite paper proposals for a transdisciplinary conference marking the… Read More ›
The Pessimistic Turn in Modern French Thought
A really interesting lecture about the pessimistic turn in modern French thought: the roots of a transition to be found in an intellectual culture “haunted by the universal”.
Sociology in and through the Global South
Sociology in and through the Global South Sociological Review Symposium Senate House, London, United Kingdom Mon, 7 Mar 2016 at 13: Speakers: Prof Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Warwick and Linnaeus University, Sweden), Prof Alf Nilsen (University of Bergen), Dr Lisa… Read More ›
The Diary of Natty Samuels – 21 December 2015
by Natty Mark Samuels As yesterday, I focused on reflection – and the writing of the first installment of the diary – so today, I review the words of the previous day, including fire – nar; field – haql; forest… Read More ›
Natty Samuels – Beginning an Arabic Language Learning Journey
by Natty Mark Samuels In November 2015 – I decided to learn Arabic. As we go along, I shall speak of the reasons why. For now, I would like to say that this idea, which has turned into a great… Read More ›
‘Othering’ in Education
by Tait Coles This week David Cameron (your prime minister) suggested that English language classes for Muslim women could help stop radicalisation. Yes, you read that correctly. He went on to explain that Muslims arriving in the UK on a… Read More ›
Terraced House, not Terrorist House
by Amar Alam The case of a 10 year old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote “terrorist house” instead of “terraced house” when his teacher asked him to write down the type of house he lived in was documented recently… Read More ›
David Cameron & Muslim Women: Old Orientalism, New Racism
By announcing that £20m will be spent to “teach thousands of Muslim women to speak English”, David Cameron’s portrayal of them as linguistically deficient, culturally suppressed and visibly alien is reminiscent of a long line of colonial repression. The prime… Read More ›
CfP: Political Theory on Refugees
Call for Papers University of Augsburg, 17-18 November 2016 CONFERENCE: POLITICAL THEORY ON REFUGEES Working Groups: Democracy and Flight: Political Theories on Refugees and the transcultural and comparative political theory group Convenors: Sybille De La Rosa (Heidelberg University), Melanie Frank… Read More ›
Global Futures and Epistemologies of the South: last chance to submit
Sociology Special Issue: Last Chance to Submit! Dear Colleagues, The deadline for Sociology’s special issue on Global Futures and Epistemologies of the South is fast approaching. Any authors who wish to send through an article for consideration need to submit… Read More ›