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Roger Burrows
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Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture.

Prof at University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies & Hon Prof Fellow, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne & Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, University of Adelaide. .. more

Engineering 22%
Economics 22%

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New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio
What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...
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Playing around with these ideas in relation to housing of late eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...
References: Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation
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Very useful exchange.
An exchange in TSI on Greta Krippner and @asociologist.bsky.social’s paper “The Person and the Category”, about insurance scores and classes, with a comment from Rogers Brubaker, one from Marion Fourcade & myself, and a reply. (Bonus tech thumbnail of guy being horrifically blinded by his screen.)
Comment and Reply: "The Person of the Category"
Editorial Note: In 2023, Rogers Brubaker submitted a comment to Theory and Society on an article that Greta Krippner and Daniel Hirschman had published the year prior in the same journal. Richard Swed...
www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org

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ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec).

This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.

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We are very happy to announce our huge online seminar series for 2026!
You can see the details for the whole thing at our Eventbrite page and each one below.
Newcastle Youth Studies Centre
The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in.Too of...
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The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.

Burrows, R. (2025). Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism. Thesis Eleven, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Asset classes? Some reflections on the ‘new class realities’ of rentier capitalism - Roger Burrows, 2025
In their recent work, Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings challenge traditional employment-based class models, arguing that asset ownership, particu...
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Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction!
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co

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#CentresOfExcellence #CE26

ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!

It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.

www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
Reply to some great comments on mine and Gavin Wood’s piece on #housing, the asset economy and a resurgence of rentier capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reply to Comments on the Edges of Owner Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
This piece replies to some fine scholarship from the six commentators who have taken up the pen in response to our focus article. We hope our reply does them justice and invites others to join the ...
www.tandfonline.com

I think, on balance, my most played Fall album. But Shiftwork and Nation coming up on the outside … just reread Hanley mid week book after listening to the Oh Brother podcasts

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Roger Burrows and Amber Howard point to the importance of digital infrastructures and algorithmic risk profiling in their commentary "Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation"
Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation
This article offers a critical response to Smith and Wood’s concept of “the edges” of owner-occupation. While the category remains analytically diffuse, we argue that digital infrastructures – part...
www.tandfonline.com

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NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).
The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter
How Stuff Matters
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