Shannon Kneis
@shannonkneis.bsky.social
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Senior Commissioning Editor for Sociology at Polity Press (from Jan 2026)
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Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/
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Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
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💡Got a proposal? WOTM is open for submissions!

Find out more on the series page on the MUP website or contact one of our commissioning editors:
@shannonkneis.bsky.social👋@historicalmeredith.bsky.social👋
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Save the date!!!! 📢

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies, and Mad Studies.

One-day hybrid symposium for researchers and community members.

11th June 9.30 - 4.30

Centenary Building, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ. And online!

#MadCrip2025 #AutRes
Poster for 

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies, and Mad Studies.

One-day hybrid symposium for researchers and community members.

11th June 9 30 - 4 30

Centenary Building, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ. And online!

Save the date: 11th June
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What a line up! Rachel Rosen, Eve Dickson and Gwyneth Lonergan will discuss their new books on bordering and motherhood. Response by Umut Erel, chaired by Nando Sigona. Thurs 5 June 5 pm (UK)Sign up: ssahe.net/2025/04/25/m... @manchesterup.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Social media is flooded with images of the perfect housewife and 'cleanfluencers'.

In her new book, The return of the housewife, @emmahcasey.bsky.social asks why women are still cleaning up.

Upcoming events in #Leeds (8/5) & #Durham (14/5): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/ #booksky
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Join our author @mgloriapolimeno.bsky.social at @soasuni.bsky.social for the launch of Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism!

Maria's book explores the struggle of political authorities to gain legitimacy in Egypt after the 2013 coup.

📆13th May
⏰5:30pm
📍Khalili Lecture Theatre
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Celebrations in order - congratulations to Billy Holzberg's 'Affective Bordering' winning this year's Philip Abrams Prize at the @britsoci.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Tonight! Come and join us for a post-day1-conference-social + test whether you know your Bauman from Bourdieu 🤓
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Looking for something to do in Manchester this evening after #BSA2025?

We're co-hosting a free pub quiz alongside The Sociological Review, UoM & MMU🍻

⏰7:30pm
📍The Salutation Arms
🏆 Books, choc & other prizes up for grabs

Conference attendees, students & sociology enthusiasts welcome!
Pub quiz promotional image. Text reads: Weds 23 April 7:30pm, post-BSA conference, The Salutation Arms, Manchester M15 6ED
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Born #OnThisDay in 1940, Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, and who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa.

Discover her story in 'Wildly different' by @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social, out now!
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🔓A selection of social sciences titles are now available #OpenAccess!

An ethnographic study of breast cancer experiences in Western Europe, powerful new research on human disappearances, and the latest addition to our Racism, Resistance and Social Change series.

#10YearsofOA📖
New Open Access titles from Manchester University Press. Rainbow banner covers the top third of the image, text on banner reads: celebrating 10 years of Open Access at MUP, new social sciences titles. Manchester University Press logo in top right corner. The covers of three books sit in the centre of the image.
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📢Our Racism, Resistance and Social change series publishes the most challenging scholarship on race, racism and ethnic relations - mapping their shifting forms in the contemporary age and recognising anti-racism as an intellectual and social movement.

Find out about our Spring titles below!👇
Promotional image featuring three new titles in the Racism, Resistance and Social Change book series from Manchester University Press. Red background. Background image is a photograph of protestors raising their fists in solidarity. Book covers from left-right: Spirits of extraction, Islamophobia, antiracism and the British left, and The ethics of researching the far right.
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Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of @britsoci.bsky.social. Link to the full issue 👉🏽 www.britsoc.co.uk/publications... @manchesterup.bsky.social #class #workers
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We are proud to celebrate @lgbthm.bsky.social and our queer history titles across our trade and academic list.

You can get 25% off all the books in our reading list by using code LGBT25 at checkout. Discount code is valid 1st until 28th February 2025: buff.ly/40uG900
#lgbthm #lgbtreads #booksky
LGBT+ History Month 2025 - Manchester University Press
LGBT+ History Month welcomes everyone, regardless of your professional background—be it in education, museums, libraries, art galleries, businesses, services, or as a member of a network, social group...
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📖Now available #OpenAccess🧡

Digital Ecologies explores how livestreams, mobiles, social media and new software are reconfiguring our lives in profound ways.

🤖Find out more and access the FREE eBook: tinyurl.com/5e5hbms5
Banner image displaying the book cover for Digital ecologies: mediating more-than-human words. Description text reads: Draws together leading scholars to examine how digital media are reshaping the future of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics. Open Access logo. Manchester University Press logo.
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After much haranguing from me, @adriennebuller.bsky.social — the host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social and author of this book that y'all should read — is finally on Bluesky!

You should follow both if you're interested in how capitalism has shaped, and is being reshaped, by climate change.
Hand holding book by Adrienne Buller called The Value of a Whale, with a blue whale on the cover.
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Attending #AAA2024Tampa this week?
Our Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography series is open for proposals! Find out more in our #ACPE spotlight over on the blog⬇️

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PLUS, get 30% off our #Anthropology & #Sociology titles.
AAA 2024: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography and 30% off our titles - Manchester University Press
Find out about our Anthropology, Ethnography and Creative Practice series and get 30% off our titles for AAA 2024!
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