The task of Sociology in an age of austerity is to occupy public debate and make inequality matter #BritSoc13 — Socio Imagination (@Soc_Imagination) April 3, 2013 This is a tweeted paraphrase of how BSA president John Holmwood described the task… Read More ›
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John Holmwood on Markets, Expertise and the Public University, 28 June at the OU
Markets, Expertise and the Public University: A crisis in knowledge for democracy? Wednesday 28 June 2012, 14.00-17.00 Open University, Milton Keynes, Library Seminar Rooms, 1&2 The Creating Publics project was launched in March 2012 with the aim of innovating new ways of engaging… Read More ›
John Holmwood on “Sociology’s ‘moments’: C. Wright Mills and the critique of professionalism
This podcast is a recording of John Holmwood’s talk at the C. Wright Mills session from the BSA conference in April 2012. The snippet below is from the subsequent q&a session. (main podcast) (snippet)
Public Sociology In an Age of Austerity – Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood in Dialogue
Michael Burawoy is president of the International Sociological Association and John Holmwood was recently elected president of the British Sociological Association from June 2012 onwards. In this dialogue recorded at the BSA conference in April 2012, they explore the challenges faced by public sociology in… Read More ›
Classical Pragmatism
In this video John Holmwood gives a great overview of how classical pragmatist philosophy has been taken up and put to use within Sociology, as well as the practical issues it engages with in the process of being used to… Read More ›
A New Model for Peer-Reviewing Monographs?
Earlier this month in London at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, during a panel for early career researchers, I asked John Holmwood why the RAE/REF does not seem to rate scholarly monographs as highly as journal articles. Both a… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent – Public Universities and Public Futures
A round table session from Discourses of Dissent investigating how academic research, with a particular focus on social theory, might help us articulate and work towards a positive vision of shared futures which escape the discursive constraints which have defined… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent: this Wednesday (16th) in Birmingham
Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In light of the coalition government’s austerity agenda and the emerging movement against it, the event asks how academic… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent: Social Theory and Political Resistance
Public Symposium, Warwick Social Theory Centre 16th February 2011, 2-6pm, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged / £5 student, unwaged Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In… Read More ›
Discourses of Dissent: Social Theory and Political Resistance
Public Symposium, Warwick Social Theory Centre 16th February 2011, 2-6pm, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged / £5 student, unwaged Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In… Read More ›