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What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…

LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 5h

What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse?

This podcast by LSE researcher Sarah Kerr explores the links between wealth, poverty and power, featuring experts from LSE Sociology and beyond.

🎧 Listen here 👇

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Not just lines on a map | Borders to belonging

LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 1d

🗺️ How can we better understand how borders are connected to inequalities? Should we re-evaluate how we think about borders altogether? And what will the future of borders look like?

Join @afsee-lse.bsky.social tonight to discuss borders in a changing world.

⏰ 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre

6.30pm Thurs 9 Oct | Tarsis Brito, Maya Goodfellow, Luke de Noronha | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

British Journal of Sociology Conference

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 1d

Submit your paper to the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference!

The conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025 ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Find out more about the BJS conference 2026, which will provide an in-person platform for academics across the discipline to advance their research.

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 3d

With the budget fast approaching, join us for a public #event with Office for Budget Responsibility speakers to talk about UK fiscal pressures.

👛 A Sustainable Leviathan? UK Finances in a Changing World
📅 Friday 17 October, 5.30pm to 7pm
📍 LSE
📩 Register now 👇🏾

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A Sustainable Leviathan? UK Finances in a Changing World

Join us for a special event closing the workshop "A Sustainable Leviathan?" where we bring the debate from theory to practice.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

On liberalism: in defence of freedom

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 4d

📢 #Public #event annoucement!
📕 On liberalism: in defence of freedom
🗣️ #Book launch and discussion with Professor @casssunstein.bsky.social (Harvard) and Professor @pjthinker.bsky.social (LSE)
🗓️ Friday 17 October
⏰ 11.30am to 12.30pm
📍 In person only, sign up required

www.lse.ac.uk/events/on-li...

11.30am Fri 17 Oct | Cass Sunstein | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 2d

The award-winning Black Atlantic exhibition is at LSE! The exhibition tells the stories that have been silenced from history. It shows how through resisting colonial slavery, people produced new cultures known as the Black Atlantic.

On display in the Marshall Building all October.

Black Atlantic: power, people, resistance exhibition

Mon 6 October to Friday 31 October | Free exhibition at LSE

Should lab animals have rights? - LSE Review of Books

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 3d

A Mouse in a Cage by Dr Carrie Friese explores the ethical challenges of using animals in scientific research, bringing a thoughtful and humane perspective to debates around animal testing in scientific research.

Read more in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 👇

A Mouse in a Cage by Carrie Friese explores the ethical challenges of using lab animals in scientific research.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 4d

🎉 Congratulations to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social!

”‘Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain”, a co-authored paper drawing on Dr Hilhorst’s award-winning doctoral thesis, is out now #openaccess in The Sociological Review journal.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 4d

We're pleased to announce that our Inaugural Craig J. Calhoun Prize for an Outstanding Thesis in Sociology has been awarded to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social. Her thesis investigated the shifting politics of ex-mining and manufacturing towns in the Midlands.

Read more about the prize 👇

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Is migration an invasion? Whiteness, borders and colonialism in Europe

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 7d

Are migrants invading Europe? This @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social article explores how European conceptions of white nativeness have combined with the legacy of colonialism to portray migration as a state of siege.

Are migrants invading Europe? Tarsis Brito shows how notions of white nativeness have combined with colonial legacies to portray migration as a state of siege.

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE

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LSE British Politics and Policy blog @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 8d

💡New! Elite school students end up in better universities than expected.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 8d

We're delighted to be joined this evening by Adrian Favell and Mike Savage for our special screening of 'From Where We Stand', a documentary on post-Brexit Northern England and how ethnic diversity is negotiated in the often tough post-Brexit landscape. #LSESociology

A mouse in a cage – a feeling for the rights of another species -

LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 8d

Is the use of laboratory animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly faraway life of a laboratory mouse.

Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️

Is medical testing on animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues while there are no easy answers, humans can learn a great deal from the life of a laboratory mouse.

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 22d

📣 #Public #event announcement!
💡 Thinking Popular Mobilization with Gramsci
📅 Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm to 7pm, #LSE
📖 Book launch and discussion of Professor John Chalcraft's book
📧 Sign up required

👉🏽https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/events/2025/Thinking-Popular-Mobilization-with-Gramsci

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 8d

Join us tonight for our screening of From Where We Stand and Q&A with its director, Lucy Kaye.

This documentary explores race, belonging & post-Brexit Northern England.

🕔 5pm to 7.30pm
📍OLD 3.24, LSE Old Building
🎟️ Free and open to all!
🔗 buff.ly/f7Ycglm

#LSESociology #LSEEvents

Should lab animals have rights? - LSE Review of Books

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 9d

NEW✨ Should lab animals have rights?

A Mouse in a Cage by Carrie Friese @lsesociology.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social explores the #ethical challenges of using #animals in scientific #research.

#Review by Luciano Magaldi Sardella.

A Mouse in a Cage by Carrie Friese explores the ethical challenges of using lab animals in scientific research.

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

The research video for our book Born to Rule (made by the brilliant Maayan Arad) is a Finalist for a Lovie Award. It’s now down to a public vote so please have a watch and, if you like it, vote for us! vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting... @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

The People's Lovie Awards needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a People's Lovie Awards. You should too.

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 10d

In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.

Read the full article here ⬇️

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 10d

📢 Don’t miss Professor Anthony Bogues at LSE!

Drawing on radical anti-colonial thought, he’ll unpack how liberalism’s history shapes today’s authoritarian turn.

🗓️ Wed 22 Oct | 🕔 5pm to 6.30pm | 📍 OLD.3.24

🔗 buff.ly/6slLlih
#LSEHumanRights #LSESociology

Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

Anthony Bogues at this free LSE even to discuss a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism.

LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 11d

Join us this week for a screening of From Where We Stand – a moving portrait of race, nation & belonging in post-Brexit Britain.

🎤 With filmmaker Lucy Kaye, Professor Adrian Favell, and Professor Mike Savage.
🔗 buff.ly/f7Ycglm

A mouse in a cage – a feeling for the rights of another species -

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LSE EUROPP Blog @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 11d

Is the use of laboratory animals ethical?

Carrie Friese @lsesociology.bsky.social argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly far away life of a laboratory mouse. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Is medical testing on animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues while there are no easy answers, humans can learn a great deal from the life of a laboratory mouse.

blogs.lse.ac.uk