November Magazine: Music Elicitation Method by Jade Levell

This is an audio conversation between Julia Sauma, Islam Al Khatib, Hafsa Haji, Akanksha Mehta and Grace Tillyard to accompany the article by Akanksha and Grace for the August issue of the Sociological Review magazine on Strikes and Care. The conversation was facilitated and edited by Grace Tillyard.

Behind the scenes at a London university strike

This episode brings Chantelle Lewis, editorial manager for The Sociological Review, into conversation with Ronda Daniels and Steph Lacey. They talk about their experiences of being young working class women in Higher Education, of becoming aware of their class backgrounds in these spaces. Reflecting on their initial unease in entering and navigating these spaces, they discuss how these institutional spaces are made in the image of young middle-class students and how this disadvantages those from backgrounds where they have not been brought up to know the rules of the game. As they describe their own trajectories in and through the university, they draw out the strategies that they have developed in order to cope in these spaces, and talk about what needs to change in order to support working class students continued engagements with Higher Education.

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.org.

 

They are produced and edited by Emma Houlton at Art of Podcast http://www.artofpodcast.com.

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Episode 7 Navigating Higher Education as working class women

This episode brings our Managing Editor Michaela Benson into conversation with Maggie O’Neill (University of York) and Holly Argent (Artist, Northern Charter), the instigators the Feminist Walk of Newcastle that took place at the Undisciplining conference. This was a feminist intervention in a city, which, like many others, has obfuscated the role of women in the public and civic live. Maggie and Holly describe how, in bringing together women’s art, history and politics, they strive to put women back into the city and make feminist role models more visible. They also speak to the feminist politics of co-production at the heart of the development of this walk as well as the broader ambition to put the Women Artists of the Northeast Library (initiated by Holly Argent and Rene McBrearty) on the global map of Women’s libraries.

 

If you are interested in finding out more a map of the Feminist Walk of Newcastle designed by Petra Szemán (http://www.petraszeman.com) is available to consult at https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/the-feminist-walk-at-undisciplining.html; Maggie and Holly have also produced a short video about coproducing the walk https://vimeo.com/217149109.

 

To find out more about the Women Artists of the Northeast Library visit https://northerncharter.hotglue.me/?2017wanelibrary.

 

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.org.

 

They are produced and edited by Emma Houlton at Art of Podcast http://www.artofpodcast.com.

Episode 6 Developing a Feminist walk of Newcastle

In this episode, Imogen Tyler, editor of The Sociology of Stigma, talks with Jenna Loyd (University of Wisconsin, Madison) about the neglect of grounded histories of racial segregation, displacement in the conceptual framework of territorial stigmatisation. Thinking with her empirical research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jenna argues that race, racism and racialisation need to take centerstage to ask questions about how racism and racial capitalism occur in particular places, produced through histories of urban planning and development, local and national political contexts.

 

To find out more about these ideas discussed in this episode, read Jenna Loyd and Anne Bonds’ paper ‘Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’ (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026118778175), one contribution to the recent Sociological Review Monograph The Sociology of Stigma edited by Imogen Tyler and Tom Slater and available for purchase at https://store.thesociologicalreview.com/collections/books/products/the-sociology-of-stigma.

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.org.

 They are produced and edited by Emma Houlton at Art of Podcast http://www.artofpodcast.com.

Episode 5 Genealogies of race, place, stigma in the critique of territorial stigmatisation

In this episode, our managing editor Michaela Benson talks with Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University) about her recent work on the sociology of stigma. In keeping with the theme of the conference, Imogen advocates an approach that recognises that sociological knowledge might be produced from outside rigid disciplinary boundaries; as she describes the political urgency of a renewed genealogy of stigma that takes seriously its relationship to racism, she traces how this knowledge and understanding was excluded from the curriculum of US sociology. Retelling the history of stigma from penal tattooing in the Greek and Roman Empire to critical black scholarship about the production of racialised subjects, she presents her critical reconceptualisation of stigma and anti-stigma as sites of active political struggles.

 

To find out more about these ideas discussed in this episode, read the recent Sociological Review Monograph edited by Imogen Tyler and Tom Slater, including their agenda-setting introduction ‘Rethinking the Sociology of Stigma’ (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026118777425). The full volume is available for purchase at https://store.thesociologicalreview.com/collections/books/products/the-sociology-of-stigma.

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.org.

 

They are produced and edited by Emma Houlton at Art of Podcast http://www.artofpodcast.com.

