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• Giving voice through animation: “my first crush”

  By Sociological Imagination on February 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  This charming animation is based on interviews the artist conducted with people about their first encounters with love. As she puts it, “their animal counterparts tells their stories of humor and heartache” and, through doing so, give voice to these… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment

  By Sociological Imagination on February 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Authority & Political Technologies 2014                                                   Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment                            ‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism… Read More ›

• Introductions, Writing Patterns, and Tidy Desks: Personal Reflections on the Writing Process

  By Sociological Imagination on February 20, 2014 • ( 2 )

  A while ago, Mark Carrigan asked me to contribute a blog to a series he was curating on the writing process. I said that I was too busy writing to do so. Now that I’ve just submitted the manuscript I… Read More ›

• Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

  By Mark Carrigan on February 20, 2014 • ( 2 )

  How do you find time to write? I’ve become fascinated by this question in recent months. Implicit within it is an understanding of ‘writing’ which I’m coming to see as deeply problematic. It treats the creative activity of writing as… Read More ›

• New student sociology journal at Warwick!

  By Sociological Imagination on February 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The Warwick Sociology Journal is a new journal founded and edited by students which will publish excellent undergraduate and postgraduate work. Each issue will have a central contemporary theme, and the journal accepts submissions from people of any discipline at… Read More ›

• Are you a doctoral ‘student’?

  By Sociological Imagination on February 18, 2014 • ( 3 )

  That’s the great question Pat Thomson asked in a recent blog post. Are you a doctoral student? Or a doctoral researcher? I’ve tended towards the latter, partly because being called a student began to bug me as soon as I’d published my… Read More ›

• What is happening in Bosnia?

  By Milena Kremakova on February 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Since 5 February 2014, all major cities in Bosnia have had daily mass protests by factory workers.  What is happening and why? Read a good article by Michael Karadjis. .

• SRO Rapid Response Call: Representations of the Poor and the Politics of Welfare Reform: ‘Benefits Street’ and Beyond

  By Sociological Imagination on February 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Recent public debate in the UK surrounding Channel 4’s ‘Benefits Street’ documentary has highlighted an apparent proliferation of media representations of unemployed and/or working class lives that emphasise themes such as dependency, laziness, anti-social behaviour and criminality. At the same… Read More ›

• Judith Butler: “A Politics of the Street”

  By Sociological Imagination on February 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

• CfP: What are conferences for? The Political economy of academic events

  By Sociological Imagination on February 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  The Sociological Imagination invites short articles (500-1500 words) critically reflecting upon the prevailing forms of intellectual meeting within the contemporary academy. What are their strengths? What are their weaknesses? How could they be done differently? What are the sociological implications of these… Read More ›

• “Just waiting for you to talk so that I can” – John Grant

  By Sociological Imagination on February 14, 2014 • ( 1 )

  Discussion, so it is said, is of key importance to the academic life. The debate, the flow of ideas, comparison and critique, amongst your peers, is the primary signifier of academia’s importance. Why then do so many academics sit through… Read More ›

• Nikolas Rose on the Public Brain

  By Sociological Imagination on February 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  The Human Brain Project is a rather enormous EU funded project, funded to the tune of €1.3 billion over 10 years, looking at future neuroscience, future medicine and future computing. It aims to overcome fragmentation within neuroscience, synthesise existing data sets and produce a platform to… Read More ›

• Why I am quitting the British Sociological Association

  By Mark Carrigan on February 13, 2014 • ( 3 )

  Now that my PhD is almost complete, I’ve received a polite request from UCU that I rejoin as a staff member. I was pleased to find that subscription rates are on a sliding scale, with the highest band paying twice… Read More ›

• The responsibility of being nice: An idea, a method and a personal utopia on suicide. A conversation with Dr. Ben Fincham

  By Sociological Imagination on February 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  I. News that stale  Having interrupted the flow of the Sociologists of Crisis series for a timely intervention on the issue of the Golden Dawn trials in my native Greece, it seems timely to return to a matter that was… Read More ›

• CFP “International Conference on Men and Masculinities”, 11-13 September 2014, IZMIR TURKEY

  By Sociological Imagination on February 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Please distribute widely 1st International Conference on Men and Masculinities: “Identities, Cultures, Societies” will be held on 11-13 September 2014 in Izmir Turkey. Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities (ICSM) invites proposals for the first international conference on men and masculinities to… Read More ›

• The Sociology of Friendship

  By Mark Carrigan on February 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  There’s a great article by Lisa Wade in Salon talking about the ‘hidden crisis’ of white heterosexual American men. They have the fewest friends of any group within American society and, it seems, they wish they had more. What really caught my… Read More ›

• The pedagogical value of Twitter: enhancing the collective identity of independent learners

  By Sociological Imagination on February 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Last year I taught on a newly designed module in my School and was struck by the value of Twitter as a learning resource and teaching tool. ‘Current Issues in Society’ is a first year undergraduate module that has deviated… Read More ›

• Policing the ‘Benefits Crisis’: what would Stuart Hall do?

  By Sociological Imagination on February 10, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Today the sad news was announced that Stuart Hall has died.  My Twitter timeline and email account has been awash with mourning colleagues; scholars, researchers and students remembering and reflecting upon the legacy of his enormous archive of work.  Many… Read More ›

• Julian Assange in conversation with Slavoj Žižek

  By Sociological Imagination on February 10, 2014 • ( 1 )

  Last year, whistleblower website WikiLeaks released three of the biggest ever leaks of classified information in history: the Iraq War Logs, the Afghanistan War Logs and Cablegate. Since then the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed… Read More ›

• CfP: Where now for social justice?

  By Sociological Imagination on February 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS ‘WHERE NOW FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE? THE MARGINALISATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK’ Thursday 12th – Friday 13th June 2014 We are inviting abstracts for a Two day Conference at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK… Read More ›

• Sexuality Summer School 26 – 30 May: Queer Anatomies

  By Sociological Imagination on February 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Sexuality Summer School 26 – 30 May: Queer Anatomies Registration for the Sexuality Summer School is open to all PhD and Masters students and will go live on 14 February 2014 at estore.manchester.ac.uk. The number of students is limited to 35 so book early to… Read More ›

• Sad YouTube: fascinating fragile fragments of humanity

  By Sociological Imagination on February 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  YouTube comments are notorious.  But Mark Slutsky, writer and filmmaker [and, clearly, also amateur sociologist] has dedicated his blog SadYoutube to salvaging fragile fragments of humanity from YouTube comments. He calls them “Moments of melancholy, sadness and saudade from the lives of… Read More ›

• Wolfgang Hofkirchner – ICTs and Society Research – What for?

  By Sociological Imagination on February 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

• Margaret Archer – We are what we love: love and identity

  By Sociological Imagination on February 7, 2014 • ( 2 )

• Sociology and poetry

  By Sociological Imagination on February 6, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Sitting near a lake See more than our reflections So this is sociology K.J., sociology student There is an uneasy relationship between traditional sociology and the arts, in particular openly irrational registers of writing, such as poetry. I’m not sure… Read More ›

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