Giulia Carabelli

#ClimateActionWeek2026 continues at SSE today with the gardening club. Open to beginners & the plant-curious, the Gardening Club is a student- and staff-led initiative that reclaims unused space to grow flowers and herbs, and host plant-related workshops. More info 👇️
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🩷🌱🩷 bring more plants into your life

Empires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in Jamaica The second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making

I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴

Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...

ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups (FG12)

Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition (FG12)

Deadline: 5pm GMT (6pm CET), Friday 13th March 2026

Offering flexible support for a period of (up to) one year for the activities of a small research group.

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Apply Now! Our 8th Mid-Career Fellowship competition aims to support independent-minded researchers to explore & present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems.

#SocialScience #Humanities #Arts

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EcoMythology online winter symposium, Jan 17-18, 2026. From Nordic Summer University. "learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood or your life." 40/70/100€. Register by Jan 11, 2026. woodwidewebstories.com/2025/12/06/e...

Open access article by @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination "...making intentional space for plants in our life can cultivate a different sensibility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱

Can’t wait to read this @sarahelton.bsky.social !

Out now! This paper discusses home-making practices with houseplants during the Civid-19 pandemic … when my current project ‘Care for plants’ started! The article is open access and part of fantastic collection of essays on place making with plants 🌱 if you read it, let me know what you think 💭!

“It’s a marathon and things take time. This was important for me in the pandemic where everything felt so urgent.” – Ava, houseplant carer

@giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on how plants can alter our relationship to time.

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St Andrews rector stripped of powers over Gaza row wins appeal Stella Maris will resume her role as head of the university’s governing body after a successful appeal against the institution.

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid.

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🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸

Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

"academia talks collaboration but builds systems (promotion, funding, community recognition) that often undervalue diversity, whether that’s diversity of discipline, publication type, or research approach"

How does caring for houseplants reshape the habits and rhythms of everyday life?

@giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on human-plant relationships, forms of attentiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Inside the Notebook'. The papers are: 1) Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham & Tatiana Thieme 2) Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago Soledad Martinez 3) Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin square Julia Dzun 4) Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival Eveleigh Buck-Matthews 5) Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London Nathaniel Telemaque 6) Voice notes in the car: Capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees Charishma Ratnam 7) Fieldnotes as never really 'raw' data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank Alasdair Jones 8) The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood Tatiana Thieme 9) Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park Jack Layton

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Training young co-researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews Catherine Walker & Ellen von Holstein 2) Feminist visualisation challenges: Methodological innovation, opportunities, and lessons learned Kate Coddington & Jill Williams 3) Pedals and throttles: Ride-along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cycle and motorbike taxi drivers Sarah Turner & Binh Nguyen 4) (Pragmatist) geographies of rankings Gerhard Rainer 5) Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training Jonathan Harris 6) Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies Franziska Paul

📢March Issue of Area📢

The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers.

11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️
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the article is published in @thesociologicalreview.org and it's open access! If you read and have comments, get in touch! 💚🪴

a potted plant with a face painted on it ALT: a potted plant with a face painted on it

What’s in a houseplant craze? Dawn Lyon and I wrote about how human-plant relations nurtured during lockdown unexpectedly reshaped people’s experiences of temporality and rhythm in everyday life.

Our Folklore Reimagined season begins. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Ronald Hutton FBA delves into England's witch trials and Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. Watch the full video on YouTube: buff.ly/4W0OR4p

As our Folklore Reimagined season continues, Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar explores the postmillennial wave of djinn-themed horror in Turkish cinema –where Anatolian folklore, Turkic shamanism, and Islamic mythology collide in stories of black magic and demonic possession. buff.ly/OOZJk0E

Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the US Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press). This event is open to all.

So excited for @stoffelalex.bsky.social 's book launch for Eros and Empire. Sign up below!

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What’s left of the bourgeois family? On family abolition rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

The call to abolish the family is back, sparking fierce debate on the left. As capitalism reshapes how we live and relate, Alex Stoffel asks if breaking free from the family’s grip can open the door to true liberation.
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Base Women and Beyond: a new project revives and extends feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations A collaboration led by Centre for Gender in Politics director, Dr Deiana and Dr Catherine Eschle, University of Strathclyde

Find out about our new project, Base Women and Beyond. Inspired by Cynthia Enloe's pathbreaking work, we seek to revive and extend feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations #AcademySky #PoliSky #IRSky #FeministSky centreforgender.substack.com/p/base-women...

The recording of our “Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Thru Zines” event is up! Check it out for some fascinating and inspiring discussion! geoz.one/blog/storyte... #geosky @lbnaylor.bsky.social @jaredmargulies.bsky.social

This is happening tomorrow! Check out the poster with info & Zoom link below!

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Meet the panelists for our upcoming "Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Through Zines" event (12/2 at 4pm Eastern)! Anne Pasek is a zine-maker who works on decarbonizing the uni and the internet! Register for free at bit.ly/4f40aRm @apasek.bsky.social #geosky

IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect.

Due Date: 31 December 2024 (abstracts: 10 December 2024).
100-1500 words. Published 20 January 2025.

Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or some minor variation thereof) in its essay title.