Mudde is correct, of course. One thing I find interesting about this though is how it varies by discipline. Iβve rarely heard the manel concern in soc, but we do have a whanel concern: not just white people on a panel committee.
There indeed is so much to fight for, and in some countries (looking at you, US), some old fights have become new fights.
One thing (academic) men can do is not participate in manels! It can be uncomfortable at times but it is also still necessary. Hereβs my experience: π§΅
All the AI boosters saying LLMs are uniquely positioned to help with academic research never went to their library orientations at university.
90% of what they praise AI as being able to do with wide eyed wonder are things jstor, Scopus and LexisNexis etc have been doing for decades already.
Every post I see about AI makes me think of this video from @eleanormorton.bsky.social "I don't think AI is useful for that company. Well, you'd be right! But we're doing it anyway." www.youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
it was a great pleasure and I am thrilled that the book is published so soon!
Amazing!! Looking very much forward to the publication. Congratulations!
never been as scared about the future as I am now, wish more people would think critically about AI and its various consequences (for democracy, work, mental health, environment, integrity, peace, equality, etc.)
β’ Sociology of LGBTQ+ Rights in Times of Crisis This panel invites sociological scholarship examining how LGBTQ+ rights are shaped by, and respond to, contemporary crises. From rising authoritarianism and humanitarian crises due to wars and genocides to climate emergencies, crises fundamentally reshape the terrain on which LGBTQ+ rights are envisioned, enacted, and contested. This panel seeks papers (or extended abstracts) that analyze the complex relationship between crisis and LGBTQ+ experiences, communities, and mobilizations. What discourses, strategies, and technologies of "human rights" do LGBTQ+ as well as anti-LGBTQ+ movements deploy under conditions of crisis? How do LGBTQ+ communities, at the intersection of other minoritized communities, become targets of political scapegoating during periods of multiple crises? How do crises exacerbate existing vulnerabilities while potentially opening spaces for mobilization, coalition, and more? The panel is open to highlighting diverse political and cultural contexts as well as theoretical and methodological approaches.
Global Queer/Trans Movements This panel examines contemporary queer and trans movements across diverse global contexts, analyzing how activists mobilize for rights, recognition, and belonging amid an intensifying global wave of anti-LGBTQ backlash. As LGBTQ rights become increasingly contested in political and cultural discourse worldwide (particularly with the rise of illiberal and authoritarian regimes), this panel explores the discourses, strategies, and coalitions that queer and trans movements deploy to resist state homophobia and transphobia, repressive legislation, and anti-LGBTQ mobilization. How do queer and trans movements organize and build coalitions in times of backlash and scapegoating? How do intersections of gender, class, race, and empire become central or marginalized in movement formations? What roles do transnational networks (including global funding flows, transnational advocacy networks, and anti-rights mobilization) play in these processes? How do movement strategies and meanings vary across geographic contexts, and how are they connected to one another? This panel welcomes papers and extended abstracts that advance critical understanding of how queer and trans movements navigate increasingly hostile political climates across different parts of the world.
If youβre working on LGBTQ+ movements or rights and thinking about ASA submissions tonight, Iβm organizing two connected panels on queer/trans movements and LGBTQ+ rights in times of crisis and backlash. Submissions are due tonight at 9PM (EST). Thanks for considering!
Iβm honoured to be giving the Neudstadt Lecture in Leicester tonight. Iβll be talking about: How wives helped to shape the foundations for knowledge about society
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Congratulations! π
Online book launch if our edited collection - please register - speakers address WPR and decolonising policy analysis, material objects as policy, and extending WPR spatially
@lizziereed.bsky.social this
Today is the third anniversary of the publication of our book. At a time when imperial powers are grappling with their limits the concepts of this book cant be limited to #internationaldevelopment. White saviorism exists across multiple factions and elements of our world.
Buy here shorturl.at/UPN7C
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WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025
Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant KarolΓna AugustovΓ‘, poet Tawona SitholΓ©.
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Scotland folk!
Join me for the launch of my book OCCUPIED REFUGE on Friday, 6 March 2026, 4-6pm at University of Glasgow.
To order the book in the UK & Europe: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313... (Discount code: E26BRNKM)
Itβs a free, in-person event and everyone is welcome! You can sign up below:
Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year β and where hope lies today
A Conversations series event @thesociologicalreview.org with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, @anilsghost.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me.
28 Jan. 1-2pm GMT Online
Join us!
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Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK
Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPaddaππ#ResponsibleAI
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28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie.
ποΈ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
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Online 1-2pm
β‘οΈ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx
Save the date for the 13th event of our INTERACT conversations:
(Not) everyone welcome? Insights from social psychology on selective solidarity with refugees
w/Tijana KariΔ @unimarburg.bsky.social & Jannis Grimm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/convers...
CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
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A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance':
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...
I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. Itβs great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.
its a great piece!!
The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 1 with contributions from Yasmin Gunaratnam Esperança Bielsa Rin Ushiyama Nathan Manning Jacob Lypp Emma Dowling Sara Eldén Zuzana Uhde Kate Reed and Anna Balazs Gareth M. Thomas Giulia Giorgi Emma Jackson and Agata Lisiak https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/1
OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
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very impressive!! thank you for sharing!
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
βBoth are essential reading for anyone interested in social justice, activism & the challenges of bringing about meaningful social change.β
@silkeroth.bsky.social reviews @mperezbrower.bsky.social & @drashleec.bsky.social
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daumen sind gedrΓΌckt
"[O]ur institutions have become toxic, performative, and mechanistic .... To subsist and survive, too many of us respond by concealing, isolating, and pushing ourselves to breaking points" (Kenworthy et al., 2025)
#HigherEd
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Tenure track juniorprofessorship in education and communication of material culture, Oldenburg University
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