by Nirmal Puwar The paper Women as Space Invaders: The Force of the Somatic Norm – a summary of the book Space Invaders – was accepted as a publication in a parliamentary special issue on the Women’s Suffrage Centenary. At the last minute, it was withdrawn by the publishers. Hence, it is shared here. Download … Continue reading Women as Space Invaders: The Force of the Somatic Norm
Publications Ming-Te Peng (PhD Candidate) has published her first article in Asia Pacific Education Review, under the title “Relocating the education reform movement: how have universities in Taiwan experienced Neoliberalization?” Silvia Bombardini, George Kalivis, and Floriane Misslin (PhD researchers in Visual Sociology) published a short online article titled “Going off script: The subversive potential of misworn clothing” in The … Continue reading Research News – Summer 2022
Awards Jennifer Fleetwood (with Charlotte Scott in Department of English) have been awarded £29,324 from the AHRC to form a research network with Clean Break Theatre Company. The project is called “A story of her own: Finding a space for women to speak beyond the criminal justice system”. The project starts in July and will … Continue reading Research News – May 2022
This is a collection of longer or shorter complaints by PhD researchers in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Most of them were previously filed independently as feedback in our Annual Progress Monitoring Form and/or in the Spring Check-in Survey conducted by the college. We speak out here against the disastrous effects … Continue reading Shouting Together: Sociology PhD complaints against the destructive actions of Goldsmiths’ Senior Management
by the Department of Sociology Below you may find the answers provided by the Department of Sociology to a proposal by the Senior Management Team for a so-called “connected curriculum”, an attempt to make a certain number of modules mandatory for all undergraduate students of all disciplines. While we cannot publish the actual proposal, we … Continue reading Our Response to SMT’s “Connected Curriculum”
New Exhibition of Workshop Outputs This exhibition explores what it is to live a life without drugs and alcohol where they have previously featured heavily. It is based on a collaboration between a researcher, two artists, Isla Millar and Penny Maltby, and seven research participants. It forms part of an early-career research project led by … Continue reading “I am a Work in Progress” – The Art of Living With(out) Drugs
Publications The Sociology Society has produced a new issue of SPLIT Magazine written by students. Sara Farris has just published a new article (co-authored with Nira Yuval-Davis and Catherine Rottenberg), “The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis”. State Crime. Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021), pp. 284-303. Beverley Skeggs, Sara R. … Continue reading Research News – February 2022
‘An Archive of Unwavering Strength’ by the MA Gender, Media and Culture The Goldsmiths Senior Management Team (SMT) proposed redundancies of up to 32 professional services staff and 20 academics in English & Creative Writing and History, under the argument that these cuts are necessary to ensure the future of the college. Professional services staff … Continue reading The #GoldStrike Solidarity Zine
New Sociology Zine Issue (December 2021) The Sociology Society is happy to announce the new issue of SPLIT_MAG. SPLIT is a zine made by sociology students, for everyone. This issue’s theme is EMERGENCE, with texts by Les Back, Red Burgess, Connor Kooner, Georgia Lyons, Maria Riga, Brooklyn Saunders, and Elsa Thomas. Oxford Languages (used by … Continue reading SPLIT #4 – Emergence
Publications Evelyn Ruppert with Stephan Scheel published an edited collection with Goldsmiths Press based on the findings of Evelyn’s ERC project, ARITHMUS. It includes chapters co-authored by different combinations of the six-member project team: Data Practices: Making Up a European People. The book is Open Access and will soon be downloadable in pdf from MIT … Continue reading Research News – December 2021
