Podcasts about sociological review

Andreas Folkers über die Konzepte „Nachhaltigkeit“ und „Resilienz“ und die mit ihnen verbundenen gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse.   Shownotes Personal website: https://andreasfolkers.eu/ Distinguished fellow am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universität Erfurt: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/personen/vollmitglieder/fellows/andreas-folkers Mitglied des Kollegiums des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung (IfS): https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/persona-detalles/andreas-folkers.html Aktuelles Buchprojekt über die Fossile Moderne: https://andreasfolkers.eu/index.php/elementor-35/#project1 Folkers, A. (2022). Nach der Nachhaltigkeit: Resilienz und Revolte in der dritten Moderne. Leviathan, 50(2), 239–262. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/0340-0425-2022-2-239.pdf   Folkers, A. (2018). Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz: Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme. Campus Verlag. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/das_sicherheitsdispositiv_der_resilienz-14888.html?srsltid=AfmBOooGjxw_GU-9I7R61EerQGI1qZijDVeCc_JfoUhlaLkbRDN3YCKz zu „stranded assets“: Folkers, A. (2024). Calculative futures between climate and finance: A tragedy of multiple horizons. The Sociological Review.  https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241258832 zu Hans Carl von Carlowitz und dem Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit: https://www.bmel.de/DE/themen/wald/wald-in-deutschland/carlowitz-jahr.html Sächsische Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Gesellschaft e. V. (Ed.). (2013). Die Erfindung der Nachhaltigkeit: Leben, Werk und Wirkung des Hans Carl von Carlowitz. oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/die-erfindung-der-nachhaltigkeit-9783865814159 zu „Gouvernementalität“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouvernementalit%C3%A4t Zu „Kameralismus“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kameralismus zum Ausdruck „Zucht und Ordnung“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucht_und_Ordnung Doganova, L. (2024). Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781942130918/discounting-the-future?srsltid=AfmBOorTzdy_ERt2RO3FWcs_uZ5kIPf3oNdJGiBaAm0AXyqmxrdIcmaN Iannerhofer, I. (2016): Neomalthusianismus. In: Kolboske, B. et al. (Hrsg.): Wissen Macht Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. (open access) https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/media/proceedings/9/15/N%20Neomalthusianismus.pdf zu “peak oil”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96lf%C3%B6rdermaximum zur “Population Bomb“ (Buch und Debatte): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb zum „Limits to Growth“ Report des Club of Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth zum Konzept des „Maximum sustainable yield“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_sustainable_yield Sieferle, R. P. (2021). Der unterirdische Wald: Energiekrise und Industrielle Revolution. Manuscriptum Verlag. https://www.manuscriptum.de/der-unterirdische-wald.html zur “Tragedy of the Commons”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons zu “Sustainable Development”: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/what+is+sustainable+development%3F/623493.html zum “Our Common Future“ Bericht (auch “Brundtland-Bericht“ genannt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brundtland-Bericht zur „ökologischen Ökonomie“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kologische_%C3%96konomie zu Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgescu-Roegen Mahrdt, H. (2022). Arbeiten/Herstellen/Handeln. In: Heuer, W., Rosenmüller, S. (Hrsg.) Arendt-Handbuch. J.B. Metzler. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05837-9_71#citeas zu „Kreislaufwirtschaft“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreislaufwirtschaft zum „Neuen Materialismus“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuer_Materialismus zum „Metabolischen Riss“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rift zu „Erdsystemwissenschaft“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_system_science zu „CCS Technologien (Carbon Capture and Storage)”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2-Abscheidung_und_-Speicherung zu “Climate Tipping Points”: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/infodesk/tipping-elements/tipping-elements Saito, Kohei. 2023. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376 zu „CO2 Budgets”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_budget zur Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das Klimaschutzgesetz 2019: https://www.germanwatch.org/de/verfassungsbeschwerde Luhmann, N. (1994). Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/niklas-luhmann-die-wirtschaft-der-gesellschaft-t-9783518287521 Keynes, J.M. (2010). Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. In: Essays in Persuasion. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-59072-8_25#citeas zu “Keynesianismus”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus zu Crawford Stanley Holling und „Resilienz“: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-08-23-pioneering-the-science-of-surprise-.html zur „Gaia-Hypothese“ von Lynn Margulis und James Lovelock: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia-Hypothese Ghosh, A. (2021). The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html Buller, A. (2022). The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526162632/ Chakrabarty, D. (2022). Das Klima der Geschichte im planetarischen Zeitalter. Suhrkamp Verlag. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/dipesh-chakrabarty-das-klima-der-geschichte-im-planetarischen-zeitalter-t-9783518587799 Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism Malm, A., & Collective, T. Z. (2021). White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2520-white-skin-black-fuel Thematisch angrenzende Folgen S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/ S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress, and Left Imaginaries https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/ S03E27 | Andreas Gehrlach zur ursprünglichen Wohlstandsgesellschaft https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e27-andreas-gehrlach-zur-urspruenglichen-wohlstandsgesellschaft/ S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ S03E17 | Klaus Dörre zu Utopie, Nachhaltigkeit und einer Linken für das 21. Jh. https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e17-klaus-doerre-zu-utopie-nachhaltigkeit-und-einer-linken-fuer-das-21-jh/ S03E16 | Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer Ökologie https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e16-daniela-russ-zu-energie-wirtschaft-und-produktivistischer-oekologie/ S03E15 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung (Teil 2) https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e15-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung-teil-2/ S03E14 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e14-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung/ S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/ S03E05 | Marina Fischer-Kowalski zu gesellschaftlichem Stoffwechsel https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e05-marina-fischer-kowalski-zu-gesellschaftlichem-stoffwechsel/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on sociometabolic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/     Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories   Schreibt mir unter: office@futurehistories.today Diskutiert mit mir auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurehistories.bsky.social auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories   Webseite mit allen Folgen: www.futurehistories.today English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com   Episode Keywords #AndreasFolkers, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Klimakrise, #Ressourcen, #Klimakollaps, #Kapitalismus, #GesellschaftlicheNaturverhältnisse, #Zukunft, #Degrowth, #Knappheit, #Wirtschaft, #Wirtschaftswissenschaft, #Neoklassik, #Ökonomik, #AlternativeWirtschaft, #Nachhaltigkeit, #Resilienz, #PluraleÖkonomik, #HeterodoxeÖkonomik, #Commons, #Freiheit, #Emanzipation, #Planungsdebatte, #PostkapitalistischeProduktionsweise, #DemokratischePlanung, #NeuerMaterialismus, #Material-UndEnergieflussanalyse, #KommodifizierungDerNatur, #Material-Fluss-Analyse, #Stoffwechsel, #SozialerMetabolismus, #SoziometabolischePlanung, #Beziehungsweisen, #EnvironmentalesRegieren, #EnvironmentalGovernance, #Ökologisch-demokratischePlanung, #ÖkologischePlanung, #SozialÖkologischeRegime      

Reflecting the chaotic and fast-moving nature of the times, another podcast of two parts. In the first, looking at various issues of the week, from Trump's apparent threat to increase sanctions on Russia to a spy case in the UK.In the second half, I look at two recent books, Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin's Russia, edited by Helge Blakkisrud & Pål Kolstø (Edinburgh UP) and Jeremy Morris's Everyday Politics in Russia. From Resentment to Resistance, (Bloomsbury) and use them to spin off a discussion about legitimacy in modern Russia.The piece ‘Recycling to resist,' I mentioned by Alexandrina Vanke, is in the Sociological Review here.The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, counter-terrorism, civil affairs and similar situations.You can also follow my blog, In Moscow's Shadows, and become one of the podcast's supporting Patrons and gain question-asking rights and access to exclusive extra materials including the (almost-) weekly Govorit Moskva news briefing right here.  Support the show

Conspiracy Stories Show Notes:  Zeitgeist documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_(film_series) Podcast Drang naar Samenhang: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/drang-naar-samenhang/id1584797552 This is not a conspiracy theory documentary. https://www.everythingisaremix.info/tinact  Parker, M. (2000). Human Science as Conspiracy Theory. The Sociological Review, 48(2_suppl), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2000.tb03527.x Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., & Cichocka, A. (2017). The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(6), 538-542. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417718261 Tage-gate episode of More of a Comment than a Question:  https://moreofacomment.buzzsprout.com/1207223/episodes/5511751-tage-gate 

Send us a textWhat are the barriers to pursuing our spiritual yearnings in a disenchanted age? Dr. Galen Watts addresses this question in this final presentation from our international symposium held at McGill University in November 2024.Galen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on cultural and institutional change in liberal democracies, with particular attention to religion, morality, work, and politics. He is the author of The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022), which explores the shift from "religion" to "spirituality" and its social and political implications in the West. Currently, his work investigates the cultural dimensions of the "diploma divide," analyzing how symbolic boundaries and cultural practices shape distinctions between urban university-educated professionals and rural nonuniversity-educated workers in Canada and the U.S. Galen has published extensively in leading academic journals, including American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Civic Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, and The Sociological Review. He also writes for public audiences, bridging academic insights with broader cultural conversations.In his talk, Galen addresses the following themes:Why cosmic connection may be harder to achieve todayThe impact of cultural and institutional change on spiritual yearningThe decline of the humanities and the loss of deep formative experiencesThe "secular sacred canopy" and its barriers to transcendenceThe paradox of ethical progress alongside increasing spiritual disorientationCan modernity be reconciled with cosmic connection?To learn more about Dr. Watts, you can find him at:Website: https://www.galenwatts.com/Linked: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/galen-watts-a8877a212Book: The Spiritual Turn Buy hereThis episode is sponsored by:John Templeton Foundation (https://www.templeton.org/)Templeton Religion Trust (https://templetonreligiontrust.org/)Support the show

Ryan Service reads his poem, "Lux," and Alisha Goldblatt reads her poem, "Guarding the Body." Ryan Service is a full-time priest and sometime-poet based in the Midlands (UK). His work has been published in Theology, The Sociological Review, and other journals. He received a prize for his entry in the Jack Clemo poetry competition, and before training in Rome he read English at the University of Warwick. Alisha Goldblatt is an English teacher and writer living in Portland, Maine, with her two wonderful children and one lovely husband. She has published poems in the Common Ground Review, River Heron Review, Burningword Literary Journal, and others, and essays in Stonecoast Review, Wisconsin Review, and MothersAlwaysWrite. Alisha writes whenever she can and gets published when she's lucky. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

