Emma Jackson
@emmakjackson.bsky.social
Sociologist. Ethnography, cities, practices of belonging, walking. Research consultancy, evaluation and training.
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Emma Jackson
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You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey - Emma Jackson, Agata Lisiak, 2025
An avid supporter of Liverpool Football Club, geographer Doreen Massey was known to sing the club’s anthem, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, on her hikes in the Lake ...
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New article🎉 at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social 'You'll never walk alone: Theorizing Engaged Walking with Doreen Massey by Agata Lisiak and I. ://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HUPIBYQSFD5T2JEVIIIA/full
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This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter
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How To Do Social Research With...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter
www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
New audio paper by Konstantinos Damianakis, Louise Rondel and me. It brings to life a discussion across sound studies and urban sociology about listening, rivers and … mermaids. seismograf.org/node/20849?f...
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New audio paper by Konstantinos Damianakis, Louise Rondel and me. It brings to life a discussion across sound studies and urban sociology about listening, rivers and … mermaids. seismograf.org/node/20849?f...
Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess).
💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.
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💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!
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“Live Methods made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood & written about.”
@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.
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@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“Live Methods made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood & written about.”
@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.
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@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.
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Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.
How football chants became the folk music of today
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June 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.
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🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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June 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thank you to all of our contributing authors and to @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar for their powerful and often moving conversation with me and fellow editor @emmakjackson.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Live Methods
May 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Thank you to all of our contributing authors and to @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar for their powerful and often moving conversation with me and fellow editor @emmakjackson.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Live Methods
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Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
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Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
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May 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever
This has been a long time in the making, but I’m delighted to share this special issue of @thesociologicalreview.org edited by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & I.
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
buff.ly/sM4Uta3
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
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May 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This has been a long time in the making, but I’m delighted to share this special issue of @thesociologicalreview.org edited by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & I.
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📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social
New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿
@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
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New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿
@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
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Research Associate - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE):Manchester
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May 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social
New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿
@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
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New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿
@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
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If you're watching the London Marathon tomorrow, look out for my @adey70.bsky.social and give him a cheer.
Our very own senior arts correspondent, Adrian Lobb, is swapping interviews for running shoes on Sunday, 27 April, taking on the biggest London Marathon to date, to raise money for the Big Issue.
We're cheering him on, and you can too! Sponsor @adey70.bsky.social below. ⬇️
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We're cheering him on, and you can too! Sponsor @adey70.bsky.social below. ⬇️
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April 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you're watching the London Marathon tomorrow, look out for my @adey70.bsky.social and give him a cheer.
Next week in Manchester. The Sociological Review inaugural quiz. I’m at the helm. Come on down!
23 April: Join us in Manchester!
Quizmaster @emmakjackson.bsky.social says: “We want this to be a fun event that brings people together. Most questions are multiple choice – and some rounds are downright silly. Bring your friends or come on your own and make some new ones!” –
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Quizmaster @emmakjackson.bsky.social says: “We want this to be a fun event that brings people together. Most questions are multiple choice – and some rounds are downright silly. Bring your friends or come on your own and make some new ones!” –
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April 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Next week in Manchester. The Sociological Review inaugural quiz. I’m at the helm. Come on down!
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We are heading upstream for this year’s London Rivers Week. Tell your friends in Petts Wood! www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...
London Rivers Week 2025: Tales from the Kyd Brook - A story-sharing workshop in Petts Wood - Thames21
Get involved in Thames21's clean up work and training across London
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April 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We are heading upstream for this year’s London Rivers Week. Tell your friends in Petts Wood! www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...
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Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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A conference for post-graduate and early career researchers
Sheffield, UK - June 26th and 27th, 2025
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March 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Assistant Professor in Sociology (Environmental Health)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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March 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social
Manchester University Press - The return of the housewife
The return of the housewife - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The return of the housewife by Emma Casey
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March 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social
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OUT NOW: in the new issue of The Sociological Review journal, we reassess Bev Skeggs' acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender.
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@jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess
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@jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess
March 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
OUT NOW: in the new issue of The Sociological Review journal, we reassess Bev Skeggs' acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/
@jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/
@jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess
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Come and join us at LSE!
Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography
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Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography
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Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography
Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography,
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February 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Come and join us at LSE!
Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography
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Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography
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upcoming bsa ecr event! Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’? 21 March 2025 (10am–3.30pm)
Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building)
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building)
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
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February 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
upcoming bsa ecr event! Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’? 21 March 2025 (10am–3.30pm)
Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building)
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building)
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
2 PhD Candidates for the project
Leiden University's Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) is looking for2 PhD Candidates for the project “Climate Citizenship (4 years, full time) We welcome applications...
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February 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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CLOSING TODAY: the Sociological Review Foundation is hiring an Editorial Officer to manage the journal’s review process and support the Editor-in-Chief and team of editors.
Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply.
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Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
CLOSING TODAY: the Sociological Review Foundation is hiring an Editorial Officer to manage the journal’s review process and support the Editor-in-Chief and team of editors.
Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply.
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Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply.
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"Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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February 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“For us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others.”
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
January 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“For us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others.”
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I