"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Det er ikke «apolitisk» å investere i selskaper som er uetiske. Det eneste «apolitiske» man kan gjøre er å ha etiske retningslinjer (uavhengig av strenghet) som man håndhever likt helt uavhengig av hvilke selskaper som bryter dem.

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%. And the gap is growing. Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.

📣 Submit your abstract for the British Journal of Sociology Conference by Monday 20 October. There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology. Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

The children are always ours, every single one of them

New book hitting the shelves today "Climate & Class: How to Keep the Climate Fight from Becoming a Culture War", with @chellersgaard.bsky.social and Andreas Mulvad.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

This is a fantastic project. So well deserved!

The International Association of Genocide Scholars has passed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. Read the resolution here genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? | Sindre Bangstad

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Following an exchange with @marcoalbertini.bsky.social on the @isa-rc28.bsky.social letter to the @isa-sociology.org exec committee, I’m reposting my position on requests to review for the Israel Science Foundation.

It is also very problematic to read statements saying that the ISS suspension has “real” personal & professional consequences for our colleagues, while Palestinian sociologists and academics (many murdered, suffering from starvation, with universities demolished) are ignored, not even mentioned [4]

Free Palestine.

Israeli army has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking aid since late May - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-has-killed-more-1000-palestinians-seeking-aid-late-may

“Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die” - AFP. International media is barred from entering Gaza by Israel. The only ones who have borne witness are local reporters, 185 of whom are now dead. The last remaining, like all Gazans, are being systematically starved.

🔥🔥"Very few of the economic elite have a background in the humanities or social sciences. This is most common in the UK and Switzerland, with around 20 per cent. Johs Hjellbrekke U. Bergen @marentoft.bsky.social and PhD student Marte Lund Saga at the U. of Oslo" www.forskning.no/sosiologi-ok...

Til alle som lurer på hva de kan gjøre for å demme opp mot orbanifisering og trumpifisering her hjemme: Et lite, men viktig bidrag er å abonnere på Filter Nyheter.

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

Entire population

Revisiting this beauty in these dire and desperate times

Finally got my copy yesterday and jumped straight into it Brilliant book as expected and so necessary at a time when reactionaries aim to divide us, cosplaying as defenders of women's rights and the liberal centre conveniently laps it up Order yours here: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...

Excited to have signed a contract w/LSE Press (RGS-IBG Book Series):"Alienation and agency: Labour geographies in the age of failing climate mitigation". My book is on oil workers but I will argue that alienation is a useful term for human geography. What does a geography of alienation mean to you?

Formue blir stadig mer skjevfordelt og betydningen av klassebakgrunn for hvem det er som eier mest øker. Snakket med NRK om formuesulikhet og bl.a. arbeidene til @norawaitkus.bsky.social & @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social og min forskning med Hansen @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social www.nrk.no/norge/de-rik...

Important piece by the magnificent @martesaga.bsky.social and the first empirical publication of our WEB-project ✨ www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/... @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Thanks a lot to @simonkuper.bsky.social & the @financialtimes.com for this close reading of our research article on the economic elites of 16 countries, and for jump-starting the public discussion about it! The paper @bjsociology.bsky.social is avaisble here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pleased to see that Michael Burawoy's important article 'Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?' has been posthumously published by @sociologicalreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New👇post summarizes main arguments from our Sociology paper (w. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @marentoft.bsky.social): how different strands of #class analysis can be easily mobilized to study #wealth and #asset inequalities in its various forms & shapes.💰🏰💸 Original paper: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out. Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp. The world is watching. History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨 🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015 w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... A thread (1/10)

“We need a politics of class that puts these huge wealth divides front and centre – and challenges the justice of these wealth extremes” – @mikesavagelse.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

How incredibly tragic. Burawoy was a fantastic scholar and a wonderful professor.

Burawoy wrote this just last year on how sociologists must engage around Palestine: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“Denial of a wanted abortion…increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months…Tracking outcomes up to 15 years later… women denied an abortion experience more health issues, lower educational attainment, reduced labor-force participation, and higher rates of poverty.”

Welcome @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social & @evazschirnt.bsky.social, as new directors of our Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies 👏 Mark your agenda for the relaunch on 10 April with @norawaitkus.bsky.social, @mikesavagelse.bsky.social & @marentoft.bsky.social on wealth inequality & class analysis

Excited about today's classes and elites research seminar with @mikesavagelse.bsky.social ! All welcome (but physical attendance only) www.sv.uio.no/iss/forsknin...

New Paper! In @mcsjournal.bsky.social Peter Campbell @markrt.bsky.social Danny Leigh & I analyse the impact of class on BFI funding, showing 'the dominance of those from middle class origins throughout each stage of funding' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (summary 🧵 coming when I get time!)

Workers were never well-represented among cabinet ministers globally, but things have deteriorated over time. From our Paths to Power project where we have collected biographical data on almost 45,000 ministers from 137 countries in the period 1966-2021.

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza on Christmas Eve. Israel has been killing Palestinians every day for more than a year. Every day, Palestinians in Gaza face new and unimaginable horrors and massacres. The U.S. supports, funds, and is complicit in this genocide.

🚨 Last call! 🚨 PhD course on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in Oslo, 13–16 January 2025. Learn this fascinating technique for structural & relational analysis. No prior knowledge required! 🧑‍🎓 🗓️ Application deadline: Monday 👉 Please repost to spread the word!