On today's show, we bring back one of our all-time favorite guests (and emeritus co-Producer / co-Founder of re:verb) Dr. Derek G. Handley to talk about his newly-published book, Struggle for the City: Rhetorics of Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement. This episode is a spiritual successor to our first episode with Derek (all the way back in Episode 6!), which focused on the rhetoric of 20th-century urban renewal policies in Pittsburgh, and African American citizens' resistance to those policies and practices that threatened their homes and businesses.Derek has now expanded his analysis of urban renewal rhetorics - and the modes of citizenship and resistance practiced by African American community members in response to them. His new book, Struggle for the City, focuses on urban renewal policy struggles that played out across three Northern cities in the 1950s and ‘60s: St. Paul Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In each of these case studies, Derek deftly traces the rhetorical contours of the master narrative (such as the use of the “blight” metaphor) that shaped how urban renewal policies, including highway and infrastructure development, ultimately uprooted and destabilized African American communities. In turn, his case studies center on the voices of these communities, showing how they responded using a framework he calls “Black Rhetorical Citizenship.” The rhetorical practices inherent within this mode of citizenship - which include deliberation and community decision-making, the circulation of multi-modal counterstories, and a forward-looking focus on public memory - are not only essential touchstones in the less-publicized history of Civil Rights struggles in Northern cities during the 20th century; they also provide an important scaffold for current rhetorical strategies in ongoing Black freedom and justice struggles in the US writ large.In this conversation, Derek also shares some details of his ongoing public scholarship project (co-directed with UW-M Geography Professor Dr. Anne Bonds) Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County, which seeks to document restrictive and racist housing covenants in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and its surrounding suburbs, as well as community resistance to these and related practices. Derek's book, Struggle for the City: Rhetorics of Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement, is available via Penn State University Press on September 24, 2024More information on the Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County project can be found hereWorks and Concepts Referenced in this EpisodeHandley, D. G. (2019). “The Line Drawn”: Freedom Corner and Rhetorics of Place in Pittsburgh, 1960s-2000s. Rhetoric Review, 38(2), 173-189.Houdek, M., & Phillips, K. R. (2017). Public memory. In Oxford research encyclopedia of communication.Kock, C., & Villadsen, L. (Eds.). (2015). Rhetorical citizenship and public deliberation. Penn State Press.Loyd, J. M., & Bonds, A. (2018). Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Sociological Review, 66(4), 898-918.Mapping Prejudice [University of Minnesota Project on restrictive housing covenants]Musolff, A. (2012). Immigrants and parasites: The history of a bio-social metaphor. In Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 249-258). Vienna: Springer Vienna. [on the use of “disease” metaphors in immigration discourse]Nelson, H. L. (2001). Damaged identities, narrative repair. Fordham University. [on the concepts of “master narrative” and “counterstories”]Pittsburgh Courier Archive (from Newspapers.com)Wilson, A. (2007). The August Wilson Century Cycle. Theatre Communications Group.An accessible transcript for this episode can be found here

In Folge 87 sprechen wir mit 2 Gästinnen über wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Anti-osteuropäischen Rassismus, Zusammenarbeit mit zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteur:innen, eigene Betroffenheit in der Forschung, Deutungshoheit in WIssensproduktion und Auswirkungen wissenschaftlicher Arbeit. Es ist die 2. Folge in Kooperation mit dem Forschungsprojekt „Diskriminierung osteuropäischer Menschen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt“. Unsere Gästinnen: Aleksandra Lewicki leitet das „Sussex European Institute“ und ist „Reader in Sociology“ am Soziologischen Institut der University of Sussex. Ihre Forschung beschäftigt sich mit struktureller Ungleichheit in Einwanderungsgesellschaften, insbesondere Deutschland und Großbritannien. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt hierbei auf institutionellem Rassismus und Diskriminierung.   Darja Klingenberg ist Soziologin an der Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt /Oder. Sie lehrt und forscht im Bereich der Migrations- und Geschlechterforschung, mit Schwerpunkt auf die russischsprachigen, insbesondere die jüdischen Migrationsbewegungen des 20 Jahrhunderts. Sie beschäftigt sich mit Verschränkungen von Klasse, Geschlecht, verschiedenen Rassismen und Antisemitismus im Alltagsleben, in Bildungsinstitutionen und im Feld der Erinnerungspolitik. Hör dir auch die russischsprachigen Folgen des #X3 Podcast mit Salta und Lena an. Folge unserem Instagram @x3podcast und bleib immer up to date! SHOWNOTES Forschungsprojekt “Diskriminierung von Menschen osteuropäischer Herkunft auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Institutionelle und individuelle Kontexte” Klingenberg, Daria (2022) Materialismus und Melancholie. Vom Wohnen Russischsprachiger Migrantischer Mittelschichten, Frankfurt am Main: Campus.  Lewicki, Aleksandra (2023): ‘East-West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialization of ‘Eastern Europeans', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(6), 1481–1499.  Lewicki, Aleksandra (2022): The Material Effects of Whiteness: Institutional Racism in German Care Institutions, The Sociological Review, 70 (5) 916–934. Aziza Khazzoom “The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel”  Patrica Hill Collins “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment” Probst, Ursula (2023) Prekäre Freizügigkeiten. Sexarbeit im Kontext von mobilen Lebenswelten osteuropäischer Migrant*innen in Berlin, Berlin: Transcript.  Parvulescu, Anca (2014) The Traffic in Women's Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.   Parvulescu, Anca and Boatcă, Manuela (2022) Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.  

Krithika Srinivasan joins Claudia on the show to talk about re-animalization, a concept that challenges the dominant ways in which human wellbeing are framed. Re-Animalization compels one to think about how development is predicated on logics of protection and sacrifice, expanding notions of longevity, and a reduction of risk. Re-Animalization offers an opportunity to shift our gaze to the most privileged and to consider how risks might be more evenly distributed.  Date Recorded: 23 November 2023.  Krithika Srinivasan is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political ecology, post-development politics, animal studies, and nature geographies. Her work draws on research in South Asia to rethink globally established concepts and practices about nature-society relations and reconfigure approaches to multispecies justice. Krithika is the principal investor of the project Remaking One Health Indies. She has published widely, including in journals such as the Sociological Review, Geoforum, and Environment and Planning. Learn more about the ROHIndies project on their website and connect with Krithika on Twitter (@KritCrit) Featured: Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development by Krithika SrinivasanThe Eye of the Crocodile by Val PlumwoodPluriversal politics: The real and the possible by Arturo Escobar  Bed bugs are back by Heather LynchRespecting Nature's Autonomy in Relationship with Humanity by Ned Hettinger The Animal Turn is part of the  iROAR, an Animals Podcasting Network and can also be found on A.P.P.L.E, Twitter, and Instagram Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast; Gordon Clarke (Instagram: @_con_sol_) for the bed music, Jeremy John for the logo, Rebecca Shen for her design work, Virginia Thomas for the Animal Highlight, and Christiaan Mentz for his audio editing. This episode was produced by the host Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder. A.P.P.L.E Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E)Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of iROAR Network. Find out more on our website.

Own the Digital RoomStyle coach Samantha Harman joins Leila for a candid, empowering discussion on looking good and feeling confident. Samantha shares her experiences of impostor phenomenon, from using fashion as armour in her early journalism career to now helping ambitious women style their way to self-assurance. Leila provides insights from her own fascinating research on how entrepreneurs grapple with feeling like frauds. This episode offers a thoughtful perspective on using clothing as a vehicle to owning your worth and finding your inner confidence. A must-listen for anyone seeking to feel as bold as they look. Find Samantha online here: https://www.thestyleeditor.co.uk/ / @styleeditoruk / Find Samantha on LinkedIn ‘Samantha (The Style Editor) Harman'Listen to Samantha's podcast, ‘Own the room' (previously ‘the nothing to wear' podcast)Citations and referencesFlugel, J. C. (1933). The psychology of clothes. The Sociological Review, 25(3), 301-304.Adam, H., & Galinsky, A. D. (2012). Enclothed cognition. Journal of experimental social psychology, 48(4), 918-925.Jones, M. G., Lee, T., Chesnutt, K., Carrier, S., Ennes, M., Cayton, E., ... & Huff, P. (2019). Enclothed cognition: Putting lab coats to the test. International Journal of Science Education, 41(14), 1962-1976.https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/enclothed-cognition-brushes-wellConnect with Leila online at www.leilaainge.co.uk and subscribe to her newsletter for psychological insights direct to your inbox. Psychologically Speaking is produced by Buckers at Decibelle Creative / @decibelle_creative

