OUT NOW: issue 72.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring: Nina Pohler Dr Emma Casey Daniel Smith Anu Kantola Daniel Edmiston Jan Dobbernack Alexandrina Vanke Andrea Schikowitz Ruby Y. S. Lai Miro Born Lake Lui Ming-sho Ho Hanna Kuusela Rhian Powell buff.ly/49WCStF

Please stand in solidarity with us at Goldsmiths as we oppose huge job losses in social sciences, arts and humanities.

Happy that our Special Issue of Discourse is out: The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state. Has been a real pleasure working with Aline Courtois & Rebeccaboden to put this together. It's a great line up of papers 🧵 tandfonline.com/toc/cdis20/45/3

Very nice surprise to be shortlisted for the 2023 Urban Studies Best Article award with Hamish Kallin. Congrats to all the other papers shortlisted and to the joint winners Miro Born + Japhy Wilson Urban Studies Journal journals.sagepub.com/page/usj/colle…

We are pleased to announce that the #UrbanStudies #BestArticle2023 has been awarded to two joint winners! Congratulations to Anthony Miro Born (Miro Born) and Japhy Wilson. Read the winning articles and seven shortlisted papers for free on our website: urbanstudiesonline.com/best-article/

Urban Studies #BestArticle2023: The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood by Miro Born ow.ly/e3fG50RJTps #OpenAccess

Huge congrats to Miro Born for winning this well-deserved award for an article based on his research as a PhD student in LSE Sociology!

Summer 2024 ethnography recommendation: Grazia Deng: Chinese Espresso (Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s)

I spent election night 2019 with many other pple in Chingford &WG helping get the vote out for the hugely popular Faiza Shaheen. This baseless Orwellian action is part of a wider undemocratic authoritarian purge of the left & is rightly widely seen as misogynistic & racist

Heft 2/24 des Berliner Journals für Soziologie ist erschienen!

Das aktuelle Berliner Journal für Soziologie Heft enthält auch einen Artikel von Lars Meier und mir zu einer Soziologie der Räume des Reichtums ("Auf der Suche nach Grünwald und Grunewald"). link.springer.com/article/10.100….

There is NO convincing financial justification for proposed redundancies Goldsmiths, University of London In fact new HESA data shows it's doing well given the sector hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analy… Time to stop giving millions to private consultancies & reverse the cuts! #NotADoneDeal Goldsmiths UCU

Goldsmiths Management have come back to us after consultation and still plan to make many of us redundant- 133 people. But it is #notadonedeal. Ways to support us. 1. Make a noise! Join this mornings Twitterstorm 2. Donate here to the support fund goldsmithsucu.org/2024/03/25/guc…

Thank you to my LSE colleagues Mike Savage Sam Friedman Suzi Hall & Suki Ali for standing up for me. I’ve been so moved by the solidarity from old and current colleagues and my community. Solidarity is so healing. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Today marks 7 years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives in this preventable tragedy. They were victims of corporate greed and institutional neglect. The fight for justice is far from over. #Justice4Grenfell

Sending love and solidarity to my Sociology, Goldsmiths friends and colleagues today. I can't get my head around the scale and brutality of the redundancies. The hardship fund is here: goldsmithsucu.org/support-fund/

DIVE IN! Professor Bev Skeggs’s archive is online. Includes #research & #teachingresources by the renowned sociologist, feminist & campaigner against #inequalities, and former editor of #TheSociologicalReview & former chief executive of our Foundation. bevskeggs.com

In this new article I mix together reflections on my own university experience in a particular time and place with a discussion of the types of 'university carewashing' happening today. Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Did you attend Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference, or got FOMO if not? Want to hear from the likes of Sergio Montero, Colin McFarlane and many others? We’ve got you covered with our miniseries #WalkingTheCityWith... kicking off our brand new #UrbanStudiespodcast! urbanstudiesonline.com/podcast/

This is quite simply an extraordinary book - like all great sociological arguments it reveals the whole structure of society through one thing - in this case poetry. The best book I have read in recent memory.