My article on the tv hit Succession and its media reception finally out. Keywords Schadenfreude, fantasy, dynasties. My argument being that it is a fantasy-driven construct appealing to a middle class desire to see the rich as miserable people destined to fall. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out now 🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sheffielduni.bsky.social While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵

Another excellent article on families and wealth, this time by @cassandracotton.bsky.social and Raphaël Charron-Chénier!

Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.

Highly recommend this fantastic article from @shayobrien.bsky.social!

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time? I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

It was brilliant to present at the Institute of Sociology @tuberlin.bsky.social and to learn more about the important research happening there -thanks for the invitation @isabellstamm.bsky.social!

In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years. 📆 Wednesday 19 March ⏰ 6.30pm to 8pm 📍 In person at LSE and online

Another plug for my new @bjsociology.bsky.social article with Narzanin Massoumi examining the appointment of corporate elites to the boards of charities. No paywall btw! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

Going to plan a few trips to West Yorkshire this year bradford2025.co.uk/whats-on/

UK's regressive tax system. Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%. Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%. Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%. No govt plans to end inequity. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...

#16 in the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social critical theory Xmas countdown is one of the books of the year. @aaronreeves.bsky.social discussing “Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite” coauthored with @samfriedman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/born-to-rule

Save the date for our Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture! Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years. 📆 Wednesday 19 March

This is a really interesting and important piece of work

Very excited to share the details for the 2025 @bjsociology.bsky.social Annual Lecture, featuring Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams." 19 March, 6:30pm, at the LSE. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Calling everyone concerned with ‘elite takeover’ driven by excessive concentrations of wealth: don’t miss this LSE event next Wednesday evening!

A blog on our new article 'City fortunes: The sources of wealth and international homeownership of the world’s urban wealth elite' by Rowland Atkinson, Jonathan Bourne and me - link here: speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog/2024/ci...