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city-journal.bsky.social @city-journal.bsky.social · Aug 24

Meritocracy from below: Dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood

Anthony Miro Born

Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4

doi.org/10.1080/1360...

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great!
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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

www.theguardian.com

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Jul 3

🌟 @miroborn.bsky.social was awarded the Outstanding PhD Researcher Impact prize for his project "From PhD Research to Comic: The Price of Social Mobility".

This award recognises excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research.

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · Jun 26

Soon: @miroborn.bsky.social on wealthy neighbourhoods—how affluence gets its aesthetic, its status, its power. ✨
🗓️ july 2 | 12:15 | room 309 @isi-munich.bsky.social
Also: he made a comic about class, mobility and how moving up doesn’t always mean fitting in: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thanks to @davidjmadden.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social @cteeger.bsky.social @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @katharinahppe.bsky.social @sfb1265.bsky.social @benbrundugonzalez.bsky.social and others for their insights on various aspects of this article/the research project!

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Jun 18

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods:
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood

The ideal of a meritocratic society continues to exert significant normative power in political and public discourse, including in discussions about marginalised spaces and neighbourhoods. However,...

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SFB 1265 @sfb1265.bsky.social · Jun 4

Out now #OpenAccess!📖
'Intersectionality and the City' brings together intersectional and spatial perspectives to sharpen our understanding of urban inequalities.
Edited by @miroborn.bsky.social, @ckulz.bsky.social, @sungungang.bsky.social & Lucie Bernroider ⬇️
www.routledge.com/Intersection...

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · May 21

Gratulation!

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · May 7

Many thanks, Linus! And if anyone needs copies, just let me know ✉️

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · May 7

Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · May 2

📚 From Research to Comic: @miroborn.bsky.social's Exploration of Social Mobility 🔗

Together with illustrator Irem Kurt, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthony Miro Born created a short comic on social mobility.

Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

Read the comic 👉 www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

Miro Born stands smiling at the camera and holding his comic

cover of the comic, showing a woman climbing a ladder. The text reads 'Miro Born, Irem Kurt, Movin' on up: a social mobility comic'

a page from miro's comic, showing a conversation between a group of people

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · May 2

I received these comics by @miroborn.bsky.social on growing up in a stigmatized neighbourhood and subsequent social mobility in the mail today. Great example of knowledge dissemination!

Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Mar 25

How can it be that journal editors now take well over a month (and often two or three months) before an article even enters the review process...

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Mar 25

Peer Review in 2025.

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · Mar 21

Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025

CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.

Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

www.lmu.de

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Mar 7

Very interesting Special Issue! @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · Mar 4

I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status.

Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Against culture? Class analysis, strategic essentialism and methodological nationalism after Beverley Skeggs’ Formations of Class and Gender - Simone Varriale, 2025

Beverley Skeggs’ first book (Formations of Class and Gender [FoC&G]) has been central to the study of class and culture, pushing it towards a more sustained con...

journals.sagepub.com

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · Mar 5

Interesting new paper looking at how class ceiling effects are driven by stigmatising cross-class interactions in universities and the workplace

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Mar 5

“They all knew each other from their schools. I felt they were completely indifferent to my existence. I was invisible.” – Catherine, law student, Chile

Malik Fercovic on class stigmatisation in elite institutions.

#OnlineFirst in the journal buff.ly/WixpiPQ

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · Feb 27

I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university.

It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!

Organising as workers to build industrial power within our universities is a key element of how we respond to redundancies, marketisation and other political pressures on higher education. This piece...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Feb 26

Wow.

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Feb 24

Danke für deine Updates!

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Feb 23

Hoffen wir mal, dass Deine Rechnung aufgeht...

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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · Feb 21

Online seminar with Troels Schultz Larsen and Kristian Nagel Delica, who will present their book Fragmenting Cities, with a special focus on the emergence, life and effects of the "ghetto list" in Denmark. March 4 at 13:15 CET. Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#urban #sociology

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Feb 20

What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025?

Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series.

📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025
🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · Feb 10

Exciting lineup for the launch of Sarah Kerr’s brilliant new book on wealth inequality at LSE Next Wednesday evening. Do sign up!

www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Wealth, poverty and enduring inequality: let's talk wealtherty

Public event at LSE | Sarah Kerr, Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar, Frank Soodeen | Weds 19 February, 6.00 to 7.30pm

www.lse.ac.uk

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