Episode 4 The sociology of stigma and rethinking contemporary social inequalities

What should anti-racist solidarity within and beyond the university look like? In this episode,Chantelle Lewis, editorial manager at the Sociological Review, Adam Elliott-Cooper (Kings College London) and Remi Joseph-Salisbury (University of Manchester) discuss the challenges of doing anti-racist work within and beyond the university. They talk about how to build solidarities that weave together understandings of inter-personal and institutional racisms, while also attending to the anti-racist struggles ongoing internationally. And within this, they call for understandings of racism centred on the relationship of capitalism and imperialism.

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.org.

 

They are produced and edited by Emma Houlton at Art of Podcast http://www.artofpodcast.com.

Episode 3 Decolonisation and anti-racist solidarity within and beyond the University

In this episode, our managing editor Dr Michaela Benson interviews Anna Bull (University of Portsmouth) and Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) about their work with the 1752

group to end sexual misconduct in higher education. They talk frankly about staff to student sexual misconduct, highlighting how power is enacted in and through this, and stress that the development of support structures and reporting procedures within Higher Education institutions is long overdue. Describing the paired strategy of the 1752 group in both working at a national level to lobby for change and conducting research in this area, they highlight their success in getting this issue onto the political agenda and working with institutions to develop codes for best practice.

You can find out more about the 1752 Group on their website: https://1752group.com

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.org.

Episode 2 Ending staff to student sexual misconduct in Higher Education

In this episode our Managing Editor, Michaela Benson talks to Jenny Reardon (University of California. Santa Cruz) about her ongoing research which has involved riding through the wide, open grasslands and cow towns of Kansas. As she explains, this is a project that was designed to develop embodied knowledge of the land and to find out more about attitudes towards contemporary US politics from the denizens of the prairies. By talking about how to know and care for the land with her interlocutors, she uncovers, layer by layer the interlocking effects of globalisation, financialisation and environmental change on how they live their lives.

 

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The Undisciplining Sessions were recorded at Undisciplining, a conference organised by The Sociological Review Foundation Limited in June 2018. Find out more about The Sociological Review, Britain’s longest-standing sociology journal at https://thesociologicalreview.com.

They are produced and edited by Emma Houlton at Art of Podcast http://www.artofpodcast.com

Episode 1 Cycling through Kansas in a time of Trump

In October 2019, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, gave the Sociological Review Annual Lecture in London. This marked twenty years since the publication of her book Decolonizing Methodologies. This pathbreaking volume presented a significant challenge to the ways in which imperialism was embedded in the production of knowledge through social science research.

For this podcast, Michaela Benson (Managing Editor, The Sociological Review) was joined by Sara Salem, editorial board member at The Sociological Review, and Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Linda Tuhiwai Smith to revisit Decolonising Methodologies, reflecting on what has changed since the initial publication of the book and challenges ahead, given the continuing urgency of decolonising social science curricula and social theory.

Decolonising Methodologies, 20 years on: An interview with Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Our Annual Lecture 2018 took place at the Undisciplining conference, with Professor Satnam Virdee (University of Glasgow) and with responses from Dr Sivamohan Valluvan (University of Warwick) and Professor Bev Skeggs (London School of Economics and Political Science). 

Undergirded by the perspective of historical materialism in dialogue with black Marxism and Marxist feminism, this lecture constructs an account demonstrating the significance of racism to the making of modernity. 

The analytic returns of unthinking Eurocentric sociologies in favour of a more unified historical social scientific approach include the unmasking of the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles and racism, particularly how capitalist rule advanced through a process of differentiation and hierarchical re-ordering of the global proletariat. 

From the 17th-century colonization of Virginia to Victorian Britain and beyond, racism formed an indispensable weapon in the armoury of the state elites, used to contain the class struggles waged by subaltern populations with a view to making the system safe for capital accumulation. Additionally, situating an account of racism within the unfolding story of historical capitalism as against the postcolonial tendency to locate it within the civilizational encounter between the West and the Rest helps make transparent the plurality of racisms, including the racialization of parts of the European proletariat. This explanation of the structuring force of racism and the differentiated ways in which the proletariat has been incorporated into capitalist relations of domination has important implications for emancipatory politics. A race-blind politics risks leaving untouched the injustices produced by historic and contemporaneous racisms. 

Instead, an alternative approach is proposed, one that invites movements to wilfully entangle demands for economic justice with anti-racism and thereby embrace and demystify the differences inscribed into the collective body of the proletariat by capitalism. 