VYS0034 | The Weird Review of the Year 2023 Pt.1 - Show Notes 2023 was a weird year, a slightly frightening year, a year dominated by UAPs becoming ever more unidentified, AIs becoming ever more intelligent, the Military–industrial complex becoming ever more complex and human beings becoming ever more fucking stupid. In this first part of the second annual Weird Review of the Year, Hine takes Buckley on a fevered journey through the haunted forest of the memories of the year that was, stopping along the way to point out the many strange lights in the sky, the fierce black leopards in the long grass, and the spoon bending, sooth-saying light entertainer hiding in the dark shadows cast by the impenetrable canopy of misinformation onto the windy, uncertain and often deceptive desire-path of truth... (recorded 15 January 2024) Thanks to robo-Walken for his kind words and patience and as always to Keith for the show notes - give him a follow on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social Again, the news stories in this episode were sourced from the weird and wonderous website https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/ - bookmark it and check it daily. Hine's Intro They Live, “Chew Bubble Gum and Kick Ass” scene; Crazy Yak - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TcnQxV4BE) They Live (film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live) Roddy Piper - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Piper) All About Dog Poop - Purina (https://www.purina.co.uk/articles/dogs/health/digestion/guide-to-dog-poop) Christopher Walken - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Walken) Imagination is a spectrum – and 1% of people can't mentally visualise things at all - The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/imagination-is-a-spectrum-and-1-of-people-cant-mentally-visualise-things-at-all-199794) Aphantasia - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia) Mental image - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_image) Aidan Wachter's website (https://www.aidanwachter.com/) Jason Miller's website (https://strategicsorcery.net/) The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links (https://www.shamanlinks.net/shaman-info/about-shamanism/the-shamanic-journey/) Does Everyone Have an Inner Monologue? - Very Well Mind (https://www.verywellmind.com/does-everyone-have-an-inner-monologue-6831748) Lev Vygotsky, Thinking and Speech - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Vygotsky#Thinking_and_Speech) Subtitled speech: Phenomenology of tickertape synesthesia - Science Direct (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945222003203?via%3Dihub) Visual imagery vividness declines across the lifespan; Science Direct (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945222001897?via%3Dihub) January 2023 Russia ‘liquidates' UFO Russia Says It Shot Down a UFO - Newsweek (https://www.newsweek.com/russia-rostov-ufo-object-rostov-drone-1771582) Russia Says It Shot Down a UFO (includes video footage) - Cosmos News, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPNCy5L2bgk) What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name? - CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/) Uri Geller blames aliens for outages Jan 11, 2023 Tweet by Uri Geller (https://x.com/theurigeller/status/1613142144599953413?s=20) Uri Geller - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller) Software maintenance mistake at center of major FAA computer meltdown: Official - ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/US/computer-failure-faa-impact-flights-nationwide/story?id=96358202) Meta's social media apps back up after brief outage, Downdetector says - Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-social-media-apps-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2023-01-26/) Microsoft cloud outage hits users around the world - CNN Business (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/25/tech/microsoft-cloud-outage-worldwide-trnd/index.html) Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, by Annie Jacobsen - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30841980-phenomena) Andrija Puharich - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Puharich) Remote viewing - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing) Why Do Artists Lip Sync? Should It Be Acceptable? - Untapped Sound (https://untappedsound.com/why-do-artists-lip-sync-should-it-be-acceptable/) Secret CIA Tests Found TV Psychic Uri Geller Really Did Have Special Powers - The Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-cia-tests-found-tv-psychic-uri-geller-really-did-have-special-powers) Third Eye Spies, Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvAd4TlUNY) Third Eye Spies (Full Documentary) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WUaS_Ynd_M) Hellier Season 1 - Planet Weird TV (https://www.planetweird.tv/hellier-season-1) Study finds link between poor sleep and paranormal beliefs Poor Sleep Linked To Paranormal Beliefs Around Aliens, Ghosts, And Demons - IFL Science (https://www.iflscience.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-paranormal-beliefs-around-aliens-ghosts-and-demons-67190) The associations between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables - Journal of Sleep Research, Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsr.13810) Insomnia - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia) In Our Time (radio series) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(radio_series)) In Our Time podcast episodes - BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player) Dana Scully - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scully) Sleep deprivation -- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation) Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis) Exploding head syndrome - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome) Night hag - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag) Analysis paralysis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis) Consensus reality - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_reality) Surf culture - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_culture) Scientists discover that the Sea Spider can regrow its anus Sea spiders can regrow their anuses, scientists discover - Live Science (https://www.livescience.com/sea-spiders-anus-regeneration) Pycnogonum litorale - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pycnogonum_litorale) Arthropod - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod) Arachnid - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid) Uncovering the Mysteries of Sea Spider Anatomy - Spiders USA (https://spidersusa.com/uncovering-the-mysteries-of-sea-spider-anatomy/) Vayse episodes in January VYS0014 | The Weird Review of the Year 2022 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0014) VYS0015 | The Green Witch's Guide to the January Blues - Vayse to Face with Jennifer Lane (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0015) The Wheel: A Witch's Path Back to the Ancient Self by Jennifer Lane - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59126905-the-wheel) The Witch's Survival Guide: Spells for Healing from Stress and Burnout by Jennifer Lane - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91301757-the-witch-s-survival-guide) The Black Air by Jennifer Lane - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61350299-the-black-air) February 2023 The Great High-Altitude Object Flap US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over east coast - The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/04/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-us) 2023 Chinese balloon incident - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident) Roswell incident - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident) Unidentified object shot down over Alaska by US military, White House says - The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/10/alaska-us-military-unidentified-object-white-house) Why the Military Keeps Spotting so Many Unidentified Flying Objects—and Then Shooting Them Down - Time (https://time.com/6255261/us-shoots-down-unidentified-objects/) List of high-altitude object events in 2023 - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023) Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story by Nick Redfern - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276887.Body_Snatchers_in_the_Desert) Nick Redfern's blog (https://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com/) Progeria - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria) What Really Happened at Roswell? - Where Did The Road Go? podcast (https://wheredidtheroadgo.com/show-archive/2023/item/845-what-really-happened-at-roswell-march-11-2023) Nick Redfern: The Roswell UFO Conspiracy - Somewhere in the Skies podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/somewhere-in-the-skies/id1227858637?i=1000385909775) Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9045589-mirage-men) Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65213521-encounters) Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) Zeitgeist - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist) Man killed by chicken Man dies from ‘aggressive' chicken attack causes fatal puncture wounds; Yahoo (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/man-dies-aggressive-chicken-attack-142956366.html) ‘Litres of blood': Daughter of man who died after chicken attack breaks silence - The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brahma-chicken-man-killed-jasper-kraus-b2284350.html) Man found dead in pool of blood after chicken attack, inquest hears - Irish Examiner (https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41070338.html) DARPA trials pilotless AI-powered fighter jets ACE Program's AI Agents Transition from Simulation to Live Flight - DARPA (https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-02-13) The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets - Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/us-air-force-skyborg-vista-ai-fighter-jets/) Beyond Automation: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Aviation - Future Flight (https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2023-07-13/beyond-automation-how-artificial-intelligence-transforming-aviation) Brace yourselves: AI could co-pilot planes, reveals Emirates Airline president - Interesting Engineering (https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/single-pilot-flights-with-ai) Vayse episodes in February VYS0016 | We Created It By Talking About It - Vayse to Face with Ken Eakins (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0016) SideVayse: SVYS002 | Darkness, Darkness (https://www.vayse.co.uk/svys002) The Darkness (band) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkness_(band)) March 2023 Colombian children hospitalised after playing with a Ouija board (again) 28 girls hospitalized with ‘anxiety' after playing with Ouija board - New York Post (https://nypost.com/2023/03/07/28-girls-hospitalized-for-anxiety-after-ouija-board-game/) 11 children found collapsed in school corridor after playing Ouija board game - Daily Mirror (2022) (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/11-children-found-collapsed-school-28459270) Ouija - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija) Virgin Mary statues - Lostpedia (https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Virgin_Mary_statues) Occam's razor - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor) The Exorcist (film), 1973 - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist) The Exorcist | 4K Ultra HD Official Trailer; Warner Bros. - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU2eYAO31Cc) Cylindrical UFO sighted over Baghdad Cylindrical UFO detected by thermal imaging drone flying over Baghdad - Curious Cosmos (includes video) (https://curiosmos.com/cylindrical-ufo-detected-by-thermal-imaging-drone-flying-over-baghdad/) The "Jellyfish UAP" is just a smudge on the IR camera's casing - Reddit (includes arguments for and against) (https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/192w8u1/the_jellyfish_uap_is_just_a_smudge_on_the_ir/) Floating "Jellyfish" UFO haunted US military base in Iraq for years, says former US Marine intelligence analyst - Daily Mail (includes videos) (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12956423/Floating-Jellyfish-UFO-haunted-military-base-Iraq-years-says-former-Marine-intelligence-analyst-shown-infrared-video-colleagues.html) Optics, Human eye - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optics#Human_eye) Seeing "Jesus in toast" phenomenon perfectly normal, professor says - Science Daily (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140506115622.htm) Pareidolia - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia) George Knapp - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Knapp_(television_journalist)) Jeremey Corbell - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbell) Calvine UFO photo solved? UFO investigator claims to have ‘solved' UK's biggest X-Files mystery in Scotland - MSN, Daily Record (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/ufo-investigator-claims-to-have-solved-uk-s-biggest-x-files-mystery-in-scotland/ar-AA18iVpg) Secret UFO dossier into 1990 Scottish "spacecraft sighting" sealed for another 50 years - Daily Record (https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/secret-ufo-dossier-1990-scottish-22824456) BAE Systems Military Air & Information - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Military_Air_%26_Information) Warton Aerodrome - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warton_Aerodrome) Woman has been eating toilet paper every day for 23 years "It's Like Crack": Chicago Woman Gets Addicted To Eating Toilet Paper Rolls - India Times (https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/wtf/woman-addicted-to-eating-toilet-rolls-594963.html) Woman has been eating toilet paper every day for 23 years - Unexplained Mysteries (https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/364593/woman-has-been-eating-toilet-paper-every-day-for-23-years) Pica (disorder) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)) Matter-Eater Lad - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter-Eater_Lad) Magpie - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie) Michel Lotito - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito) Harry Crews - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crews) Car: A Novel by Harry Crews - Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Car-Novel-Harry-Crews/dp/068802145X/) Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader by Harry Crews - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24844) Penny Royal, Season Two, Episode Two: Mystery Machine (James Shelby Downard) (https://www.pennyroyalpodcast.com/) James Shelby Downard - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shelby_Downard) Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_the_Wrong-Eyed_Jesus) Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (trailer); Dogwoof - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3yEqMeU64) Arena: Searching for the One Eyed Jesus - BBC iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qfn/arena-searching-for-the-wrongeyed-jesus) Kesha - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha) Gag Order (album) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_Order_(album)) Gag Order by Kesha (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KOCqO0pNtc&list=PLxA687tYuMWjQSSU1zRr3N2-xg5X0-LUe) Kesha and the Creepies - Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kesha-and-the-creepies/id1534028155) Alice Cooper - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper) St Vincent (musician) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vincent_(musician)) Kelly Osborne - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Osbourne) Mitch Horowitz - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Horowitz) Rick Rubin - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin) Uri Geller posts more UFO stuff Uri Geller posts up footage of alleged UFO on Twitter - Unexplained Mysteries (https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/365560/uri-geller-posts-up-footage-of-alleged-ufo-on-twitter) March 29, 2023 Tweet by Uri Geller (https://x.com/theurigeller/status/1641148655615737884?s=20) Vayse episodes in March VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0017) VYS0018 | Ex Cabus Ad Astra - Vayse to Face with Kathryn J Preston (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0018) April 2023 Elon Musk starts new AI company Elon Musk quietly starts X.AI, a new artificial intelligence company to challenge OpenAI - VentureBeat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/elon-musk-quietly-starts-x-ai-a-new-artificial-intelligence-company-to-challenge-openai/) US Senate Committee holds open hearings on the UFO issue UFO hearing in Senate: New videos but no hard evidence - EarthSky (https://earthsky.org/human-world/ufo-hearing-senate-uap-congress/) Pentagon has "no credible evidence" of aliens or UFOs that defy physics - Space (https://www.space.com/pentagon-aaro-ufo-hearing-april-2023) AARO website (https://www.aaro.mil/) Ontology - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology) Spanish athlete spends 500 days alone in cave A Spanish athlete spent 500 days alone in a cave — for science - NPR (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170388759/500-days-cave-beatriz-flamini-spain) Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time - The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/woman-spends-500-days-alone-in-a-cave-how-extreme-isolation-can-alter-your-sense-of-time-204166) Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm) Pop out cake - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_out_cake) Social isolation and dementia risk - Alzheimer's Society (https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/managing-the-risk-of-dementia/reduce-your-risk-of-dementia/social-isolation) Time anxiety: what it is and how you can deal with it - Clockify (https://clockify.me/blog/managing-time/time-anxiety/) Time out of Joint: Capitalism takes a dysrhythmic toll on nature's clocks and human lives - Sociological Review (https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/march-2022/time/time-out-of-joint/) Vayse episodes in April VYS0019 – It's a Very, Very Mad World: Donnie Darko (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0019) VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0020) Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9045589-mirage-men) May 2023 Spherical object of unknown origin intercepted off Hawaii F-22s Intercepted “Spherical Object” Off Hawaii In Latest Balloon Chase - The Drive (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-22s-intercepted-spherical-object-off-hawaii-in-latest-balloon-chase) ‘Definitive proof‘: Big cats prowl the British countryside New DNA evidence "confirms" presence of big cats in the UK - Discover Wildlife (https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-dna-evidence-confirms-presence-of-big-cats-in-the-uk) British big cats - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_big_cats) Panthera Britannia Declassified (Official Trailer); Dragonfly Films - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQd87zpahpI) Panthera Britannia streaming: where to watch online? - Just Watch (https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/panthera-britannia) Joe Exotic (‘The Tiger King') - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Exotic) Stanford professor says aliens are ‘100 %' on earth Stanford professor says aliens are ‘100 per cent' on earth, US is ‘reverse-engineering downed UFOs' - News.com (https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/stanford-professor-says-aliens-are-100-per-cent-on-earth-us-is-reverseengineering-downed-ufos/news-story/041694ef5df4791fbdfa303a08f34a9c) This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent' Already Here - Popular Mechanics (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a43978705/stanford-professor-says-aliens-are-already-here/) Garry Nolan - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Nolan) American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38819245-american-cosmic) Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65213521-encounters) Sekret Machines: Gods - Volume 1 of Gods, Man, & War by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda -Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32505811-sekret-machines) Communion (1989) - Trailer; The SciFi Spot - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ9SI7WShfU) Luis Elizondo - Wikipeida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Elizondo) Immunology - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology) Erich von Däniken - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken) Sinister Forces Book Three: The Manson Secret by Peter Levenda - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19183915-sinister-forces-the-manson-secret) Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber) Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) MKUltra - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra) Prisoner of Infinity: Social Engineering, UFOs, and the Psychology of Fragmentation by Jasun Horsley - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39729748-prisoner-of-infinity) FDA approves Elon Musk's Neuralink chip for human trials The FDA finally approved Elon Musk's Neuralink chip for human trials. Have all the concerns been addressed? - The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/the-fda-finally-approved-elon-musks-neuralink-chip-for-human-trials-have-all-the-concerns-been-addressed-206610) The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink's Monkeys Actually Died - Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/) Elon Musk's claim that no monkey died as a result of Neuralink implants contradicts records that show how the animals experienced brain swelling, paralysis, seizures, and other health effects, letter to SEC alleges - Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-monkeys-infections-paralysis-brain-swelling-implants-sec-2023-9?r=US&IR=T#:~:text=Musk%2C%20who%20co%2Dfounded%20the,connect%20to%20a%20device%20remotely) Musk's Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing - The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation) Neuralink website (https://neuralink.com/) Vayse episodes in May VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0021) Spirit Box S2 #18 / Peter Hine and Stephen Buckley, Dreams, Nightmares and Pan - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkrq25g2vWc) SideVayse: SVYS003 | Anglezarke (https://www.vayse.co.uk/svys003) Prague - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague) John Dee - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee) Enochian - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian) Allen Greenfield on Twitter (https://twitter.com/allengreenfield) Vayse online Vayse website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/) Vayse on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav) Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/) Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-vayse-volume-1) Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse) Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

