New issue of Sociological Research Online journal is now out! The June issue has articles on neighbourliness in residential compounds, cultural omnivorousness, oppositions to performative politics, and more. Read the full issue below. journals.sagepub.com/toc/SRO/30/2

c.org/jLYD9TMpTP solidarity with the amazing colleagues at Exeter uni, stop the redundancies

How do second-generation British Turks negotiate identity and belonging? @ozgeonay.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social on the concept of “floating habitus”, racialisation and the feeling of being caught between two worlds. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/NZVEdox

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This one means a lot to me. My article, 'Home but not quite': Islamophobia and gurbetçi identity in the 'floating habitus' of British Turks', is out today in The @thesociologicalreview.org Review Foundation, fully open access.

OMG I’ve just tried to turn a page in a physical book by tapping it.

Starmer said Israel has the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza. Now he's lecturing on who is and isn't fit to lead a party? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last chance to submit an abstract for the 22 June 2026 BSA New Materialisms one-day conference 'Matter, Rhizomes and More-than-Human Sociology'. Submissions close on Fri 1 May. We welcome contributions that engage with the conference themes. See flyer for how to submit abstract and/or register.

My first blog for my favourite website: Impunity Has a Carbon Footprint criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/27/i...

Our Y10-13 school photography competition is open to entries! Win £100 for yourself, £100 for your school and an invite to visit @cam.ac.uk 🏆 ➡️ This year's theme: take an original photo that tells a story about (in)tolerance ➡️ Deadline: 8 May 2026 🔗 Enter: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/photo-compet...

The racialisation of the working class has always been core to reactionary politics E.g. mainstream elites were quick to blame/praise the white WC for both Trump & Brexit despite data providing a different picture @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨ From silent histories to powerful voices ✨ This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore books that shape our understanding and amplify Black experiences. Titles include 'Sweet Home Feliciana' and a forthcoming Cambridge Companion celebrating composer Florence B. Price. Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/3OwRf2A

VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on... 1. 'race' & anti-racism 2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class) £42-58k, apply by 3 March. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...

Tomorrow! Join us for our first Lent Term seminar, with @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social as our guest speaker, talking on her book 'Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century'. Location 📍: Sociology Seminar Room Time ⏰: Tuesday 17 February, 12:30 - 2pm

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

I’m really happy to see this open-access article finally out doi.org/10.1111/anti... It explores ‘varieties of racial capitalism’ through the experiences of Black and Muslim Italians who moved to Britain during the 2010s and sometimes returned to Italy (or moved elsewhere) 1/5

#ERSNew 🐣 Who truly shapes a city? New research on immigrant Muslim women in Helsinki shows their powerful place-making through faith & community. They're not just visible, they're actively producing the urban space. Check out this new study: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

⚧️ A networking event for Cambridge scholars who study gender and sexuality, featuring speed networking sessions and informal discussions to help build connections and explore potential collaborations 30 Jan from 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4j51yGj

"Our method shows that we can recover it from everyday waste and reuse it directly.” Leverhulme Research Project Grantee Dr Erli Lu @unibirmingham.bsky.social on turning a disposal problem into a resource opportunity, working along with scientists @sciencesncl.bsky.social. 👉 tinyurl.com/3sw7zza5

#ERSNew 🐣 Mehmetali Kasim argues that China’s #Xinjiang policies use birth suppression, child separation & cultural assimilation to dismantle #Uyghur continuity, echoing genocidal patterns. Check out this study here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

As the convenors @aykutozturk.bsky.social we are happy to share the Autumn 2025 program for the PSA Turkish Politics Online Workshops (TPOWs) @psaturkish.bsky.social The registration information for the TPOWs will be here soon. psaturkishpolitics.uk

“This is my home. I'm raising my three-year-old, I'm looking for a school for her, and now I'm more worried because she's obviously my skin colour, and I'm worried about her safety. I'm worried about my safety." Nish, Youth Organiser at Praxis www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The world is hot — and only getting hotter. Here's what places around the globe are doing to keep cool, from repainting surfaces and installing outdoor showers to planting trees and going underground. nyti.ms/46CXyqn

Sheffield Hallam management: There's no money, we're going to have to axe hundreds of staff. Also, Sheffield Hallam management: We're spending £140m on a new campus. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 This article explores how Palestinian university students in the West Bank narrated the precarity of life under Israeli occupation. Article by Aisha Phoenix: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2552386

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 This paper explores what happened after police were “removed” from Manchester’s schools—and why it wasn’t what it seemed. Article by Remi Joseph-Salisbury: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2552383

Claire Blencowe’s Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race explores how the revivalist evangelical movements of the 19th century bound to the biopolitical economy of race. Review by: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2557437

Full article: Mining the Margins: Racial Capitalism and the Dispossession of Türkiye’s Ethnic Minorities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 FINAL CALL FOR RESPONDENTS Please see below for a research opportunity exploring the career experiences of Black, Asian & minority ethnic prison educators. 🗓 Interviews running throughout June 💰 £30 voucher for participants Please share this with your networks 🙏

Images from the solidarity march in London in response to the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu

Resistance for democracy in #Turkey… #Manchester

'But what matters now is not a question of profitability, not a question of increased productivity, not a question of production rates. No, it is not a question of back to nature. It is the very question of not dragging a man in directions which mutilate him-

Istanbul.

🫣🍾❤️ #islamophobia

www.lboro.ac.uk/internal/new... A fantastic opening of the Five Pillars: Lived Experiences, New Futures exhibition @lborouniversity.bsky.social The exhibition is free and open to all, 10 March - 3 April 2025.

Growing Up Godless is now available for preorder, and there's a chunky discount if you use code P327 when ordering from press.princeton.edu And do get in touch if you'd like me to come and give a talk about the book! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @princetonupress.bsky.social

NEW: Research Staff Manifesto 👇 New data confirms 65% of research staff are on fixed-term contracts 🚨 It is scandalous that most of the staff who actually do the work behind the UK's world-leading research output are denied secure jobs 🗣️ @drjogrady.bsky.social

My book is almost here 📍🧿📝

In political sociology I used to compel students to critically think. It wasn't enough to say that 'capitalists had power' I told them, 'you could think of the ways they exercise power, there's the Miliband-Poulantzas debate, and don't forget Weber and status'. Musk ruined my ability to teach.

📣 Social Identity Summer School at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - Submission deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025 #socialpsychology #socialisentity #leuven #summerschool www.kuleuven.be/english/summ...

The government could have finally brought Royal Mail into public ownership. It sold it to a Czech billionaire instead. We are being ripped off. It’s time to put Royal Mail back where it belongs: in public hands. bbc.in/49BZTmP

“long-term parking”, #armandpierrefernandez (1982) ‘nouveau réalism’