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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
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Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
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The recording of our November #IdentitiesEvent is now available:

'Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender #Racialization among Polish #Migrants and Returnees'

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Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender Racialization
In this talk, Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska developed the concept of peripheral Whiteness in the context of Eastern Europeans, arguing that their position is characterized by conditional access to the privileges associated with Whiteness. Focusing on the example of Polish migr
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Call for Papers for interesting two day workshop on autonomist organising in West Asia and North Africa, organised by Jade Saab in Sociology here at University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgarc.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/committees...
Committees, Councils, and Federations in the WANA region
Histories and Futures of Autonomist Organising in West Asia and North Africa
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December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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We are excited to share this new publication based upon ethnography of care homes: Debelt, J and Norberg, I (2025) The bureaucracy of interpretation: care and communication in Sweden and Germany. ALTER:European Journal of Disability Research. 19(4).93-113. journals.openedition.org/alterjdr/15038
The bureaucracy of interpretation
1. Introduction People with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) require significant support to have their needs met and for their everyday life to function; these needs are wide-...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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So here is my first post: my latest open access article ‘The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion…’ in International Politics journal, discussing my experiences participating in a project to work in five African countries link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity - International Politics
This article analyses the international queer politics of development by examining UK aid addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, plus (LGBT+) inclusion in the context of COVID-19 and right-wing ...
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November 16, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
A-level and undergraduate teaching resources Free to download from the Sociological Review Foundation Our world, through the eyes of sociologists
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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So glad to see this open access article on Indonesian parrot trade finally in print! Great last publication to (almost) round off the year #GCRF #parrots #wildlifetrade #IWT #COVID #openaccess @thesccjr.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social -
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Investigating the illegal online trade of Indonesian parrots (Psittacine) - European Journal of Wildlife Research
Targeted for characteristics such as their colourful appearance, intelligence, and ability to recognize the human voice, parrots (order Psittaciformes) have become a coveted commodity. They are theref...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Two forthcoming events which might be of interest including a talk about her new book on Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left, by a former member of our PhD community - @scarletharris.bsky.social
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 23h
Two FREE Sociology events this Thursday!🎤

At @manchester.ac.uk, author @scarletharris.bsky.social will be discussing her new book on what is, and isn't, being done to tackle Islamophobia in Britain.

At @glasgow.ac.uk, join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social to chat all things wind power.
Promotional image for Scarlet Harris's book talk at The University of Manchester. A photograph of Scarlet next to the cover of her book, Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left sits next to details about the time and place of the event. Promotional image for Marianna Dudley's book talk at Glasgow University. A photograph of Marianna and the cover of her book, Electric wind, sit next to information about the date, time and place of the event.
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture is next week December 10th 2025, 6pm UK time and given Dr. Ben Carrington (University of Southern California), the first winner of the award. Please register and attend the meeting via this zoom link: emory.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Stuart Hall Prize Lecture. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Culture Section of the ASA is pleased to announce the inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture on Wednesday, December 10 (10 AM Pacific Time) by Dr. Ben Carrington (University of Southern California), ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Join us for the next PEFF Seminar where Yu Sun, our colleague within the Division, examines how the public use of environmental data in China transforms public advocacy and contentious politics. Discussant: Kat Fradera (Law). Friday, 12 December, 11:30am–12:30pm, ARC 225.
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The latest episode of The #Identities Podcast is now live!

Episode 8: Beyond the Border: Poetics of Refuge and Critical Classroom Praxis

With @hyabyohannes.bsky.social & @teresap.bsky.social, Chaired by @nasarmeer.bsky.social

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December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Brilliant open-access collection of essays on 'The Cultural Location of Fascism' here including by @gavant.bsky.social @charlottefraser.bsky.social + many more I couldn't find on here!

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The Cultural Location of Fascism
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December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Proud to say this book will be out in the next two weeks
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scotunipress.bsky.social Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · Nov 4
We're thrilled to share the cover of our next #OpenAccess book!

'Democratising spy watching' examines surveillance scandals across eight Southern African countries, suggesting that a new model of public oversight of #surveillance is possible!