What are rules for? What's at stake if we assume that they're neutral? And if we want rules to be progressive, does it matter who makes them? Socio-legal scholar Swethaa Ballakrishnen joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, highlighting the value of studying law not just in theory but in action, and drawing on a career spanning law and academia in India and the USA.As the author of "Accidental Feminism", which explores unintended parity in the Indian legal profession, Swethaa talks to Rosie and Alexis about intention and whether it is always needed for positive outcomes. We also ask: in a society characterised as “post-truth”, does anyone even care about rules anymore? Plus, Swethaa dissects the trope of “neutrality” – firmly embedded in legal discourse, from the idea of “blind justice” to the notion of equality before the law. There are dangers, they explain, to assuming that law is neutral, particularly given that it is often those in power who get to make and extend the rules – something critical race scholars have long been aware of.Swethaa also fills us in on their recent interest in the TV show "Ted Lasso" and considers pop culture that speaks to our theme, including the series "Made in Heaven" and "Extraordinary Attorney Woo", plus a short film by Arun Falara.Guest: Swethaa BallakrishnenHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesFrom The Sociological ReviewSocio-legal Implications for Digital Environmental Activism – Audrey Verma et al.The Moral Rhetoric of a Civilized Society – Susanna MenisDepoliticisation, hybridisation and dual processes of stigmatisation – Shaoying ZhangBy Swethaa BallakrishnenAccidental FeminismLaw School as Straight SpaceGender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy (co-authored with Kalpana Kannabiran)“At Odds with Everything Around Me” in Out of Place (forthcoming)“Of Queerness, Rights, and Utopic Possibilities” (interview) – part of Queering the (Court)RoomFurther reading, viewing and listening“Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice” – Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth (eds)“Criminal Behavior as an Expression of Identity and a Form of Resistance” – Kathryne Young“The Language of Law School” – Elizabeth MertzTV series: “Extraordinary Attorney Woo”, “Ted Lasso”, “Made in Heaven”“Sunday” (short film)– Arun FularaUncommon Sense: Performance, with Kareem KhubchandaniRead more about the work of David B. Wilkins and Deborah L. Rhode.

What exactly is spirituality? How does it relate to religion? Are both misunderstood? And what stands beyond and behind the idea that it has all simply been commodified to be about wellness, big business and celebrity? Andrew Singleton joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, including his experience researching young people's spiritual practices in Australia, and time spent in Papua New Guinea.Andrew describes how what has been called the “spiritual turn” emerged through the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and led to today's “spiritual marketplace”. We ask whether the young people of today's Generation Z are more open-minded than their elders – and whether, across the Global North and Global South, people are meeting a need for betterment in the “here and now” through spirituality, but also religion.Plus: what did Marx really mean when he described religion as the “opium of the people” – and how has that quote taken on a (rather cynical) life of its own? Also, from reactions to the bestselling Eat, Pray, Love to the historical condemnation of female fortune tellers, why do our definitions and dismissals of spirituality seem to be so deeply gendered?Guest: Andrew SingletonHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesFrom The Sociological ReviewThe spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict – Galen Watts, Dick HoutmanThe “Belief” issue of The Sociological Review Magazine (May 2022)Capitalising on faith? An intergenerational study of social and religious capital among Baby Boomers and Millennials in Britain – Stuart Fox, et al.By Andrew SingletonFreedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity (co-authored with M.L. Rasmussen, A. Halafoff, G. Bouma)Religion, Culture and Society: A Global ApproachThe Spirit of Generation Y: Young People's Spirituality in a Changing Australia (co-authored with M. Mason, R. Webber)Further reading and listening“Selling Yoga” and “Peace Love Yoga” – Andrea Jain“Selling Spirituality” – Jeremy Carrette, Richard King“Selling (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 in Australia” – Anna Halafoff, et al.“Women's Work: The Professionalisation and Policing of Fortune-Telling in Australia” – Alana Piper“Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World” – Alexandra Roginski“The Dream” podcast – Jane MarieRead more on the life and work of Gary Bauma, as well as about Karl Marx and Michel Foucault.

Anxiety is part of contemporary life, yet rarely seen as anything other than personal and intimately psychological. Cultural Studies scholar Nicky Falkof joins us to discuss her work on fear and anxiety in South Africa, and how such negative emotions are often collective and collectively constructed – and relate deeply to our identities. Indeed, as Nicky tells us, if you ask yourself what or whom you're scared of, you quickly face the question of who you think you are. Hear about Nicky's teenage engagement in goth culture as South Africa approached the end of apartheid, and how it led her to think critically about fear and social change. Plus, she explains why that country, and Johannesburg in particular – as explored in her new book “Worrier State” – is seen as such a fascinating site for studying anxiety. With Rosie and Alexis, she also reflects on the architecture of fear – and why some people are unjustly expected to live in fear while others feel entitled to fight it.We also take on the trope of reflexivity, as Nicky considers how being truly reflexive requires not just introspection and soul-searching but meaningful practical action. With reflection on thinkers from Zygmunt Bauman to Jacob Dlamini and from Sara Ahmed to Sigmund Freud. Plus: what can the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles possibly teach us about anxiety?Guest: Nicky FalkofHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesFrom The Sociological Review‘Under attack': Responsibility, crisis and survival anxiety amongst manager-academics in UK universities – Vik LovedayDecolonising and re-theorising the meaning of democracy: A South African perspective – Heidi Brooks, Trevor Ngwane, Carin RuncimanSocial class, symbolic domination, and Angst: The example of the Norwegian social space – Andreas Schmitz, Magne Flemmen, Lennart RosenlundBy Nicky FalkofWorrier State: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South AfricaThe End of Whiteness: Satanism and family murder in South AfricaFind out more on Nicky's websiteFurther reading“The Cultural Politics of Emotion” – Sara Ahmed“Gender Trouble” – Judith Butler“Liquid Fear” – Zygmunt Bauman“Female Fear Factory” – Pumla Dineo Gqola“Native Nostalgia” – Jacob DlaminiRead more about Sigmund Freud, and the work of Johnny Steinberg.

“If you're talented and work hard, success (whatever that is) will be yours!” – So says the powerful system and ideology known as “meritocracy”. But if only it were so simple! Jo Littler joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on where this idea came from, how it became mainstream, and how it gets used by elites to convince us we live in a system that is open and fair when the reality is anything but that.But Jo also shows things are changing. Since the crash of 2008 it's been clear we're living and working on a far from “level” playing field. Jo describes the recent embrace of non-work and the rise of assertive “left feminisms” as a sign of hope that the tide may be turning against meritocracy and shallow ideas of success, and discusses the work of people leading the way. Plus: we reflect on the trope of escape. Why is it so often that to “succeed” in life, one must leave the place that they're from and embrace the risky and new? And what's up with the cliche of the “ladder” as a visual image for success? Jo reflects with reference to everyone from Ayn Rand to Raymond Williams. Also: we consider the 1990s rise of the “Mumpreneur” and the more recent phenomenon of the “Cleanfluencer”.Guest: Jo LittlerHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesJo, Alexis and Rosie recommendC. Carraway's book “Skint Estate”M. Brown and R. Jones' book “Paint Your Town Red”D. Aronofsky's film “Requiem for a Dream”R. Linklater's film “Slacker”From The Sociological ReviewSociological reflections on ‘doing' aspiration within the psychic landscape of class – Kim AllenBirds of a Feather – Natalie WreyfordThe price of the ticket revised –  Anthony Miro BornBy Jo LittlerAgainst MeritocracyMrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework (co-authored with Emma Casey)Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and PoliticalFurther reading“The Rise of the Meritocracy” – Michael Young“The Coming of Post-industrial Society” – Daniel Bell“Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations” – Simone Varriale“Perceptions of Meritocracy in Singapore” – Terri-Anne Teo“Meritocracy and Elitism in a Global City” – Kenneth Paul Tan“The Tyranny of Merit” – Michael Sandel“Inequality by Design” – Claude Fischer, et al.“Notes on the Perfect”– Angela McRobbie“Culture and Society” – Raymond WilliamsRead more about the industrial sociologist Alan Fox, the work of Bev Skeggs on respectability politics, the work of Nancy Fraser, and the Billionaire Britain 2022 report by The Equality Trust.

What is public sociology and why does it matter more than ever? Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis and Cecilia Menjívar join Michaela Benson to reflect on its meaning, value and stakes. In a time of perpetual crisis and gross inequality, how can sociologists best change minds and set agendas? Why are some voices valued over others? And who does being truly “public” involve more than simply being high profile?Gary Younge reflects on what sociologists and journalists can teach each other – and the ongoing struggle in the UK for space in which work on race can be truly incubated and explored. Cecilia Menjívar describes her deep engagement with migration and gender-based violence – and how in Latin America, “public sociology” is simply “sociology”. And Chantelle Lewis describes the lack of value applied to black scholarship in UK academia – and urges us to embrace hope, honesty and solidarity.An essential listening! Discussing thinkers ranging from E.H. Carr on history to Maria Marcela Lagarde on feminicide, plus Stuart Hall, Hazel Carby, bell hooks, ​​Sheila Rowbotham and many more.Guests: Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis, Cecilia MenjívarHost: Michaela BensonExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesFrom The Sociological ReviewStrategies of public intellectual engagement – Mohamed Amine Brahimi, et al.An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism – Karim MurjiCurating Sociology – Nirmal Puwar, Sanjay SharmaBy our guestsGary's books Dispatches from the Diaspora & Another Day in the Death of AmericaChantelle's co-produced podcast Surviving SocietyCecilia's work on migration and gender-based violenceFurther reading“Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye” – Gary Younge“Women's Liberation & the New Politics” – Sheila Rowbotham“For Public Sociology” – Michael Burawoy“What is History?” – E.H. Carr“Beyond the blade” – investigation by The GuardianRead more about the work of Hazel Carby, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall and bell hooks, the life and work of Marcela Lagarde and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the work of Jane Addams on public housing, as well as the poet, essayist and activist June Jordan.

From Shakespeare to RuPaul, we all love a performance. But what exactly is it? What are its boundaries, its powers, its potential, its stakes? Kareem Khubchandani, who also performs as LaWhore Vagistan – “everyone's favourite desi drag queen aunty” – joins Uncommon Sense to unpack the latest thinking on refusal, repetition and more. And to discuss “Ishtyle”, Kareem's ethnography of gay Indian nightlife in Chicago and Bangalore, which attends to desire and fun in the lives of global Indian workers too often stereotyped as cogs in the wheels of globalisation.Kareem also reflects on the particular value of queer nightlife, and celebrates how drag kings skilfully unmask what might be the ultimate performance: heteromasculinity. We also ask: what do thinkers like Bourdieu and Foucault reveal about performance? Why is there still a way to go in our understanding of drag and how might decolonising it serve us all? Plus: why calling something “performative” is actually not about calling things “fake”? In fact, performance can make things “real”…With reflection on Judith Butler, “Paris is Burning”, “RuPaul's Drag Race” and clubbing in Sydney and Tokyo.Guest: Kareem KhubchandaniHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesFrom The Sociological ReviewAdvantages of upper-class backgrounds: Forms of capital, school cultures and educational performance – Vegard Jarness, Thea Bertnes Strømme‘You've Gotta Learn how to Play the Game': Homeless Women's Use of Gender Performance as a Tool for Preventing Victimization – Laura Huey, Eric BerndtPerforming the Disabled Body in Academia – Luke WalkerBy Kareem KhubchandaniIshtyleDecolonize DragQueer Nightlife (co-edited with Kemi Adeyemi and Ramón Rivera-Servera)Dance Floor DivasKareem's website, including more about LaWhore VagistanFurther reading and viewing“Introduction to Performing Refusal/Refusing to Perform” – Lilian G. Mengesha, Lakshmi Padmanabhan“Everynight Life” – Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz (editors)“Cruising Utopia” – José Esteban Muñoz“Gender Trouble” – Judith Butler“Camera Lucida” – Roland Barthes“Paris is Burning” (film) – Jennie LivingstoneRead more about the work of Dhiren Borisa, Saidiya V Hartman, D. Soyini Madison and Joshua Chambers-Letson; as well as Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Foucault.

At Amnesty Tech, a division of human rights organization Amnesty International, Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi leverage their expertise in technology and public policy to examine the use of AI in the public sector and its impact on citizens worldwide. In Part 1 of Matt and Damini's conversation with Sam and Shervin, they described scenarios in which AI tools can put human rights at risk and how their work is helping to expose those risks and protect people from the technology's misuse. In this episode, they resume their conversation and dig deeper into the ways AI regulations can limit the negative use of AI at scale. Matt and Damini also caution us about what a dystopian future might hold and point to specific ways leaders in the corporate world can help limit the harms of AI. Read this episode's transcript here. Me, Myself, and AI is a collaborative podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Sophie Rüdinger. Stay in touch with us by joining our LinkedIn group, AI for Leaders at mitsmr.com/AIforLeaders or by following Me, Myself, and AI on LinkedIn. Guest bios: Matt Mahmoudi is a lecturer, researcher, and organizer. He's been leading Amnesty International's research and advocacy efforts on banning facial recognition technologies and exposing their uses against racialized communities, from New York City to the occupied Palestinian territories. He was the inaugural recipient of the Jo Cox Ph.D. scholarship at the University of Cambridge, where he studied digital urban infrastructures as new frontiers for racial capitalism and remains an affiliated lecturer in sociology. His work has appeared in the journals The Sociological Review and International Political Sociology and the book Digital Witness (Oxford University Press, 2020). His forthcoming book is Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control (University of California Press, 2023). Damini Satija is a human rights and public policy expert working on data and artificial intelligence, with a focus on algorithmic discrimination, welfare automation, government surveillance, and tech equity. She is head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab and a deputy director at Amnesty Tech. She previously worked as an adviser to the U.K. government on data and AI ethics and represented the U.K. as a policy expert on AI and human rights at the Council of Europe. She has a master's degree in public administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. We encourage you to rate and review our show. Your comments may be used in Me, Myself, and AI materials.

Amnesty International brings together more than 10 million staff members and volunteers worldwide to advocate for social justice. Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi work with Amnesty Tech, a division of the human rights organization that focuses on the role of government, Big Tech, and technologies like artificial intelligence in areas like surveillance, discrimination, and bias. On this episode, Matt and Damini join Sam and Shervin to highlight scenarios in which AI tools can put human rights at risk, such as when governments and public-sector agencies use facial recognition systems to track social activists or algorithms to make automated decisions about public housing access and child welfare. Damini and Matt caution that AI technology cannot fix human problems like bias, discrimination, and inequality; that will take human intervention and changes to public policy. Read the episode transcript here. For more on what organizations can do to combat the unintended negative consequences arising from the use of automated technologies, tune in to our next episode, Part 2 of our conversation with Matt and Damini, airing September 13, 2023. Me, Myself, and AI is a collaborative podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Sophie Rüdinger. Stay in touch with us by joining our LinkedIn group, AI for Leaders at mitsmr.com/AIforLeaders or by following Me, Myself, and AI on LinkedIn. Guest bios: Matt Mahmoudi is a lecturer, researcher, and organizer. He's been leading Amnesty International's research and advocacy efforts on banning facial recognition technologies and exposing their uses against racialized communities, from New York City to the occupied Palestinian territories. He was the inaugural recipient of the Jo Cox Ph.D. scholarship at the University of Cambridge, where he studied digital urban infrastructures as new frontiers for racial capitalism and remains an affiliated lecturer in sociology. His work has appeared in the journals The Sociological Review and International Political Sociology and the book Digital Witness (Oxford University Press, 2020). His forthcoming book is Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control (University of California Press, 2023). Damini Satija is a human rights and public policy expert working on data and artificial intelligence, with a focus on algorithmic discrimination, welfare automation, government surveillance, and tech equity. She is head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab and a deputy director at Amnesty Tech. She previously worked as an adviser to the U.K. government on data and AI ethics and represented the U.K. as a policy expert on AI and human rights at the Council of Europe. She has a master's degree in public administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. We encourage you to rate and review our show. Your comments may be used in Me, Myself, and AI materials.

It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what's at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she considers what happens when neoliberalism shapes what “good” nature is – whether in regeneration or meddling with metabolisms.Alexis and Rosie also ask Catherine: how might the chicken be “thriving” yet also “extinct”? What potential is there in speaking of the “more than” and “beyond” human? And what responsibility do social scientists have for the age-old binaries that split humans from wider nature?Plus: a celebration of Andrea Arnold's “Cow”, Margaret Atwood's “MaddAddam” trilogy and – Alexis' favourite – “Captain Planet”.Guest: Catherine OliverHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesCatherine, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedAndrea Arnold's film “Cow”Margaret Atwood's “MaddAddam” book trilogyTV series “Captain Planet and the Planeteers”Evia Wylk's essay collection “Death by Landscape”From The Sociological ReviewPerforming the classification of nature – Claire WatertonDaphne the Cat: Reimagining human–animal boundaries on Facebook – Verónica PolicarpoUnnatural Times? The Social Imaginary and the Future of Nature – Kate SoperBy Catherine OliverRising with the rooster: How urban chickens are relaxing the pace of lifeTransforming paradise: Neoliberal regeneration and more-than-human urbanism in BirminghamThe Opposite of ExtinctionReturning to 'The Good Life'? Chickens and Chicken-keeping during Covid-19 in BritainMetabolic ruminations with climate cattle: towards a more-than-human metabo-politics (co-authored with Jonathon Turnbull)Further reading“Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save” – Tyson Yunkaporta“Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion” – Lori G. Beaman, Lauren Strumos“A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet” – Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore“The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir” – Alice Walker“The Chicken Book” – Page Smith, Charles DanielRead more about the work of Zoe Todd, Adam Searle, Anna Tsing, Anna Guasco, Paige Colton and The Care Collective.

Does anyone know what European means? Manuela Boatcă thought she did, until a late 1990s move from Romania to Germany unsettled everything she had taken for granted. In this episode, she challenges mainstream ideas of “Europe” to show how its borders extend to the Caribbean (and beyond) – a fact that's obvious if we acknowledge colonialism's past and present, but is an inconvenient truth for some in political power.Alexis and Rosie ask Manuela: How has Brexit revealed the contradictions built into so much discourse about “Europe”? How does “Creolizing” theory differ from “Decolonising” it? And what is the legacy of early sociologist Max Weber's leading question: why the West?Plus: a celebration of Immanuel Wallerstein's World Systems approach, which decentres the nation state. With reflection on Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih.Guest: Manuela BoatcăHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesManuela, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedArton Capital's The Passport Index“Europe” travel guidesAntoni Gaudi's Sagrada FamíliaDaša Drndić's novel “Canzone Di Guerra”From The Sociological ReviewThe material effects of Whiteness – Aleksandra LewickiPuzzlement of a déjà vu – Nirmal PuwarThe ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites' – Dominika Blachnika-Ciacek, Irma Budinaite-MackineBy Manuela BoatcăThinking Europe Otherwise(Dis)United KingdomCounter-Mapping as MethodWhat does British citizenship have to do with Global Social Inequalities?Further reading“Provincializing Europe” – Dipesh Chakrabarty“Poetics of relation” – Édouard Glissant“The Creolization of Theory” – Shu-mei Shih, Françoise Lionnet“Sweetness And Power” – Sidney Mintz“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” – Max Weber“The Essential Wallerstein” – Immanuel WallersteinRead more about the work of Stuart Hall, Fernand Braudel, Aníbal Quijano, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Fernando Coronil and Salman Sayyid.

AUDIO CONTENT WARNING: description of extreme racist violenceIn 1993, Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack that sparked a long fight for justice and led the UK to ask questions of itself and its institutions. Three decades on – with The Runnymede Trust's Shabna Begum, and Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group – Karis Campion of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre hosts this special episode to ask: who are we now? What happened to anti-racist solidarity and how can it progress?Karis and guests reflect on the fragmentation of “political blackness”, “monitoring” as a radical act inspired by The Black Panther Party, and the importance of showing systemic racism while doing justice to individual lives. Plus: what does social media offer to anti-racism when the internet provides fertile ground for prejudice? And what are the costs of fighting for change in an unjust world?With reference to the activist writer Ambalavaner Sivanandan, the feminist scholar Audre Lorde, the social geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and more. A collaboration between the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and The Sociological Review.Guests: Suresh Grover, Shabna BegumHost: Karis CampionExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesFrom Karis, Shabna and SureshKaris' work at The Stephen Lawrence Research CentreShabna's book “From Sylhet to Spitalfields”Suresh in conversation with Paul GilroyFurther reading“Abolition Geography” – Ruth Wilson Gilmore“Another Day in the Death of America” – Gary Younge“Here to Stay, Here to Fight” – Paul Field, et al. (eds)“I Write What I Like” – Steve Biko“Policing the Crisis” – Stuart Hall, et al.“Race and Resistance” – Ambalavaner Sivanandan“The Uses of Anger” – Audre LordeOnline resourcesOver-policed and under-protected: the road to Safer Schools – The Runnymede TrustThe Baroness Casey Review (this episode was recorded prior to this publication)The Black Panther Party – US National ArchivesThe Stephen Lawrence Inquiry – Sir William MacphersonFind out more about Quddus Ali and the cases of Michael Menson, Ricky Reel, Rolan Adams and Rohit Duggal, as well as the activist Claudia Jones.And check out The Monitoring Group and The Runnymede Trust, as well as The Stephen Lawrence Centre Archive.

Too often, talk about security seems to belong to politicians and psychologists; to discussions about terrorism and defence, individual anxiety and insecurity. But how do sociologists think about it? And why care?  Daria Krivonos – who works on migration, race and class in Central and Eastern Europe – tells Alexis and Rosie why security matters. What's the impact of calling migration a “security threat”? How does the security of the privileged rely on the insecurity of the precarious? And, as Russia's war in Ukraine continues, what would it mean to truly #StandwithUkraine – from ensuring better job security for its workers abroad, to cancelling its debt?  Plus: pop culture pointers; from Kae Tempest's “People's Faces” to the movie “The Mauritanian” – and Alexis' teenage passion for Rage Against the Machine.    Guest: Daria Krivonos  Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong  Executive Producer: Alice Bloch  Sound Engineer: David Crackles  Music: Joe Gardner  Artwork: Erin Aniker    Find more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.    Episode Resources  Daria, Rosie and Alexis recommended  Kae Tempest's song “People's Faces”  Rage Against the Machine's song “Without a Face”  Kevin Macdonald's movie “The Mauritanian”    From The Sociological Review  “Brexit On ‘Plague Island': Fortifying The UK's Borders In Times Of Crisis” – Michaela Benson and Nando Sigona  “Organised State Abandonment: The meaning of Grenfell” – Brenna Bhandar  “Food Insecurity: Upsetting ‘Apple Carts' in Abstract and Tangible Markets” – Susan Marie Martin    By Daria Krivonos  “The making of gendered ‘migrant workers' in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland”  “Ukrainian farm workers and Finland's regular army of labour”  “Who stands with Ukraine in the long term?”  “Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw” (forthcoming)    Further readings  “The Death of Asylum” – Alison Mountz  “What was the so-called ‘European Refugee Crisis'?” – Danish Refugee Council  World Food Programme Yemen and Ethiopia statistics  “In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All” – UN Secretary-General  “Ukrainian Workers Flee ‘Modern Slavery' Conditions on UK Farms” – Diane Taylor  “Bordering” – Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy  Anthony Giddens' sociological work; including “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age” 

“Follow”? “Block”? “Accept”? Anthropologist Ilana Gershon joins us to reflect on breakups in both our intimate and working lives. She tells Alexis and Rosie how hearing her students' surprising stories of using new media – supposedly a tool for connection – to end romantic entanglements led to her 2010 book “The Breakup 2.0”. She also shares insights from studying hiring in corporate America and describes how, in the febrile “new economy”, the very nature of networking and how we understand our careers have been transformed.Ilana also celebrates Marilyn Strathern's influential article “Cutting the Network” for challenging our assumptions about endless and easy connection. She responds to the work of sociologists Richard Sennett and Mark Granovetter, and highlights Teri Silvio's theory of “animation” as a fruitful way of thinking about our online selves.Plus: Rosie, Alexis and Ilana share their pop culture picks on this month's theme, from the hit TV show “Severance” to the phenomenon of “shitposting” on Linkedin.Guest: Ilana GershonHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesIlana, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedDan Erickson's TV series “Severance”“shitposting” on Linkedin, as discussed by Bethan Kapur for VICEThe Quebec reality TV show “Occupation Double”Halle Butler's novel “The New Me”From The Sociological Review“A Sociological Playlist” – Meg-John Barker and Justin Hancock“The Sociology of Love” – Julia Carter“Becoming Ourselves Online: Disabled Transgender Existence In/Through Digital Social Life” – Christian J. Harrison“The Politics of Digital Peace, Play, and Privacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Digital Engagement, Enclaves, and Entitlement” – Francesca SobandeFrom Uncommon Sense: “Intimacy, with Katherine Twamley”By Ilana Gershon“The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media”“The Breakup 2.1: The ten-year update”“Un-Friend My Heart: Facebook, Promiscuity, and Heartbreak in a Neoliberal Age”“Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today”“Neoliberal Agency”Further reading“Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan” – Teri Silvio“Forms of Talk” – Erving Goffman“The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism” – Richard Sennett“The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain” – Francesca Sobande“The Strength of Weak Ties” – Mark S. Granovetter“Cutting the Network” – Marilyn StrathernAnd have a look at the basics of Actor–Network Theory.

Today we are continuing our discussion of ‘power words', terms that humans use to control the narratives of otherthanhuman lives. Today's term is ‘feral', and it is a contentious term, in our opinion. Our paper on this topic ‘Uncivilised Behaviors' was published last year in Society and Animals journal, and today we will unpack that paper in a discussion with our special guest and coauthor, Debbie Busby. Please subscribe to get notified about our next podcast! Follow us on Twitter: @TheAnthrozoopod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthrozoopod/ Follow us on TikTok @anthrozoology_ To access audio-only versions please our official Website: https://anthrozoopod.wixsite.com/anthrozoopod Podcrew: Dr. Kris Hill PhD Candidate, University of Exeter kh458@exeter.ac.uk https://katzenlife.wordpress.com/ Dr. Michelle Szydlowski ms835@exeter.ac.uk www.internationalelephants.org @intl_elephants Sarah Oxley Heaney PhD Student, University of Exeter sh750@exeter.ac.uk ​www.kissingsharks.com/ Podlet Guest: Debbie Busby Registered Clinical Animal Behaviourist for Horses and Dogs PhD Candidate, Manchester Metropolitan University deborah.busby@stu.mmu.ac.uk https://evolutionequine.wordpress.com/ References and Resources Merrian-Webster Dictionary Definition of “Feral” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feral#:~:text=%3A%20of%2C%20relating%20to%2C%20or,not%20domesticated%20or%20cultivated%20%3A%20wild Hill, K. Szydlowski, M. Oxley Heaney, S. Busby, D. (2022). Uncivilized behaviors: how humans wield “feral” to assert power (and control) over other species. Society & Animals. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10088 Hill, K. (2022). Feral and out of control: a moral panic over free-roaming cats? in Anthrozoology Studies: Animal Life and Human Culture, edited by I. Frasin, G. Bodi, S. Bulei, C. D. Vasiliu. Romania: Presa Universitară Clujeană. pp. 123-157. http://www.editura.ubbcluj.ro/bd/ebooks/pdf/3343.pdf Ingold, T. (2000). “From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations.” In The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. Edited by Tim Ingold. London, New York: Routledge. Mica, A. (2010). Moral Panic, Risk or Hazard Society — the Relevance of a Theoretical Model and Framings of " Maidan " Dogs in Chişinău and Bucharest. Sociological Review, 169, 41–56. Pauwels, A. (2003). Linguistic Sexism and Feminist Linguistic Activism. In J. Holmes & M. Meyerhoff (Eds.), The Handbook of Language and Gender (pp. 550–570). https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756942.ch24 Price, E. O. (2003). Animal Domestication and Behavior. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Szydlowski, M., Hill, K., Oxley Heaney, S., Hooper, J. (2022). Domestication and domination: human terminology as a tool for controlling otherthanhuman animal bodies. TRACE: Journal for Human-Animal Studies. 8(1). https://doi.org/10.23984/fjhas.110388

What makes “good” taste? Who decides? And what's it got to do with inequality? Sociologist Irmak Karademir Hazir grew up watching women in her parents' clothing boutique. She explains how her fascination for taste emerged from that and why talking about things like fashion, film and music is far from trivial – it's how we distinguish ourselves from others; how we're recognised, or dismissed.Irmak tells Rosie and Alexis how sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu have theorised “distinction”, showing how “highbrow” taste is decided by those with money and other kinds of capital. They also discuss the idea of the “cultural omnivore” and ask: Is what looks like broad consumption – of everything from opera to grime – just elitism in disguise?Plus: Why are Marvel blockbusters Irmak's “guilty pleasure”? Why is “symbolic violence” as scary as it sounds? And do we have a moral duty to be honest about our tastes?Guest: Irmak Karademir HazirHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Production Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the devastating earthquake in southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria.Episode ResourcesIrmak, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedThe movies of the “Marvel Cinematic Universe”John Waters' film “Hairspray”Agnès Jaoui's film “Le Goût des autres” (The Taste of Others)The BBC documentary series “Signs of the Times”From The Sociological Review“Feminism After Bourdieu” – Lisa Adkins and Bev Skeggs [special issue editors]“Aesthetic labour, class and taste: Mobility aspirations of middle-class women working in luxury-retail” – Bryan Boyle and Kobe De Keere“Taste the Joy: Food, Family, Women and Social Media” – Smriti SinghBy Irmak Karademir Hazir“Cultural Omnivorousness”“How (not) to feed young children: A class-cultural analysis of food parenting practices”“Do Omnivores Perform Class Distinction? A Qualitative Inspection of Culinary Tastes, Boundaries and Cultural Tolerance” (co-author: Nihal Simay Yalvaç)“Exploring patterns of children's cultural participation: parental cultural capitals and their transmission” (co-authors: Adrian Leguina and Francisco Azpitarte)Further reading and viewing“Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste” – Pierre Bourdieu “Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable” – Bev Skeggs“Reading ‘Race' in Bourdieu? Examining Black Cultural Capital Among Black Caribbean Youth in South London” – Derron Wallace“Stuart Hall: Selected Writings” – Catherine Hall and Bill Schwarz [book series editors]“Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile” – Sam Friedman“‘Anything But Heavy Metal': Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes” – Bethany Bryson“The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer“Follow the algorithm: An exploratory investigation of music on YouTube” – Massimo Airoldi, Davide Beraldo and Alessandro Gandini“Pretty Woman” – Garry Marshall [film director]“Marvel's Defenders of The Status Quo” – Pop Culture Detective

For the final episode of Season 2, we bring you a set of conversations about what Who do we think we are? achieves through dialogues with archival and social science research around migration and citizenship in the UK and beyond. We're joined by former guest, Bolaji Balogun (University of Sheffield) who reflects on what excited him about taking part the podcast and offers tips for future guests. Niamh Welby, our former student intern, describes on how working on the podcast opened her eyes to the power and presence of resistance to present-day immigration controls and why words matter when we talk about migration. Michael J Richardson (University of Newcastle) explains why and how he has been using the podcast in the classroom with his first year undergraduate students. We're also joined by his student Olivia Allerton who tells us what listening to the podcast has done for her knowledge and understanding and calls for the broader inclusion of podcasts on undergraduate reading lists.  Listen for recommendations, reflections on podcasts as a form of public engagement with social science and value in the classroom.  You can access the full transcripts for each episode over on our website Who do we think we are?    In this episode we cover …   1 Dialogue and  academic knowledge production  2 Podcasting and the public engagement with social science  3 Podcasts in the classroom    To find out more about …   Louisa Lim's podcast ‘The King of Kowloon'  Social Geographies, an introduction, by Michael J Richardson and his colleagues at the University of Newcastle  Scholarly Podcasting, we recommend Ian Cook's new book   Podcasts in the classroom, read Michaela's reflections for The Sociological Review blog    And don't forget to listen to our back catalogue!     Call to action  Follow the podcast on all major podcasting platforms or through our RSS Feed.   To find out more about Who do we think we are? On our website, Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.  

