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Equality and Rights in 21st Century Britain: From Trojan Horse to Grenfell
Online event by the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project. Speakers include Latifa Akay, Dr Nadine El-Enany, Prof John Holmwood and Lowkey.
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November 2020 Newsletter
Highlights from this month including, Connected Sociologies, our digital series on Methodologies, Sociological Literature and an invitation to contribute to ‘Solidarity & Care’.
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Sociograms in Critical Methodologies
Rachel Benchekroun The egocentric sociogram – a visual representation of an individual’s relationships with others – is a powerful means of exploring social relations and participants’ perceptions and experiences of them. In my research on and with mothers with insecure immigration status and ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF), participant-created sociograms – in the context […]
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Taken-For-Granted: Maps, Stories, Disruption
Jen Saunders I live in a coastal NSW tourist town, where the historical narrative—presented in museums, tourist information, public art and civic infrastructure—is one of white settlers, agricultural success and genteel progress. This is not unusual and most Australian towns have versions of this peaceful settlement theme, in which pioneers are celebrated but the frontier […]
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Book Review: Mundane Methods edited by Holmes & Hall
Mundane Methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday (2020) edited by Helen Holmes and Sarah Marie Hall, published by Manchester University Press. Helen Holmes is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives and also the Sustainable Consumption Institute. Her research explores […]
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#FEAS Performing Project P: The official unboxing of political, personal, and practical zines
Mindy Blaise, Emily Gray and Jo Pollitt WHO ARE #FEAS? #FEAS -Feminist Educators Against Sexism are an international feminist collective that was founded in 2016 and is committed to developing arts-based interventions into sexisms in the academy and other educational spaces. We use a mix of humour, irreverence, guerrilla methodology and collective action to interrupt […]
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Image-Makers in Residence: Sizing Up Gender (Ben Barry, Calla Evans and May Friedman)
This month our Digital Theme is ‘Methodologies.’ Our Image-Makers in Residence are the research team and participants behind the ‘Sizing Up Gender’ project, based at the School of Fashion at Ryerson University, which uses arts-based methods. Follow us on Instagram at ‘thesociologicalreview’ for all the images. How do the round curves of fat flesh enhance […]
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Introducing November’s theme: Methodologies
Laura Harris on our annual digital theme of Methodologies.
Image by Sizing Up Gender (Ben Barry, Calla Evans, May Friedman)
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Something Fishy: Connections, Disconnections, and Food
Rahul Ganguly How we experience food is a manifestation of the social milieu we inhabit; it is something that both sets us apart and brings us together. One of the first ideas that I learnt as a sociology undergraduate was C.W. Mills (1959) seminal concept of the “sociological imagination” which teaches us to not understand […]
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Recipe and Research: Tracey Skillington
Research Interests: Broadly, my area of research focus is the human rights implications of global climate change for present and future generations. When viewed as an act of wrongdoing (a knowing imposition of harm), climate change raises many issues of central relevance to sociology, including that of inequality, power, exclusion, community, relations between generations, protest, […]
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A Question of Taste?: Food, Xenophobia, and the Coronavirus
Katie Jones The outbreak of the novel coronavirus led to a flurry of “origin stories” – stories that not only mislead by implying definitive knowledge of a subject, but also attempt to find the locus of blame or responsibility. The origin story of interest here is the “coronavirus bat” and the misinformation propagated by anti-migration […]
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The Importance of Being Taste Dealers in the Contemporary Food Economy
Alessandro Gerosa It was during an interview – conducted for my doctoral research about gourmet food trucks and hipster bars in Milan – that one operator told me that he defined himself as a ‘taste dealer’, referring to both the ‘trader’ and ‘pusher’ meaning of dealer. In a sort of academic epiphany, I realised I […]
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Food Insecurity: Upsetting ‘Apple Carts’ in Abstract and Tangible Markets
Susan Marie Martin The words ‘food security’ are easily consigned to concerns with contamination, blight, or the inability to move goods across borders due to political tensions or war. These scenarios are relegated in the minds of many to the developing world; the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, for example, articulates food security as ‘zero hunger’, […]
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Book Review: Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice by Baldwin
Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice: Negotiating Responsibility, Hope and Modern Motherhood (2019) by Kylie Baldwin, published by Emerald Insight. Kylie Baldwin is Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at De Montfort University where she is part of the Centre for Reproduction Research. Her research explores the emergence and use of novel technologies concerned with fertility […]
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Disenfranchised: Families Facing Food Insecurity in the United States
Sinikka Elliott, Sarah Bowen, and Annie Hardison-Moody “They want to check the workers. It’s one obstacle after the other. They want to virtually lock us up,” says Angie, an immigrant mother who works as a cook in a deli. After the 2016 election, Angie was no longer allowed to speak Spanish at work, ostensibly because […]
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