Read more here: www.sup.ac.uk/forthcoming-...
The front cover of Democratising spy watching: Public oversight of intelligence-driven surveillance in Southern Africa edited by Jane Duncan and Allen Munoriyarwa. In the top right corner is a graphic of black surveillance camera pointing downwards. Below are 5 shadow figures of humans staring up at the camera, one is pointing up towards the camera.
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Caste aside? Researcher Madhuri Kamtam hears from female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry who remain exploited, excluded and ignored owing to their caste and gender – and who are claiming their rights. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine.

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Close-up of a Dalit woman’s hands rolling a beedi cigarette, surrounded by tobacco and tendu leaves, representing the invisible labour of women fighting for recognition and rights in India’s beedi industry.
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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2/ ...a related blog for @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social explores those same questions and asks what a socially just response to climate change might mean.
Rethinking Climate Adaptation Through Social Justice & Vulnerability
Climate adaptation must confront inequality and social vulnerability to become effective, just and truly transformative as climate risks intensify globally.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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1/ This new article by @nasarmeer.bsky.social in Social Policy & Society challenges a failure to consider the extent to which the consequences of climate change are profoundly shaped by racialised inequalities both within and between nations...
Social Policy and the Determinants of Vulnerability – Missing ‘Race’ in Climate Adaptation | Social Policy and Society | Cambridge Core
Social Policy and the Determinants of Vulnerability – Missing ‘Race’ in Climate Adaptation
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December 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.
noxyin.bsky.social Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 18d
Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning

Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.

Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.

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December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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1/2 Check out Lluis de Nadal's new article on social media's role in the growing backlash against climate action.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Low-emissions, High Tensions: Social Media Groups and the Escalation of Climate Obstruction
Backlash against climate policy is rare, but it is growing as policies become more present in everyday life, and resistance is becoming more confrontational. In the UK, this includes property destr...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social was one of a number of speakers at this launch of the @nuffieldfoundation.org Racial Diversity UK programme, aimed at supporting research that will contribute to a deeper understanding of the barriers and pathways to a racially just and inclusive society.
Racial Diversity UK: shaping racially just and inclusive futures - Nuffield Foundation
Event information The Nuffield Foundation’s RDUK programme funds research that seeks to deepen understanding...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Here's a new piece by our own Jane Duncan, in the @dailymaverick.co.za, about the increasingly unaccountable use of AI by national security agencies.
We need to stop the spies abusing Silicon Valley’s runaway AI in the name of national security | Daily Maverick
Intelligence has become about obtaining and maintaining global dominance rather than just protecting countries against imminent threats. It is now too risky to leave intelligence agencies to police th...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.

RSVP at the link below!
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Enjoyed writing this for Everything Jazz - my album of the year Jon Batiste’s Big Money www.everythingjazz.com/the-14-best-...
The 14 Best Jazz Albums of 2025 - Everything Jazz
Our experts have decided: whether brand new recordings or lovingly remastered, reissued and rediscovered treasures – these are our 14 jazz albums of the year. Go directly to each write-up by clicking ...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Our own @crmnlgy.bsky.social was on Radio 4's Free Thinking recently discussing, amongst other things, gang rituals, Durkheim and the magic of tattie scones.
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Finding my tribe
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss connections, divisions and creating new political parties.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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What do we know about why people do or don't trust media sources in the digital age? @catherinehapper.bsky.social explores what the research tells us in this new contribution to @uk.theconversation.com
What a decade of research reveals about why people don’t trust media in the digital age
How did we go from an era of high trust in 20th-century media to such low levels of trust today?
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December 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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in this blog, published yesterday in the Scotland on Sunday, @pauljreilly.bsky.social calls for critical caution in how we engage with, and interpret, social media debates over immigration.
Op-ed published in Scotsman on Sunday
Op-ed in Scotland on Sunday Yesterday I had an op-ed published in Scotland on Sunday. I discussed the toxic immigration debates on social media and the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform party onl…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This year’s Cultural Sociology Sage Prize winner discusses how ways of conceptualizing national belonging and geopolitical ideologies shape how cultural products are inserted into global art and literary worlds.

Read the full article, now for free.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM