Just published – Abby Day’s research about the last active Anglican generation whose disappearance will accelerate Christianity’s decline in the ‘global North’. The details for the book can be found here. Continue reading The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen
Research undertaken by Professor Daniel Neyland and Dr Sveta Milyaeva offers the first in-depth, qualitative analysis of the UK Higher Education Research Excellence Framework. The report generated from their research is available from: www.marketproblems.com http://www.marketproblems.com/uploads/2/6/2/7/26276885/mists_ref_report_final.pdf Continue reading Goldsmith reveals key findings in new research into REF 2014
Professor Evelyn Ruppert writes in The Sociological Review about her recent visit to Davos. Continue reading The Other Davos: A Sociologist Goes to the World Economic Forum
A Paper by Martin Savransky “A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and the Politics of Reality” is now out in a special issue in Sociology on epistemologies of the south, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Gurminder Bhambra. Continue reading A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and the Politics of Reality
Franco Rosso director and co-writer of Babylon (1980) passed away on 9th December, 2016 aged 75. The film’s soundtack was written by UK reggae legend Dennis Bovell. On the Sunday the 22nd January, 2017 Dennis dedicated his entire Dub on Air radio show on Soho Radio as a tribute to Franco, and Sociology’s Les Back joined him. You can Listen Again to the … Continue reading Dub On Air with Dennis Bovell
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
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
