A study waiting to be done. Somebody? Here is the trigger: So: how is academia.edu reproducing and reinforcing inequality? By spatially positioning the male academic above; By choosing an older male academic and a younger female; By listing the male as… Read More ›
You are cordially invited to the workshop A New World… Out of Nothing (16th November 2016, University of Warwick, 1pm – 6pm) A group of experts will guide our journey: Prof Jeremy Gray (University of Warwick and Open University), Historian… Read More ›
This is not news, but I found it recently, while playing around with some watercolours in my office, and thought it was exciting that someone had thought of it before me. Graphic ethnography! http://www.utpteachingculture.com/announcing-ethnographic-a-new-series/
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 ›
by Lisa Gaufman How is that for a Hollywood movie scenario: a young woman starts dating a poor student, but then dumps him for a rich old man, whom she tries to relieve of his treasures before getting… Read More ›
WHAT IS A ZINE? “Zine” is short for fanzine. “For all intensive purposes, a zine is a cheaply-made, cheaply-priced publication, often in black and white, which is mass-produced via photocopier and bound with staples. Most zines revolve around a… Read More ›
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 ›
The films deal with short passages of original philosophical text and interpret them visually. The text concern themes like how we perceive the look of the other (Sartre), what becoming might be (Deleuze/Guttari), and how the spirit refers to itself… Read More ›
A fantastic, chilling ethnography of death in the modern metropolis – and of a life forgotten and pieced together from postmortem scraps. This text gives insights not only into the journey of a death person through a number of complex… Read More ›
Details below for an event on data visualisation which sounds great and is taking place as part of Sheffield universities’ ESRC Festival of Social Science. Presentations and discussion with experts and practitioners considering what data visualisations – that is, the… Read More ›
A lovely feature on the #HullEdD blog: read it in full here.
As much as I dislike the ideas of Ayn Rand, I think this animation is marvellous. I’d love to see something along these lines exploring the ideas of C. Wright Mills:
The Offending Article on www.bustle.com: Kendall Jenner is known for showing off her toned model bod and long legs, but she kept the paparazzi on their toes with her latest bold style trend. According to Refinery29, Kendall Jenner wore a… Read More ›
Think a city cannot surprise you? I thought so, until I found Michael Wolf’s work. Here are some of his pretty ugly – or pretty in their ugliness, depending on your viewpoint – photos of HK urban highrise blocks of flats…. Read More ›
by Bill Carroll In January 2015, scientists recorded atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide above 400 parts per million on a regular basis – the first time such a level had been reached so early in the calendar year. It… Read More ›
Last week The Telegraph newspaper reported that a college in Brighton were planning a field trip to observe “working class culture” in action at a football match: “To anyone else, a trip to a football match would merely be a… Read More ›
A beautifully presented book with bold and binary pictograms illustrating gender issues of contemporary times is the perfect stimulus to use for discussion with undergraduates interested in issues of sociology, sociolinguistics, and particularly gender roles and relationships. Some of the… Read More ›
UK Hip Hop artist Swiss interrogating the widespread use of “Nigger”. Powerful messages: I don’t change colour, but they call me a coloured man! The language of Black: blackmail, black-hearted, black sheep, blacklist, black magic! Skin-bleach because wanting to be… Read More ›
School students at Book T Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia (USA) walked out of school in protest after nothing was done when they reported a racist retweet by a staff member at the school. Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/black-students-walk-out-over-school-officials-tweet-every-white-girls-fathers-worse-nightmare/… Read More ›
The fascinating story of a disappearing community: the Anglo Indians – read here, with photographs by Karan Kapoor. http://www.tasveerjournal.com/ai/
Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and about 70% of coco beans come from Ghana and the Ivory Coast in Africa. Coco bean plantations where it is grown and harvested have historically relied on child, slave labor to harvest those coco… Read More ›
#GraysonPerry Ashford Hijab by Grayson Perry Via @AnthonyDBowen pic.twitter.com/WZb1gkbQjQ — Education Researcher (@educ_research) October 27, 2014 In October 2006, I interviewed a White British female Year 11 student who had researched Islam for eight months and then decided to convert… Read More ›
Global cities like London have an incessant rhythm of consumption that needs to be maintained around-the-clock. This short film shines a light on the invisible lives of people working at night whilst the majority sleep or enjoy the nocturnal life…. Read More ›
By Christopher Vito One of my fondest memories as a child was when my father would take me to the comic book store on his days off from work. I remember picking out X-Men and Spider-Man comic books, and being… Read More ›
On Wednesday I went to visit the People’s History Museum in Manchester and attended the Museums and Academics Research Network’s first meeting in their light and bright reading room. The purpose was to learn about how the Museum’s collections can… Read More ›
The Scandinavian noir film adaptation of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s gripping book The Keeper of Lost Causes hit our British art-house cinema screens this week. The original book, which was first published in Danish as Kvinden i buret in 2008,… Read More ›
Its philosophical accuracy is questionable but it is very catchy:
In the past few days, this bench has made an outrage among my Internet community. I had to look it up and discovered that it is a public installation by the German designer and conceptual artist Fabian Brunsing intended to… Read More ›
We are posting this again because the video was not visible in the original post. Thanks to Sadia Habib and Yolanda van Wyk for alerting us – and sorry that fixing it took so long! Tanja Ostojić, a Serbian feminist… Read More ›
William Carroll is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Victoria (Victoria, Canada). In this video from the 2012 Global Studies conference, he talks about his research on global politics, and looking at grassroots organizations as alternatives in… Read More ›