Our Annual Lecture 2018 took place at the Undisciplining conference, with Professor Satnam Virdee (University of Glasgow) and with responses from Dr Sivamohan Valluvan (University of Warwick) and Professor Bev Skeggs (London School of Economics and Political Science). Undergirded by the perspective of historical materialism in dialogue with black Marxism and Marxist feminism, this lecture constructs an account demonstrating the significance of racism to the making of modernity. The analytic returns of unthinking Eurocentric sociologies in favour of a more unified historical social scientific a ..read more

In October 2019, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, gave the Sociological Review Annual Lecture in London. This marked twenty years since the publication of her book Decolonizing Methodologies. This pathbreaking volume presented a significant challenge to the ways in which imperialism was embedded in the production of knowledge through social science research. For this podcast, Michaela Benson (Managing Editor, The Sociological Review) was joined by Sara Salem, editorial board member at The Sociological Review, and Assistant Profes ..read more

In this episode our Managing Editor, Michaela Benson talks to Jenny Reardon (University of California. Santa Cruz) about her ongoing research which has involved riding through the wide, open grasslands and cow towns of Kansas. As she explains, this is a project that was designed to develop embodied knowledge of the land and to find out more about attitudes towards contemporary US politics from the denizens of the prairies. By talking about how to know and care for the land with her interlocutors, she uncovers, layer by layer the interlocking effects of globalisation, financialisation and envir ..read more

What should anti-racist solidarity within and beyond the university look like? In this episode,Chantelle Lewis, editorial manager at the Sociological Review, Adam Elliott-Cooper (Kings College London) and Remi Joseph-Salisbury (University of Manchester) discuss the challenges of doing anti-racist work within and beyond the university. They talk about how to build solidarities that weave together understandings of inter-personal and institutional racisms, while also attending to the anti-racist struggles ongoing internationally. And within this, they call for understandings of racism centred on ..read more

In this episode, our managing editor Michaela Benson talks with Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University) about her recent work on the sociology of stigma. In keeping with the theme of the conference, Imogen advocates an approach that recognises that sociological knowledge might be produced from outside rigid disciplinary boundaries; as she describes the political urgency of a renewed genealogy of stigma that takes seriously its relationship to racism, she traces how this knowledge and understanding was excluded from the curriculum of US sociology. Retelling the history of stigma from penal tattooin ..read more

In this episode, Imogen Tyler, editor of The Sociology of Stigma, talks with Jenna Loyd (University of Wisconsin, Madison) about the neglect of grounded histories of racial segregation, displacement in the conceptual framework of territorial stigmatisation. Thinking with her empirical research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jenna argues that race, racism and racialisation need to take centerstage to ask questions about how racism and racial capitalism occur in particular places, produced through histories of urban planning and development, local and national political contexts. To find out more abou ..read more

This episode brings Chantelle Lewis, editorial manager for The Sociological Review, into conversation with Ronda Daniels and Steph Lacey. They talk about their experiences of being young working class women in Higher Education, of becoming aware of their class backgrounds in these spaces. Reflecting on their initial unease in entering and navigating these spaces, they discuss how these institutional spaces are made in the image of young middle-class students and how this disadvantages those from backgrounds where they have not been brought up to know the rules of the game. As they describe the ..read more

Akanksha Mehta, Grace Tillyard and comrades discuss what care looks like in a university strike ..read more

In this series of micro-podcasts, we ask accomplished sociologists about their working habits and the tips they have for early career researchers. Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths. He tweets at @academicdiary and you can read his Academic Diary at www.academic-diary.co.uk ..read more

In this podcast recorded prior to the Accelerated Academy in December 2015, editorial board member Maggie O’Neill discusses slow scholarship and the fast academy with our digital fellow Mark Carrigan. Maggie ran a seminar series at Durham University (http://discoversociety.org/2014/06/03/the-slow-university-work-time-and-well-being/) and edited a special section of Forum: Qualitative Social Research (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/50) on these issues ..read more