by Ralf Wetzel, Vlerick Business School Managers going off hands “Panama papers”. As whether it all would happen in a bad American movie. A law company with a name a bit too clandestine, international politicians feeling a bit too safe, a business… Read More ›
Archive for June 2016
Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed
In Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation, he writes of how interns voluntarily subjugate themselves in order to ‘be noticed’, even if they have little expectation that their internship will lead to a permanent job. From loc 1997: There is rarely much… Read More ›
Marketing Intervention
by Tanzil Chowdhury Even at its height, European colonialism had to be rationalised and reified in all manner of different ways to ‘make sense’. Indeed, its contemporary reproductions, which here will collectively and generously be called ‘interventions’, are similarly ‘marketed’ in… Read More ›
The Tourist: Uncalled for observations and gross generalizations – PART 1
by Jonathan J.B. Mijs Jonathan J.B. Mijs is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. When he is not writing about himself in third person, he is studying how (young) people come to see and explain setbacks in… Read More ›
Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One-day conference 4th July last chance for tickets
The Digital Health/Digital Capitalism event is at Leeds Beckett University on 4th July (blurb below) and tickets are still available here for £20. There are plenaries by Nick Fox (‘The micropolitical economy of posthuman health’) and Graham Scambler (‘Digital sociology or sociology of the… Read More ›
Trans/Gender-Nonconforming College Students Project
Trans/Gender-Nonconforming College Students Project Abbie Goldberg, a Professor of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester MA, is conducting a survey oftrans/gender-nonconforming college students (including recent graduates) regarding their perspectives and experiences on a range of topics, including trans advocacy and… Read More ›
Can Sociology Make a Difference? Social research and social justice
How can social research make a difference? This event will showcase examples of exciting research being conducted by Warwick Sociology in partnership with people and organisations who are directly engaged in social justice work. We want to share our research… 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 ›
Video interviews with leading critical realists
A series of video interviews with leading CR theorists, produced by the Critical Realism Network:
A Bid from “the Continent”, a Plea to remain
By Lambros Fatsis In the heat of Brexit, it may seem inopportune, if not entirely irrelevant, to recite poetry, when so much “real stuff” hovers over our heads. Yet, there is something about the lyrical outbursts of poets that can… Read More ›
Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth
This isn’t a new idea but I’ve rarely encountered it expressed so concisely: The idea that individuals create wealth and that all governments do is come along and tax them is what Varoufakis calls “a preposterous reversal of the truth”…. Read More ›
Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action
BSA Sociologists outside Academia, in collaboration with Sage Publishing Ltd and the Sociological Imagination Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action A half-day workshop British Psychological Society meeting rooms, Tabernacle St London EC2A 4UE Monday 17 October 2016, 12.30 – 4.30pm How… Read More ›
Value and Values
“Value and Values” Saturday December 3rd , followed by a wine reception at 18.30 Goldsmiths, University of London This event is the final symposium for the ESRC Professorial Fellowship project “Value and Values” (ES/K010786/1) conducted between by Bev… Read More ›
Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy
From the 1980s onward, there has been an unprecedented growth of institutions and procedures for auditing and evaluating university research. Quantitative indicators are now widely used from the level of individual researchers to that of entire universities, serving to make… Read More ›
Let’s cut the bullshit!
I study the work of mathematicians. I don’t call them informants but participants, because “informants” is a horrible word. Some of my participants enjoy being part of the research and take pains to explain and verbalise stuff to make it… Read More ›
Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation
David Beer reads an introduction to his book Popular Culture and New Media:
Coercion and Co-option in the Militarised Neoliberal State
By Hamish Robertson Introduction In this final part of this three part series, I would like to briefly explore some aspects of how our ruling elites and governments help reproduce these intersectionalities to their own advantage. More particularly, I look… Read More ›
Na Labutenah: Russian Society in 6 minutes
by Lisa Gaufman The video clip “Eksponat” (showpiece) released by the Russian rock group ‘Leningrad’ became a viral sensation within days. A catchy tune with Leningrad’s trademark obscene language tells the story of a woman who is going to various… Read More ›
CfP: Feminist Media Histories, special issue on “Data”
CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on “Data” Guest Editors: Miriam Posner (UCLA) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech) “Data” has enormous cultural currency in the world today. Most of us understand that corporations are encoding… Read More ›
On Digital Data
One of my favourite XKCD cartoons ever:
What’s so bad about book chapters? Nothing, really.
This is a semi-personal, semi-professional post from one of our editors: I keep hearing warnings about how book-chapters are bad for your research career. Well, our current publishing and peer-review system makes so little logical sense that I’m not inclined… Read More ›
The role of militarized science and technology
By Hamish Robertson Introduction In the first part of this exploratory essay, I explored some of the links between state power over the past two centuries or so and the rise of militarism as an accepted social norm. In this… Read More ›
The School of Life Does Sociology
An interesting series of Sociology videos from The School of Life:
On the Militarisation of Everyday Life
By Hamish Robertson Introduction We live in world that increasingly applies military solutions to problems ranging from local ‘threats’ to the geopolitical disruptions as the norm. Across the political spectrum there is an increasing acceptance of the belief that military… Read More ›
Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action A half-day workshop
BSA Sociologists outside Academia, in collaboration with Sage Publishing Ltd and the Sociological Imagination Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action A half-day workshop British Psychological Society meeting rooms, Tabernacle St London EC2A 4UE … Read More ›
Reporting the General Strike: Contemporary accounts of “The Nine Day Wonder”
A fascinating resource from the University of Warwick’s Modern Records Centre: Contemporary accounts Read more than 450 documents relating to the 1926 General Strike, including strike bulletins, transcripts of radio broadcasts and internal reports produced by the strike co-ordinator, the… Read More ›
Becoming a Channel Swimmer
A great video from Karen Throsby, who we interviewed almost 6 years ago, as the first of our many podcasts.
Conceptualising ‘distraction’
What does it mean to be distracted? For the last year, I’ve been telling people that I’m working on a new project about digital distraction and everyone seems to immediately grasp what I mean by this. But conceptualising precisely what… Read More ›