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Sadia Habib taught English at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. She is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also the Book Review Editor for The Sociological Imagination.
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Book launch with Dr Sadia Habib and Dr Julia Hope
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 ›
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Call for Chapters: Bourdieu, curriculum studies, education policy and reform
Co-editors James Albright (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Shaun Rawolle (Deakin University) Revisiting the Principes pour une réflexion sur les contenus d’enseignment (Bourdieu, 1989) Call for chapters This proposed book aims to bring together scholars that take as… Read More ›
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The Neoliberal Masculine Logic: Skilled Migration, International Students, and the Indian ‘Other’ in Australia
By Michiel Baas This chapter analyses how a neoliberal masculine logic permeates discussion of Australia’s “education industry” and associated skilled migration program. Indian students play a key role in this. It is generally agreed that the initial phenomenal growth in… Read More ›
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Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Masculinities among Black African boys in London
By Derron O. Wallace In post-Brexit Britain, who considers the impact of the aspiration agenda on ethnic minority young people –particularly Black boys? What is the role of Black boys in building the ‘aspiration nation’? Better still, what is the… Read More ›
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Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and Schooling in a Neoliberal Age
By Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl In this chapter we argue for approaches to researching and imagining aspiration that reflect the complexities of masculinities. We suggest that future academic work on boys’ aspirations adopts an intersectional approach to considering the… Read More ›
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“Gotta get that laziness out of me”: Negotiating masculine aspirational subjectivities in the transition from school to university in Australia
by Sue Nichols and Garth Stahl Aspiration is centrally concerned with becoming, and inherently frames the present in terms of the future desired self. The moment at which a young person graduates from school is a nexus point for aspirational… Read More ›
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Conference: Social Mobility, Aspirations, Education and White Working-Class Youth: Urban, Rural and Coastal Contexts
A BSA Sociology of Education Study Group One-Day Conference in association with the Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University. 5 July 2017 At Canterbury Christ Church University, UK PROGRAMME This one-day conference, supported by the BSA’s Education Study Group, focuses… Read More ›
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(Re)masculinizing “Suzhi Jiaoyu” (Education for Quality): Aspirational Values of Modernity in Neoliberal China
By Xiaodong Lin and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill In December 2016, China published a gender specific textbook for boys, aiming to help male pupils understand their gender roles in society. It emphasizes the issue of masculinity and addresses the question… Read More ›
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White Working-Class Boys in the Neoliberal Meritocracy: The Pitfalls of the “Aspiration-Raising” Agenda
by Sam Baars The great meritocracy When she became British prime Minister in July 2016, the core narrative of Teresa May’s premiership was quick to emerge: “I want Britain to be the world’s great meritocracy – a country where everyone has… Read More ›
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Coming of Age through the Recession: High School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York Cities
by Patrick Alexander What do you want to be when you finally grow up? In 2014, on a humid September morning, I boarded a crowded subway train to arrive at the New York City public high school where I would… Read More ›
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Conservatism eats itself: An irreverent look at the conservative mind by Deborah Talbot
by Deborah Talbot Conservative politics are everywhere, but what is it, and what are they really like? In the cities, you don’t notice conservatism. It’s there, for sure, but is pretty quiet about itself. Political parties of a more left… Read More ›
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Metaphysical matters in post-truth cultures
by Joshua Stein In the early months of the Trump administration, and even the late months of the Presidential campaign, social theorists and commentators started to write Jeremiads on the death of truth and its relata, knowledge and disagreement and… Read More ›
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Creative Dark Matter Rising? Struggling Over the Future of Alternative Cultural Spaces in the City of Geneva
by Robert Hollands When I recently mentioned to some friends that I was going to Geneva, Switzerland to conduct some sociological research into alternative cultural spaces, most shook their heads in disbelief. ‘All I think of when I hear the… Read More ›
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Al Jazeera’s ‘The Crusades: An Arab Perspective’
by Dr Z.A. In the West, one of the most decisive battles ever fought is the Battle of Tours, in 732 France. This moment is considered the turning point where Arab expansion into western Europe was forever halted. It is… Read More ›
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Lost governments of fragile reason
by Deborah Talbot In the eve of the US election result in which Senator John Kerry lost to George Bush in 2004, Jonathan Raban wrote the following in his essay America’s Reality Check: “More than any other election in recent… Read More ›
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The Gender Pay Gap
by Deborah Talbot In the last half-century, advanced industrial nations have seen immense changes in the position of women in society. They have caught up or overtaken boys in educational achievement. They have joined the labour force and all other… Read More ›
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Integration, British Values and the Genealogy of Norms
by Tanzil Chowdhury Dame Louise Casey’s recent independent review ‘into integration and opportunity in our most isolated and deprived communities’ has been widely criticised, primarily for focussing its lens on Muslim ‘immiscibility’ rather than structural racism and regurgitating old orientalist-stereotypes… Read More ›
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The Return of School Discipline – why children should be free.
by Deborah Talbot No, not canes and shouting, but something altogether more subtle and certainly troubling. It has been reported that St George the Martyr Primary School in London has a policy whereby children, when they walk in corridors, have… Read More ›
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Squeezing Us ‘Till It Hurts: Motherhood, Discrimination, and Universities
by Deborah Talbot The Final Report of the Equalities Review, published by Equalities Commission in 2007, reviewed a range of persistent inequalities including those that affect women. It argued that, ‘…new research reveals clearly that there is one factor that… Read More ›
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Sociopathy and social conflict, or the empathy trap
by Deborah Talbot The savagery of the political discourse emerging since the EU Referendum vote, in the election of Donald Trump and the explosion of nouveau fascism across Europe has led to a preoccupation that there might be something… Read More ›
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Call for Abstracts: Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging
BSA Sociological Futures Proposal Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging Edited by: Garth Stahl, PhD Sadia Habib, PhD Mike Ward, PhD This proposed edited collection draws on interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young… Read More ›
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CfP – Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures
Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures For the Fall 2017 issue of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume 10), the editors invite original contributions to the wide and dynamic fields of contemporary boys’… Read More ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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A Feminist Guide to Opera or Why I Read the Subtitles
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 ›
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Brassed Off (Oldham Coliseum until 1 October)
BRASSED OFF 7 SEP – 1 0CT 2016 “I don’t know anyone who admits to voting Tory but t’buggers keep getting in”. Brassed Off film fans will very much enjoy the Oldham Coliseum Theatre production of the hugely successful… Read More ›
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Request for Zines
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 ›
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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 ›