What does it mean to really listen in a society obsessed with spectacle? What's hidden when powerful people claim to “hear” or “give voice” to others? And what's at stake if we think that using fancy recording devices helps us to neatly capture “truth”?Les Back – author of “The Art of Listening” – tells Alexis and Rosie why listening to society is crucial, but cautions that there's nothing inherently superior about the hearing sense. Rather, we must “re-tune our ears to society” and listen responsibly, with care, and in doubt.Plus: why should we think critically before accepting invitations to “trust our senses”? And why do so many sociologists also happen to be musicians?Guest: Les BackHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesLes, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedHak Baker's song “Wobbles on Cobbles”John Cage's composition “4′33″”The “Walls to Bridges” initiativeHari Kunzru's novel “White Tears”From The Sociological Review“A Sociological Playlist” – Jack Halberstam“Listening to community: The aural dimensions of neighbouring” – Camilla Lewis“Loudly sing cuckoo: More-than-human seasonalities in Britain” – Andrew WhitehouseBy Les Back“The Art of Listening”“Tape Recorder 1”“Urban multiculture and xenophonophobia in London and Berlin” (co-authors: Agata Lisiak and Emma Jackson)“Trust Your Senses? War, Memory, and the Racist Nervous System”Further reading and viewing“Hustlers, Beats, and Others” – Ned Polsky“The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life” – Leah Basel“The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches” – W. E. B. Du Bois“Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black” – bell hooks“White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood” – Hazel Carby“Presentation fever and podium affects” – Yasmin Gunaratnam“Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course” – Murray SchaferAlso, have a look at the scholarly work of Paul Gilroy and Frantz Fanon, and the music of Evelyn Glennie.

In this supposedly “post-colonial” age, the idea of the native continues to be distorted and deployed, whether in Narendra Modi's India or calls for “British jobs for British workers”. How and why has this word – so powerful in the age of empire – lived on into the 21st century? Who gains? And how has it gone from being a term applied to those ruled over by colonisers, to a label chosen by people promoting their own interests against others?Nandita Sharma joins Alexis and Rosie to discuss all this and more, including the exclusionary logic at the heart of the post-colonial nation state. We further ask: how can true decolonisation occur if the very idea of the nation state still features colonial logic? Does it make the idea of decolonising the “national” curriculum an oxymoron?Also, Nandita exposes the assumptions revealed by researchers' fears of “going native”, and reflects on the idea of a borderless world. Plus: a celebration of Manuela Zechner's “Remembering Europe”.Guest: Nandita SharmaHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesNandita, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedManuela Zechner's film-essay “Remembering Europe”Nakkiah Lui's playwriting workSnotty Nose Rez Kids' songs' lyricsCathy Park Hong's book “Minor Feelings”Daša Drndić's book “Canzone Di Guerra”From The Sociological Review“Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated' citizens in post-Brexit Britain” – Georgia Spiliopoulos and Stephen Timmons“Securitized Citizens: Islamophobia, Racism and the 7/7 London Bombings” – Yasmin Hussain and Paul Bagguley“State containment and closure of gendered possibilities among a millennial generation: On not knowing Muslim young men” – Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris HaywoodDecolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On: The Sociological Review Annual Lecture – Linda Tuhiwai SmithBy Nandita Sharma“Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants”“Against National Sovereignty: The Postcolonial New World Order and the Containment of Decolonization”“No Borders As a Practical Political Project” (co-editors: Bridget Anderson and Cynthia Wright)Further readings“Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider” – Satnam Virdee“Return of a Native: Learning from the Land” – Vron Ware“Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire” – Akala“Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control” – Bridget Anderson“Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism” – Kwame Nkrumah “Decolonization is not a metaphor” – Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang“Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” – Linda Tuhiwai SmithFrederick Cooper's work on how people fought against subordination in the French empireGurminder Bhambra's work on Decolonizing Whiteness

Emojis! Feminism! Rage! Sociologist Billy Holzberg joins us to talk about emotion. Why is it dismissed as an obstacle to progress and clear thinking – and to whose benefit? How can we let anger into politics without sanctioning far-right violence? And why are some of us freer than others to play with emotional abjection? Billy reflects on all this and more with Alexis and Rosie, celebrating thinkers from Sara Ahmed to Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois to Yasmin Gunaratnam.Billy also reflects on queerness, childhood and shame; the emotional precarity of TV's Fleabag; the playfulness of emojis; and the desperate but subversive power of the hunger striker. Plus: a welcome clarification of the slippery line between affect and emotion.Guest: Billy HolzbergHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesBilly, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedJim Hubbard's documentary “United in Anger: A history of ACT UP”The idea of thinking sociologically with EmojisRobert Munsch and Sheila McGraw's children's book “Love You Forever”Lesley Jamison's essay collection “The Empathy Exams”From The Sociological Review“Everyone shows emotions everywhere but class photos” – Laura Harris“‘Serenity Now!' Emotion management and solidarity in the workplace” – Jordan McKenzie, et al.“Diane Abbott, misogynoir and the politics of Black British feminism's anticolonial imperatives: ‘In Britain too, it's as if we don't exist'” – Lisa Amanda PalmerBy Billy Holzberg“The Multiple Lives of Affect: A Case Study of Commercial Surrogacy”“‘Wir schaffen das': Hope and hospitality beyond the humanitarian border”“The affective life of heterosexuality: heteropessimism and postfeminism in Fleabag” (co-author: Aura Lehtonen)Further readings“The Cultural Politics of Emotion” – Sara Ahmed“Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care” – Yasmin Gunaratnam“Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844” – Karl Marx “Postcolonial Melancholia” – Paul Gilroy“The Souls of Black Folk” – W.E.B. Du BoisThe work of psychologist Paul Ekman“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” – Audre Lorde“The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy” – Ala Sirriyeh“Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy” – Carolyn Pedwell“The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity” – Ashjan Ajour“On Heteropessimism” – Asa Seresin

Lonely? Mean? Hostile? Cities get a bad rap. But why? Romit Chowdhury has lived in cities worldwide; from Kolkata to Rotterdam. He tells Alexis and Rosie about the wonder of urban “enchantment” found in a stranger's smile, our changing ideas of the “urban”, and why anonymity is not always in fact the enemy of civility and friendship in the city.Plus: how did “walking the city” emerge as a revolutionary research method? And why is Romit so fascinated with public transport – from exploring auto-rickshaw drivers' masculinity in Kolkata, to studying sexual violence on the busy trains of Tokyo.Romit, Alexis and Rosie also share their tips for thinking differently about urban life – from Japanese film to novels that explode norms about bodies in the city.Guest: Romit ChowdhuryHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesRomit, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedClaudia Piñeiro's novel “Elena Knows”N. K. Jemisin's book “The City We Became”Shinya Tsukamoto's filmographyTeju Cole's novel “Every Day is For the Thief”From The Sociological Review“Karachi” – Shama Dossa“Whose City Now?” – Ray Forrest“Trash Talk: Unpicking the deadlock around urban waste and regeneration” – Francisco Calafate-Faria“Rising with the Rooster: How urban chickens are relaxing the pace of life” – Catherine OliverBy Romit Chowdhury“Sexual assault on public transport: Crowds, nation, and violence in the urban commons”“The social life of transport infrastructures: Masculinities and everyday mobilities in Kolkata”“Density as urban affect: The enchantment of Tokyo's crowds”Further readings“Dangerous Liaisons – Women and Men: Risk and Reputation in Mumbai” – Shilpa Phadke“For Space” – Doreen Massey“The Metropolis and Mental Life” – Georg Simmel“The Arcades Project” – Walter Benjamin “Delhi Crime” (TV series) – Richie Mehta“The Country and the City” – Raymond Williams“Why Women of Colour in Geography?” – Audrey Kobayashi“‘Delhi is a hopeful place for me!': young middle-class women reclaiming the Indian city” – Syeda Jenifa Zahan“The Way They Blow the Horn: Caribbean Dollar Cabs and Subaltern Mobilities” – Asha Best“Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City” – Brandi Thompson SummersAnd the work of Ayona Datta, Linda McDowell, Patricia Noxolo, Linda Peake, Tracey Skelton, Andrea Roberts and Gill Valentine

We each have a body, but every body's story is unique. In this intimate conversation, sociologist Charlotte Bates tells Alexis and Rosie why studying bodies – and how we talk about them – matters in a society where some are privileged over others, and why ableism harms us all.Charlotte talks about her co-authored work on wild swimming, arguing that despite its commodification, it holds subversive power. She also considers how the unwell body collides with the demands of capitalist life – revealing just how absurd it can be. Plus: what “wellness” fails to capture – and why health is not a lifestyle choice.Guest: Charlotte BatesHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesCharlotte, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedNina Mingya Powles' book “Small Bodies of Water”Andy Jackson's poem “The Change Room”Viktoria Modesta's song “Prototype”Mark O'Connell's book “To Be A Machine”From The Sociological Review“Making Visible: Chronic Illness and the Academy” – Anna Ruddock“Race and Disability in the Academy” – Moya Bailey“Embodying Sociology” [Supplement Issue]By Charlotte Bates“Vital Bodies: Living with Illness”“Conviviality, disability and design in the city”Research on wild swimming with Kate Moles – including this article and this forthcoming publication.Further readings“Beyond the Periphery of the Skin” – Silvia Federici“Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s” – Donna Haraway“Moving Beyond Pain” – bell hooks“On Being Ill” – Virginia Woolf“Believing Your Pain as Radical Self-Care” – Jameisha Prescod (in this publication)“Wellness Culture is Ableism in Sheep's Clothing” – Lucy Pasha-RobinsonThe Polluted Leisure Project – Clifton Evers and James DavollThe Moving Oceans project“Illness: The Cry of the Flesh” – Havi Carel Alexandre Baril's scholarly work“Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure” – Samantha Walton“Why climate justice is impossible without racial justice” – Georgia WhitakerOn maternal mortality – Divya Talwar

EDUCATORS! STUDENTS! LISTENERS! We want to hear from you ...We're taking a short summer break, and will be back in September ready and refreshed for the new term, and with a new episode for you!So, while Rosie and Alexis have some well-earned time-outs – and catch up on reading for forthcoming shows on things like cities, emotion and noise – we have a request: Could you use just a few of those spare 45 minutes this month to share some of your thoughts with us? To be precise, we'd like to know how we can help you ...If you're an educator – at whatever level – we'd like to know, do you use podcasts in your teaching? If so, how? And which ones? Maybe you've even asked your students to make their own? And if you don't use them, then why not? What gets in the way of that? And how could Uncommon Sense do more to help you to promote and explain the sociological imagination?And if you're a student or a researcher, we want to know what Uncommon Sense has done for you so far? Has it made you think about how you explain your work to non-academic friends? Maybe even that most challenging of audiences, your parents!?And if you're neither of the above, you're still very much part of the Uncommon Sense community! We want to know what keeps you listening? And whether we've prompted you to "see the world afresh through the eyes of sociologists"? That's what we promise at the top of pretty much every episode ...Share your thoughts with us by email, by Instagram, and on Twitter. You can also read all about using podcasts in the classroom from The Sociological Review's podcast lead Professor Michaela Benson.And recommend us to friends, family and more. It's easy to subscribe – look us up in whatever app you use and tap "follow"!We'll be back in September – See you soon!

