The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖 on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...

Hi Bluesky, The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now. a.co/d/a0qeZeh I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

"Using Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, it thus contends that care ethics risks treating care as a fetish, obscuring the systemic inequalities and inherent contradictions embedded in caregiving." doi.org/10.1177/1464...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

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Hvilke lederoppgaver kreves for å opprettholde lederløse og horisontale bevegelser, og hvem forventes å gjøre disse oppgavene? Jeg har blitt intervjuet av Kilden Kjønnsforskning om en nylig publisert artikkel basert på mitt doktorgradsprosjekt.

“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.” @michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

"Ce serait diffamer Jean-Marie Le Pen que de ne pas le traiter de tortionnaire" (P. Vidal-Naquet). Aux racines coloniales du lepénisme. Le dossier complet rassemblé et contextualisé pour la première fois. En Algérie chez Barzakh, en France au Passager clandestin (2024).

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Me, facing the academic job market

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

If you've asked and still not fund yourself on this starter pack, please let me know because I think there may be some bug with the servers go.bsky.app/V9URRDU ,🧪🌍🇬🇱🇮🇸🇫🇴🇸🇯🇩🇰🇸🇪🇦🇽🇫🇮

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

Seeing the new inflow from the other place I made a small starter pack of some people working on gender &/OR sexuality, biased towards Sociology. Let me know if you or anyone else should be on it!

Very stoked to see the first article from my PhD project out open access in Gender & Society. Based on fieldwork in the Yellow vest movement, I explore the critical leadership work that is demanded to uphold so-called horizontal social movements. 1/2

Very stoked to see the first article from my PhD project out open access in Gender & Society. Based on fieldwork in the Yellow vest movement, I explore the critical leadership work that is demanded to uphold so-called horizontal social movements. 1/2

DIVE IN! Professor Bev Skeggs’s archive is online. Explore the work of the renowned sociologist, feminist & campaigner against #inequalities, and former editor of The Sociological Review & former chief executive of our Foundation. Includes research by theme and teaching resources. bevskeggs.com

Angelo Reira endelig ute med nytt album. Jeg anmelder det i ukas Morgenbladet www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/musik...

Vi har en lang vei å gå i kampen mot vold mot kvinner, slik min eminente veileder Margunn Bjørnholt viser i ny artikkel. God kampdag!

Anbefaler to låter og en EP for å oppsummere 2023 i Morgenbladet www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/2023/...

Hør! Hiphop er 50 år i år. Dette feirer jeg hver dag. Veldig gøy å få snakke om sjangerens utvikling sammen med Thomas Seltzer og Tommy Tee på Trygdekontoret: radio.nrk.no/podkast/tryg...

Jeg skriver om musikk i dagens Morgenbladet.

Using Facebook data and a mixed-method approach, Davide Morselli, Maite Beramendi, Zakaria Bendali, and Olivier Fillieule investigate changes in collective identities using online discussions of a local branch of the Gilets Jaunes movement. meridian.allenpress.com/mobilization...

In a recent issue of the @sociologicalreview.bsky.social magazine, dedicated to the topic of strikes and care, I wrote about the changing claims-making in the Gilets Jaunes movement. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/aug...

Just a reminder that if you're interested in radical history, I have compiled this list of over 500 *online* & *open access* collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents from around the world. hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...