The Lowry, Salford
10–12 September 2024
The Sociological Review Foundation’s Undisciplining II conference took place from 10 to 12 September 2024 in Salford, England. Academics and educators, artists and activists, and thinkers and doers across many fields came together to ask: “Who is sociology for?”
The Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year prize for 2023 will be shared by two teams of authors: Cosmin Popan, David Perez and Jamie Woodcock; and Andrés Felipe Castro Torres and Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazquez. Their achievement will be celebrated in an online event on 5 December, where members of the jury and co-authors of the two papers will discuss their work.
Seeing our world afresh through the eyes of sociologists, Uncommon Sense questions taken-for-granted ideas about society. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, and featuring a different guest each episode, this monthly podcast insists that sociology is for everyone.
A festschrift in honour of the eminent sociologist Bridget Fowler has been published as the latest volume in the long-running Sociological Review monograph series.
Dr Brenda Herbert has been named The Sociological Review Fellow for 2024–25. A psychodynamic counsellor who has served in the public and charity sectors for two decades, she works with children and families who have experienced domestic abuse.
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an urgent issue. It exemplifies matters of power, inequality, and the destruction of social worlds.
Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.
“Zine-making offers a way to research with, rather than on, students, encouraging them to express themselves creatively,” says educational anthropologist and sociological researcher Vera Spangler, our Image-Maker in Residence for September.
Two pages from a zine made by Alice, an international student in Denmark, originally from Ireland.
Copyright 2024 Vera Spangler. All rights reserved.
We are repeatedly told that democratic systems are in place to serve us, but as increasing numbers retreat from them, where do they go next? The notion of being ungovernable as a political act is at the forefront of H.L.T. Quan’s Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living.
The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this six-episode podcast series, they explore how wives helped to shape classic works that set foundations for how modern sociology was thought of and carried out including investigations of communities, class and family life.
Spatial Delight is a ten-part podcast about space, society and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from a contested waterfront in Kochi to the Egyptian desert, this series seeks to inspire listeners to think about space and place as full of power, and to imagine political alternatives to the current world order. Presented, written and produced by Dr Agata Lisiak, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and hosted by The Sociological Review.
The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is a project of The Sociological Review. It is an educational platform that provides open-access resources for students, teachers and academics who are interested in decolonising school, college and university curricula.
Sociologist Imogen Tyler meets inspirational activists, academics and frontline workers to talk about stigma – how it’s created, how it divides us, who it serves and how we might resist. Intimate and urgent conversations on poverty and power, racism and resistance, solidarity and hope. From one of the UK’s leading activist scholars.
Discover Society is a free online magazine of social research, analysis, and commentary.
Edited by John Holmwood, Discover Society’s first issue of 2024 remembers Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), the Indian historian, scholar and founding spirit of subaltern studies who led a long life of political engagement and scholarly reflection. Contributors: Alice Corble, Adi Cooper, Sanjay Seth, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Maya Unnithan, Jane Cowan and Moushumi Bhowmik.
In Politics After the Pandemic, anthropologist Erica Lagalisse looks transnationally at cultural changes in the wake of the pandemic, its impact on capitalism and other structures of oppression, and considers how social movements, educators and researchers are responding. In a three-part mini-series, she speaks with Elżbieta Drążkiewicz about “conspiracy theory” as social critique.