Satnam Virdee's Sociological Review journal article based on this lecture, "Racialized capitalism: An account of its contested origins and consolidation" is available here: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118820293

The team from Surviving Society interviewed Satnam after the lecture: https://survivingsocietypodcast.com/2018/10/02/e017-surviving-society-with-the-sociological-review-satnam-virdee/

Annual Lecture 2018 Unthinking Sociology And Overcoming Its History Deficit

This is an audio interview between Charlie Rumbsy and Jenny Lee to accompany the article by Jenny for the June issue of the Sociological Review magazine on Parenting. The interview was conducted and edited by Charlie Rumsby.

Jenny Lee Interview

In the first episode of a new cultural podcast from The Sociological Review, we spoke to Queer Femme Feminist Performance Artiste Bird la Bird about queer history, invisibility and playing in the archive. These themes are all addressed in an upcoming project at the V&A: An Armchair tour of the 'Queer People's knick knack Emporium'. Find out more here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/6258/an-armchair-tour-of-the-queer-peoples-knick-knack-emporium-1670338890/

Bird la Bird and Bird Club: http://birdlabird.co.uk
Photograph (c) Holly Revell

Bird la Bird on queer history, invisibility and playing in the archive

In this podcast Bridget Conor, Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor discuss their new monograph on Gender and Creative Labour with our digital fellow Mark Carrigan. Find out more about the monograph here: http://www.thesociologicalreview.com/information/blog/special-issue-gender-and-creative-labour.html

Gender and Creative Labour

Our deputy editor Michaela Benson talks about her experience as a past fellow of The Sociological Review. Find out more about the fellowship here: https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/fellowship/

The Sociological Review Fellowship: Michaela Benson

In this podcast recorded at the British Sociological Association's 2017 Annual Conference, our Digital Fellow Mark Carrigan talks to editorial board member Noortje Marres about her new book Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research. Find out more about the book here: http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745684789&subject_id=1

What is Digital Sociology?

In this podcast, our Digital Fellow Mark Carrigan talks to Val Gillies and  Rosalind Edwards about their paper Brave New Brains: Sociology, Family and the Politics of Knowledge, co-authored with Nicola Horsley, which won The Sociological Review award for Outstanding Scholarship 2016: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-954X.12374

Brave New Brains: Sociology, Family and the Politics of Knowledge

The Sociological Review is thrilled to be launching the latest of their 2017 monographs, Care and Policy Practices. This podcast was recorded at the launch event for the book, including talks by the guest editors  Vicky Singleton (Lancaster University), Claire Waterton (Lancaster University) and discussants Richard Freeman (University of Edinburgh) and Joanna Latimer (University of York).

Care And Policy Practices

In this podcast our managing editor, Michaela Benson, discusses the implications of Brexit for disabled EEA migrants and carers with Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Yraegael Alexis and Christiane Link, chair of Disire (http://disire.org).

What does Brexit mean for disabled migrants and carers from the European Economic Area?

In this podcast our trustee Gurminder K. Bhambra talks to our digital engagement fellow Mark Carrigan about the possibilities of social media for public sociology and activism. The two projects discussed are Global Social Theory (https://globalsocialtheory.org) and Discover Society (https://discoversociety.org).

Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

Data intimacies: building infrastructures for intensified embodied encounters

with air pollution
Nerea Calvillo (University of Warwick) &amp; Emma Garnett (King’s College, London)

Aesthetics and Affect: Engaging Energy Communities: Mike Michael (University of Exeter) &  Alex Wilkie (Goldsmiths, University of London) & Liliana Ovalle (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Intimate Entanglements session 7

Don’t touch/push me! From alienation to intimacy in wheelchairs users:
Myriam Winance (CR INSERM, CERMES3, Villejuif, Paris)

Technologies of friendship: In search for a diverse common world: Tomás Sánchez Criado, (MCTS, TU Munich)

Provocateur: Wendy Martin (Brunel University)

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Introduction and welcome: Joanna Latimer (University of York) & Daniel López Gómez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). 

Dangerous liaisons: intimacy, technology and experiments in resistance: Joanna Latimer (SATSU, University of York)

Visualising antibiotics in antibiotic resistance: Catherine Will (University of Sussex)

Provocateur: Harriet Smith (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

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Bauman and contemporary sociology - Mark Carrigan interviews Ali Rattansi about his book, 'Bauman and contemporary sociology: a critical analysis'.

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