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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 16

“It’s a marathon and things take time. This was important for me in the pandemic where everything felt so urgent.” – Ava, houseplant carer

@giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on how plants can alter our relationship to time.

#OpenAccess buff.ly/JdCkrU4

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

St Andrews rector stripped of powers over Gaza row wins appeal

Stella Maris will resume her role as head of the university’s governing body after a successful appeal against the institution.

www.thecourier.co.uk

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 2

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸

Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · May 1

"academia talks collaboration but builds systems (promotion, funding, community recognition) that often undervalue diversity, whether that’s diversity of discipline, publication type, or research approach"

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · May 1

💥New: In academia’s #race for outputs and achievement, Rachael Hains-Wesson & Nira Rahman @unilibrary.bsky.social call for a shift toward connection, mentorship, and belonging—arguing that true intellectual growth depends on inclusive, collaborative cultures.

@RMIT @UniMelb ⬇️

Why we should foster connection and belonging in neo-liberal academia - Impact of Social Sciences

In a system where academic success is defined by outputs and individual achievement, Rachael Hains-Wesson and Nira Rahman call for a shift towards connection and belonging. They argue that an…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 1

How does caring for houseplants reshape the habits and rhythms of everyday life?

@giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on human-plant relationships, forms of attentiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic.

#OpenAccess buff.ly/JdCkrU4

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Apr 30

📢March Issue of Area📢

The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers.

11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Inside the Notebook'. The papers are:

1) Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes
Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham & Tatiana Thieme
2) Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago
Soledad Martinez
3) Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin square
Julia Dzun
4) Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival
Eveleigh Buck-Matthews
5) Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London
Nathaniel Telemaque
6) Voice notes in the car: Capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees
Charishma Ratnam
7) Fieldnotes as never really 'raw' data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank
Alasdair Jones
8) The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood
Tatiana Thieme
9) Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park
Jack Layton

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are:
1) Training young co-researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews
Catherine Walker & Ellen von Holstein
2) Feminist visualisation challenges: Methodological innovation, opportunities, and lessons learned
Kate Coddington & Jill Williams
3) Pedals and throttles: Ride-along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cycle and motorbike taxi drivers
Sarah Turner & Binh Nguyen
4) (Pragmatist) geographies of rankings
Gerhard Rainer
5) Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training
Jonathan Harris
6) Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies
Franziska Paul

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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · Apr 30

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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · Apr 30

What’s in a houseplant craze? Dawn Lyon and I wrote about how human-plant relations nurtured during lockdown unexpectedly reshaped people’s experiences of temporality and rhythm in everyday life.

a potted plant with a face painted on it

ALT: a potted plant with a face painted on it

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Apr 11

Our Folklore Reimagined season begins. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Ronald Hutton FBA delves into England's witch trials and Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. Watch the full video on YouTube: buff.ly/4W0OR4p

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Apr 25

As our Folklore Reimagined season continues, Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar explores the postmillennial wave of djinn-themed horror in Turkish cinema –where Anatolian folklore, Turkic shamanism, and Islamic mythology collide in stories of black magic and demonic possession. buff.ly/OOZJk0E

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · Jan 8

So excited for @stoffelalex.bsky.social 's book launch for Eros and Empire. Sign up below!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...

Find the book here:
www.sup.org/books/politi...

Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the US

Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press). This event is open to all.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @rs21.bsky.social · Dec 22

The call to abolish the family is back, sparking fierce debate on the left. As capitalism reshapes how we live and relate, Alex Stoffel asks if breaking free from the family’s grip can open the door to true liberation.
revsoc21.uk/2024/12/22/w...

What’s left of the bourgeois family? On family abolition

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

revsoc21.uk

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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · Dec 10

Find out about our new project, Base Women and Beyond. Inspired by Cynthia Enloe's pathbreaking work, we seek to revive and extend feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations #AcademySky #PoliSky #IRSky #FeministSky centreforgender.substack.com/p/base-women...

Base Women and Beyond: a new project revives and extends feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations

A collaboration led by Centre for Gender in Politics director, Dr Deiana and Dr Catherine Eschle, University of Strathclyde

centreforgender.substack.com

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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · Dec 5

The recording of our “Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Thru Zines” event is up! Check it out for some fascinating and inspiring discussion! geoz.one/blog/storyte... #geosky @lbnaylor.bsky.social @jaredmargulies.bsky.social

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · Dec 4

This is happening tomorrow! Check out the poster with info & Zoom link below!

Ombre Tarragnat (they/she) @ombretarragnat.bsky.social · Nov 19

The poster for “Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy” is out!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640...

Poster for “Contact Zones: A Masterclass in Continental Philosophy” with an artwork by Anna Hedberg.
Description of the event: What are the basic tenets of posthumanist philosophy today? How does deconstruction meet new materialism, (post-)phenomenology meet feminist theory, and philosophical anthropology meet the posthuman predicament? Which role have existentialism, philosophical ethology, or French Theory played in shaping posthumanism, be it in oppositional ways, and what can they bring to posthumanist philosophy today?
Contact Zones is an online event, a “masterclass” in continental philosophy and a co-learning opportunity organised in collaboration between the Posthumanities Hub at Linköping University and the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS) in Paris.
Date: 5 December
Time: 15:15-17:00 CET
Contact: tuja.torvaldsson@liu.se
Logos of Linköing University, LEGS and Posthumanities Hub

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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · Nov 27

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can’t wait for this !!! ✨

Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨Publication alert!🚨 March 25, 2025: edited by @gentlemanjane.bsky.social & Soma Chaudhuri (eds.), the Witch Studies Reader. 30% discount on advance orders. It’s a great book from @dukepress.bsky.social, & I don’t just say that because I have a chapter in it on internet witchcraft…

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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · Nov 18

Meet the panelists for our upcoming "Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Through Zines" event (12/2 at 4pm Eastern)! Anne Pasek is a zine-maker who works on decarbonizing the uni and the internet! Register for free at bit.ly/4f40aRm @apasek.bsky.social #geosky

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Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · Nov 16

IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect.

Due Date: 31 December 2024 (abstracts: 10 December 2024).
100-1500 words. Published 20 January 2025.

Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or some minor variation thereof) in its essay title.

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Sylvia @silbheuig.bsky.social · Nov 16

Spent this morning reading both issues of the Victorian Vegan.

Some fascinating insights into early veggie journals and culture in the first issue, even if it's a bit all over. Second issue is very good, more structured and some fascinating essays on the veggie communes and anarchist interactions.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Nov 15

In "Prosthetic Memories," Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, & technologies across South Korea & the US to outline alternate modes of memory & connection that can enact feminist & decolonial politics. Read the intro for free now:
ow.ly/QQGa50U7RYE

Cover of Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World by Hyaesin Yoon. Cover features of photo of a white, branch-like sculpture. Multi-colored ceramic scales extend from the branch, each supported by metal rods. The title is written in a gray, all-caps text.

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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · Nov 15

Stegosaurus!

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Lots going on in the world of #planthumanities this autumn... here are some events in London or online that have crossed my inbox:

21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead:
www.slbi.org.uk/events/

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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · Nov 15

Re-posting this ICYMI. 12 articles and creative contributions on feminist methodologies and futures covering computer games, classrooms, disability, Black feminist speculative approaches, baking, websites, workshops, non-linear reading, multi-species flourishing, friction, patchwork ethnography +++

Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · Sep 23

Double special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on Creating Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times now published! Most contributions are open access but feel free to email me if there's something you want to read but can't
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cafs20/3...

Australian Feminist Studies

All journal articles featured in Australian Feminist Studies vol 38 issue 115-116

www.tandfonline.com

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