The man who firebombed the detention centre for refugees in Dover said he planned to 'obliterate Muslim children' an hour before the attack. A mere day later, Suella Braverman refers to refugees as an 'invasion'. These terrorists are enabled by rhetoric from the top.

📢Call for Chapters📢
ali meghji, saskia papadakis, & I are seeking contributions from authors in the Global South for our edited collection Rethinking British Sociology: Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations, intended for the The BSA Sociological Futures series. 1/

These appointments are not only dangerous on their own grounds; they also allow some of the worst people in our discourse to invent a 'free speech' controversy when the appointment is properly challenged by incredulous colleagues/peers

Avtar Brah hosted by sophie marie niang☀️

TUESDAY 1st NOVEMBER 12.30 at the Pitt Building, Trumpington St, Cambridge.

Join us in person to hear Professor Avtar Brah, Birkbeck, University of London on Thinking Colonially through an Intersectional Lens.

Full details here: bit.ly/3W93AJn

I'm happy to announce that the 1st article for the special issue I edited has been published online. The author is Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, a militant Afro-Indigenous decolonial feminist activist intellectual in Brazil who does work with the Zapatistas & MST. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Pre Covid more than a third of Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers were in poverty, and a quarter of Black workers… poverty rates over half for children. but keep talking about racism as prejudice and never pick up a book 😴

I have seen a few people mention it so thought I'd ask: does anyone work at a university where they provide air monitoring / filtration in classrooms?

We are delighted to share a new website containing an archive of A. Sivanandan's writings, speeches, essays, aphorisms and reviews, spanning six decades.

asivanandan.com

TOMORROW! Prof Mike Savage is our speaker for the first in this term's Sociology Seminar Series.

More information here: bit.ly/3S8asmY

Please note that this will be a hybrid event with live audience and remote speaker.

This year’s The BSA conference is going to be a hub for post/decolonial sociology, with plenaries by Gurminder K Bhambra & ali meghji.
If you work on race/ethnicity, migration, diaspora & transnationalism, or post/decolonial thought, please do submit an abstract!

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Last day to submit abstracts for The BSA's annual conf - in person in Manchester in April - 70 free places for BSA members facing financial hardship

I'll be giving the Presidential address & Dr Finn Mackay Adult Human Queermale & ali meghji are also plenary speakers

Join us!
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

Abstract submission is OPEN until this Friday, 14/10, for the BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse - 12-14 April, University of Manchester – “How we can draw out people’s voices and engage with the public?” bit.ly/3xYUi8r #Sociology