Awards Congratulations to Yesim Yildiz, who has been awarded a 3-year funded ESRC New Investigator’s Grant, entitled: Official Archives of State Violence, starting 1 March. Congratulations, also to Miranda Armstrong who received an award of £8385 from the grassroots organisation Resourcing Racial Justice to further develop her PhD research and undertake some advocacy around the … Continue reading Research News – February 2021
By Dr Faten Khazaei “Situated Norms” is a postdoctoral research project at Goldsmiths which looks at State’s child protection mission through the lens of social difference. The need to protect children from neglect and abuse is one of the most accepted missions of the welfare state. Despite the extensive consensus on the need for public … Continue reading Situated Norms: Home Visits and the (Re)production of Social Difference through Child Protection
Les Back remembers that in the early hours of Sunday 18 January, 1981, a devastating fire engulfed party-goers at a birthday celebration being held at 439 New Cross Road for Yvonne Ruddock and Angela Jackson. Continue reading New Crass Massahkah: Remembering the fire at 439 New Cross Road
Bev Skeggs writes in The Sociological Review; “I didn’t think that my experience of NHS privatisation could get any worse than last year …” Continue reading A Crisis in Humanity: What Everyone with Parents Is Likely to Face in the Future
In this piece in Red Pepper, Yasmin Gunaratnam reflects on John Berger’s gut solidarity with the stranger. Continue reading Borderless ambitions: a reflection on John Berger
Based on empirical research with participants from working-class backgrounds studying and working in higher education in England, this article by Vik Loveday examines the lived experience of shame. Building on a feminist Bourdieusian approach to social class analysis, the article contends that ‘struggles for value’ within the field of higher education precipitate classed judgements, which … Continue reading Embodying Deficiency Through ‘Affective Practice’: Shame, Relationality, and the Lived Experience of Social Class and Gender in Higher Education
CISP Salon: STS Then & Now – InfrastructureJanuary 18 (Wednesday) 2017 4:00pm-6:00pm, Warmington Tower 1204 Over the past 40 years, Science and Technology Studies (STS) has grown with contributions from many disciplines, sometimes leading to complicated genealogies concerning its many theoretical commitments. During the Autumn and Spring terms, we will meet to discuss two… via CISP … Continue reading CISP Salon: STS Then & Now: Infrastructure
Writing in The Conversation, Vikki Bell and Yasmin Gunaratnam discuss how Berger, who died on January 2 at the age of 90, had a profound influence on the popular understanding of art and the visual image. Also that he was also a vibrant example of the public intellectual, using his position to speak out against social injustices and … Continue reading How John Berger changed our way of seeing art
1000 – 1800 16 December, 2016 PSH 302, Goldsmiths University of London The aim of this workshop is to bring together and evaluate critically the use of smartphones in ethnographic research. We ask, what are the particular affordances of smartphones and in what ways might they extend particular sorts of ethnographic practice? To what extent … Continue reading Smart Ethnography
Dr Abby Day, Reader of Race, Faith & Culture in the Department of Sociology, writes in The Conversation that ‘Poor, uneducated, housebound women appear to be almost wholly responsible for the lack of integration of some Muslim communities in Britain. At least, that seems to be the finding of a new report on social cohesion, carried out by Dame Louise … Continue reading Another century, another witch-hunt: this time it’s poor Muslim women
