Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)

When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!

Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)

When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!

I finally received my visa! I'll be a Visiting Research Scholar at NYU's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis this fall. I'll be working on my new project on environmental racism/repro health in London, but I'd be more than happy to also speak about Palestine/repro injustice in your class/uni

I always feel this weird mixture of grief-cum-pride, both an analytical grasp of class and an intimate affective reaction, whenever I understand that people who are my age and have extremely productive academic careers have most likely grown up to parents who are also writers/professors/academics

This scheme is still open, and includes Palestine:

Does anyone have any book/article recs on the methodological and ethical questions of studying up (i.e., ethnographic studies of politicians, corporations, government employees)?

I'm starting my second major ethnographic research project after the PhD and I can't really tell yet what it is (shifting to a new subfield, doing ethnography as a "researcher" not just a student, less time contraints in terms of outcomes but also life in your mid 30s), but this is challenging!

Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:

open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yeah I have to think about addressing it much more before they write their essays.. any tips?

Someone needs to write about the affective implications of AI knowledge production; after marking a bunch of essays that were either fully or partially written by AI, I feel dumb/numb, angry, and exhausted. They make me crave human mistakes, typos, unfinished thoughts, a wonky structure etc. 😭

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Starvation in Gaza, key findings

Applications are open for our summer lab in the Greek mountain. This year's theme is "Anthropo-Scenes: Restaging Climate Dramas for Environmental Justice". Call open till Sunday 4th May. Pls share!

www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html

*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Starker Beitrag von Hanna Al-Taher und Benjamin Schütze zu Deutschlands verlogener Nahostpolitik: "Was Taten betrifft, ist deutsche Nahostpolitik genozidal und pro-ethnischer Säuberung. Nur wird es weniger offen formuliert als von Trump."
taz.de/!6071887/

So sad to learn of Sandra's death. She was a dear friend and constant inspiration. In the intellectual vanguard of postcolonial science studies, Sandra never ceased pushing us to think more critically, more radically. How I miss those days hanging out in Venice Beach...
#STS #postcol

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue

A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

#palestine #gaza

In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world.

@alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.

www.historyworkshop....

Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte Felix Klein will Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Zustimmung äußerte Klein zu Trumps Plan Gazas Zivilbevölkerung zu vertreiben: „Ich halte es nicht für verkehrt, radikal und einmal völlig neu zu denken“
www.welt.de/politik/deut...

Sandra Harding?

so many articulations of gender 🤝 empire these days

This is so scary! And infuriating

Re-reading Tobi Haslett's n+1 BLM piece in preparation for teaching "Race, Resistance and Modernity" tomorrow; such a poetic & powerful piece! I read it first in 2021, and it's so accurate how what he calls an "amnesiac discourse" has shaped how we remember that moment through a liberal lens today

Join us for Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism with @reproutopia.bsky.social, @galarexer.bsky.social and more. Full details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enemies-fr...
#enemyfeminisms #feminism