Research News – December 2021 – Sociology, Goldsmiths

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 Press.

Evelyn Ruppert and Francisca Gromme also published an article in Science & Technology Studies: Imagining Citizens as More than Data Subjects: A Methodography of a Collaborative Design Workshop on Co-producing Official Statistics.

Jennifer Fleetwood has had a chapter published in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice on Narrative Criminology and Ethnography.

Corine van Emmerik has had a chapter published: Aesthetics from the Interstices. The making of a Home in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. In ‘Everydayness. Contemporary Aesthetic Approaches,’ 2021. Published by Roma Tre-press & University of Prešov, Faculty of Arts.

Vik Loveday’s research on luck was cited in a recent article in The Washington Post.

Fay Dennis has published an invited summary piece on her article ‘Drug fatalities and treatment fatalism’ for Talking Drugs, an online platform for drug policy news.

A new podcast ‘Decoding Culture’ has just been published. It features Les Back on the Art of Listening.The book ‘Migrant City’ written by Shamser Sinha and Les Back has just been translated into Japanese. It also has a new Preface based on interviews with the participants about living through the Covid 19 Pandemic. This was given as a talk entitled ‘The Migrant City and the Covid 19 Pandemic’, on 14th December 2021 at City, Public Space & Body.

Forthcoming

From January, Jennifer Fleetwood will be an editor of the British Journal of Criminology, replacing David Gadd.

Les Back has just submitted a new book called The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism with Michael Keith, Kalbir Shukra and John Solomos, which will be published by Cambridge University Press next year.Les has also just published an essay in the next edition of Soundings: ‘When you score you’re English, when you miss you’re Black’: Euro 2020 and the Racial Politics of a Penalty Shoot Out; Les Back and Kelly Mills. This is a lovely collaboration with Goldsmiths student, Kelly Mills, who did her undergraduate degree at Goldsmiths and is currently undertaking an MSc in Social Research. The essay will also be translated into Japanese.

News

Emma Jackson and Louise Rondel have been working on the project Sounding the River Quaggy with colleagues from the Music Department. The project’s sound map, which combines interviews and soundscapes, launched at the Being Human Festival on November 13th and can be found here.

Martin Savransky gave an online talk on his new book project, The Murmurs of the Outside: Subaltern Ecologies and Speculative Methodologies of Life at the Department of Geography, University of Bristol, on 3 November.

Martin also discussed his recently published book, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (Duke University Press, 2021), at Diffrakt: Centre for Theoretical Periphery, in Berlin on Monday 8 November.

Alberto Toscano curated a documentary on Furio Jesi (1941-1980), an Italian scholar of myth, literature and the politics of the Right, Furio Jesi: Myth, Politics, History, produced in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in London and filmed by Daniel Renwick and Paolo Marzoni.

Martin Savransky delivered a workshop on How to Do (Speculative) Things with Stories at Diffrakt: Centre for Theoretical Periphery, in Berlin on Monday 8 November.

Maisie Tomlinson gave a talk at an online conference on animal privacy on 9 November – hosted by the University of Kent and the University of Copenhagen.

Alex Rhy-Taylor has been working with artists and community organiser Nurull Islam (along with Phakam and Arts Council England) on a project called The Full English. The project looks at the growing integration of quintessentially British cuisine into the lives of 21st century British Muslim lives. A podcast about the project (featuring Alex) that has just come out.

A discussion of the book Racist Tones is online (co-written by Nirmal Puwar). It has now been riso-printed in a second limited edition.

Nirmal Puwar has participated in several UK City of Culture events through collaborations with colleagues at Warwick University. This has included: Boliyan and Activism with Ravi Thiara and Preet Grewal; Sampling Sounds of the Future (29 Oct 2021, Common Ground Cafe, Coventry) with Noortje Marres and Naomi Waltham-Smith; Keynote on Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place (Freie University, Berlin, 4 Nov 2021); Screening + Discussion of Unravelling at the Coventry-Dresden Exchange, Litten Tree Building (Coventry, 17 Nov 2021).

Nirmal was also invited to run a Writing Workshop on RV Furor Scribendi, a floating short story library, described as a research vessel. A Studio Morison project, co-commissioned with Super Slow Way in collaboration with Coventry Libraries & Lancashire Libraries (26 Sept 2021).

With colleagues Emily Grabham (Kent), Dawn Lyon (Kent), Corine van Emmerik (Goldsmiths), Chloe Turner (Goldsmiths) and artists Paula Varjack and Chuck Blue Lowry, Beckie Coleman is involved in launching an artist response to their research on Covid-19, time and feelings on 21 December at 13.31. The mobile visual experience was made in collaboration with students at a local girl’s secondary school and Clare Stanhope.

Last month, Fay Dennis spoke on a roundtable on ‘The political economy of drug-induced pleasure’ at the Harm Reduction International’s Constellations festival.

Caroline Knowles recently gave three talks; Infrastructures of Plutocratic London, 2021 BritCult Conference, talking about Investigating the Super-Rich: Representations of Great Wealth in British Cultures, at Leipzig University; Globalisation on the Ground, at NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi; and lastly Studying Elites at the NCRM Innovation Forum.

Fauzia Ahmad gave a presentation based on her research to a group called ‘Soul Connexions’ on 5 December at Marylebone School, Marylebone. The presentation was entitled The British Muslim Marriage Crisis.

Events

There will be a writing workshop and panel discussion on the book Racist Tones (T. Patel, D. Piparia, N. Puwar, J. Samra), at the Herbert Museum and Gallery, with the curator Hammad Nasar, in January 2022.

Nirmal Puwar will be on the panel discussion for the exhibition at Compton Verney Gallery on Masterji on 15th February 2021.

In January, Fay Dennis is launching an exhibition at the Constance Howard Gallery, entitled I am a work in progress. It is based on a collaboration between her, two artists and a group of individuals in recovery-treatment for drug/alcohol dependencies, and forms part of her Wellcome Fellowship project.