Too often, talk about security seems to belong to politicians and psychologists; to discussions about terrorism and defence, individual anxiety and insecurity. But how do sociologists think about it? And why care?Daria Krivonos – who works on migration, race and class in Central and Eastern Europe – tells Alexis and Rosie why security matters. What's the impact of calling migration a “security threat”? How does the security of the privileged rely on the insecurity of the precarious? And, as Russia's war in Ukraine continues, what would it mean to truly #StandwithUkraine – from ensuring better job security for its workers abroad, to cancelling its debt?Plus: pop culture pointers; from Kae Tempest's “People's Faces” to the movie “The Mauritanian” – and Alexis' teenage passion for Rage Against the Machine.Guest: Daria KrivonosHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesDaria, Rosie and Alexis recommendedKae Tempest's song “People's Faces”Rage Against the Machine's song “Without a Face”Kevin Macdonald's movie “The Mauritanian”From The Sociological Review“Brexit On ‘Plague Island': Fortifying The UK's Borders In Times Of Crisis” – Michaela Benson and Nando Sigona“Organised State Abandonment: The meaning of Grenfell” – Brenna Bhandar“Food Insecurity: Upsetting ‘Apple Carts' in Abstract and Tangible Markets” – Susan Marie MartinBy Daria Krivonos“The making of gendered ‘migrant workers' in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland”“Ukrainian farm workers and Finland's regular army of labour”“Who stands with Ukraine in the long term?”“Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw” (forthcoming)Further readings“The Death of Asylum” – Alison Mountz“What was the so-called ‘European Refugee Crisis'?” – Danish Refugee CouncilWorld Food Programme Yemen and Ethiopia statistics“In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All” – UN Secretary-General“Ukrainian Workers Flee ‘Modern Slavery' Conditions on UK Farms” – Diane Taylor“Bordering” – Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn CassidyAnthony Giddens' sociological work; including “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”

Think of intimacy and, pretty soon, you'll probably think about sex. But, as sociologist Katherine Twamley explains, intimacy means much more than that: it's woven through so many of our relationships – including with people whose names we might not even know. She tells Rosie and Alexis how an accidental trip to India got her thinking about the varied meanings of “love” across cultures and contexts, and reflects on whether, to quote the famous song, love and marriage really do “go together like a horse and carriage”.Plus: what could it mean to decolonise love? Why should we be wary of acts performed in the name of love? Will we ever live in a truly “contactless” world, and who wants that? And we get intimate with the artist Sophie Calle.Guest: Katherine TwamleyHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesKatherine, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedIan McEwan's novel “Machines Like Me”Haruhiko Kawaguchi's photographySophie Calle's conceptual artAlex Thompson's film “Saint Frances”From The Sociological Review“The Sociology of Love” – Julia CarterOn asexual people and intimacy – Matt Dawson, Liz McDonnell and Susie Scott On the phenomenon of self-marriage – Kinneret Lahad and Michal Karvel-ToviFurther readings“Love, Marriage and Intimacy Among Gujarati Indians” – Katherine Twamley“Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship” – Kath Weston“Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care” – Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (editors)On Emotional Labour – Arlie Hochschild“Decolonising Families and Relationships” – British Sociological Association webinars“Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds” – Zygmunt Bauman“Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences” – Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim and Ulrich BeckNandita Dutta's research on South Asian beauty salons in London as diasporic sites of intimacyNick Crossley's sociological workJessica Ringrose's sociological workGreta Thunberg's Twitter page (mentioned by Katherine as an intimacy example)James Baldwin's novel “Giovanni's Room”Sally Rooney's novel “Normal People”

School should be about play, fulfilment and learning. But it is also a place of surveillance, discipline and discrimination. Activist scholar Remi Joseph-Salisbury has researched policing, racism and education in the UK. He tells Rosie and Alexis what happens when policing enters the classroom, its impact on students and teachers of colour, and the need for wholesale reform – including a truly anti-racist curriculum.Plus: how can we break the “school-to-prison” pipeline? What is Critical Race Theory and why has it prompted a backlash? What does it mean to really receive “an education”? And what's the harm in the trope of the “inspirational super teacher”, as found in films from Sister Act to Dead Poets Society?This episode was recorded prior to news being made public of the experience of the pupil known as “Child Q”, reported in mid-March 2022. Remi has since written about this.Guest: Remi Joseph-SalisburyHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesRemi, Rosie and Alexis recommendedJohn Agard's poem  “Checking Out Me History”Steve McQueen's TV drama “Small Axe: Education”Laurie Nunn's TV series “Sex Education”Jesse Thistle's memoir “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way”From The Sociological ReviewOn “Prevent”, a counter-extremism policy at UK universities Niyousha Bastani “Social Mixing in Urban Schools” Sumi Hollingworth“School-to-Prison Pipeline” Karen GrahamBy Remi Joseph-Salisbury“Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools”“Afro Hair: How Pupils Are Tackling Discriminatory Uniform Policies”On the demonisation of Critical Race TheoryFurther reading“Racism and Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy?” David Gillborn “Race, Gender and Educational Desire: Why Black Women Succeed and Fail” Heidi Mirza“Lammy Review” MP David Lammy“How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System” Bernard CoardThe Halo Collective for a future without hair discriminationNo More Exclusions for racial justice in education

Home means something to everyone. More than just bricks and mortar, it's about security and belonging, citizenship and exclusion. Michaela Benson has researched it all: from the UK's self-build communities, to people seeking a new lifestyle abroad. She tells Alexis and Rosie about this and her own experience of home, including her mother's relationship to her place of birth: Hong Kong.Plus, Kwame Lowe and Alice Grahame introduce us to the Rural Urban Synthesis Society in London. What does it take to build your own “Grand Design” and why would anyone want to do that? What happens when areas become known as “problem places” and what's gentrification got to do with it? And who is to blame for the housing crisis?Guests: Michaela Benson, Kwame Lowe, Alice GrahameHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerSpecial thanks to: Kirsteen Paton, Lisa Dikomitis, RUSSUncommon Sense sees our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review, it's a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, featuring a different guest each month, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone.Episode ResourcesMichaela, Rosie and Alexis recommend:“Fragile Monsters” (2021) by Catherine Menon“Unsheltered” (2018) by Barbara Kingsolver“Foundation” (1942) by Isaac AsimovFrom The Sociological Review:“Unhomely Homes: A visual study of Airbnb” (2020) by Kenneth Kajoranta and Anna PechurinaOn older New Zealanders and the role of home for feeling secure in an uncertain world (1998) by Ann Dupuis and David ThornsA critical review of the existing literature on “home” (2004) by Shelley MallettFurther readings:On being middle-class in contemporary London (2017) by Michaela Benson and Emma JacksonOn Brexit's hidden costs for Britons living in the EU (2021) by Michaela BensonThe Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) Lewisham, London“Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective” (2014) by Kirsteen Paton“Your Life Chances Affect Where You Live: A Critique of the ‘Cottage Industry' of Neighbourhood Effects Research” (2013) by Tom Slater“Cyprus and Its Places of Desire: Cultures of Displacement Among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees” (2012) edited by Lisa Dikomitis“Walters Way and Segal Close: The Architect Walter Segal and London's Self-Build Community” (2017) by Alice GrahameThe film “Minari” (2020) directed by Lee Isaac ChungChris Leslie's work on demolition and regeneration in GlasgowRead our acknowledgement of the indigenous lands that both Rosie and Alexis work upon.Find more at The Sociological Review.

What does care really mean? For feminist sociologist Bev Skeggs, it should be at the heart of how we organise our society – from tax to health, to climate action. She talks to Alexis and Rosie about the costs of complacency, her own shocking experience of care (or lack of it) as her own parents faced the end of life, and why we have every right to expect the state to look after us. Care, she shows, is political: there's no care without society; no society without care.Plus, Bev casts a sideways glance at “self-care” and explains why browsing a sociology textbook might just be better for you than a trip to a pricey spa. The team also discusses their recommendations for pop culture lessons in care – from Adrienne Rich to Robin Williams.Guest: Bev SkeggsHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerSpecial thanks to: Kirsteen PatonUncommon Sense sees our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review, it's a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, featuring a different guest each month, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone.Episode ResourcesBev, Rosie and Alexis recommend:TV adaptations (various; 1993-2001; 2019) of Armistead Maupin's “Tales of the City” novels (1974-2014)“Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution” (1976) by Adrienne RichThe movie “What Dreams May Come” (1998), dir. Vincent Ward, starring Robin WilliamsFrom The Sociological Review:“A Crisis in Humanity: What Everyone With Parents Is Likely to Face in the Future” (2017) by Bev SkeggsOn radical care (2020) by Dan Silver and Sarah Marie HallOn caring for plants during Covid-19 (2020) by Gavin MacleanOn care, activism and environmental justice in Chile (2017) by Manuel Tironi and Israel Rodríguez-GiraltOn love labour as a particular kind of care (2007) by Kathleen LynchFurther readings:“Formations of Class and Gender” (1997) by Bev Skeggs“Learning to Labour” (1977) by Paul Willis“The Care Manifesto” (2020) by The Care CollectiveThe Women's Budget GroupSolidarity and Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020), a public platform by The Sociological Review“Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help” (2008) by Eva Illouz“Who Will Care for the Caretaker's Daughter? Towards a Sociology of Happiness in the Era of Reflexive Modernity” (1997) by Eva Illouz“Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class” (2001) by Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody“A Burst of Light” (1988) by Audre Lorde“Self-Help, Media Cultures and the Production of Female Psychopathology” (2004) by Lisa Blackman“It's Different for Girls: Gendering the Audience for Popular Music” (2000) by Diane RailtonFind more at The Sociological Review.

This is Uncommon Sense, the podcast that sees our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review, it's a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, featuring a different guest each month, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone.Hosts: Alexis Hieu Truong, Rosie HancockFeatured Guests: Bev Skeggs, Michaela BensonExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin Aniker

How did changes in the UK's immigrations laws in the 1960s and 1970s set the stage for the Windrush deportation scandal? What can we learn about the racialised politics of belonging and migration in Britain today from looking at the historical transformation of immigration legislation? In this episode, we look at how immigration controls were introduced in ways that explicitly restricted the movement to and settlement in the UK of Britain's racialised colonial citizens. Host Michaela Benson explains how changes in law which made some British citizens deportable from the UK and how these transformations in law were caught up in the transformation of Britain's colonies in nation-states, how the shifting relationships between Britain and its former colonies led to some people falling between the gaps as Britain tried to restrict the settlement of their own citizens. George Kalivis goes back into the archive to remind us of the history of deportation, highlighting how deportation was introduced through the Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962 to permit the deportation from the UK for those from Britain's colonies who were convicted of offences punishable with imprisonment. And they are joined by Elsa Oommen, independent scholar and visiting researcher at Goldsmiths and the University of Warwick, to discuss in more detail the historical back story to the Windrush Deportation Scandal; the legislative changes which mean that some colonial citizens living in the UK had their right to abode in the UK, their rights systematically eroded witout their knowledge; the litany of mistakes that led to the devastating and deadly effects for their lives and well-being in the context of the Hostile Environment; and what this can tell us about how questions of citizenship and migration are caught up in the contemporary politics of belonging in Britain.    Access the full episode transcript In this episode we cover … The historical back story to the Windrush Deportation Scandal The Commonwealth Immigration Acts of the 1960s and 1970s How Britain's colonial citizens were made deportable and why this matters for making sense of the racialisation at the heart of questions of migration and belonging in Britain today Quote What has been quite stark to me is how the Government can go to extreme lengths in ensuring that some people are always made to belong and how some citizens, or some people could be citizens from the get-go, but could be made to feel like they are nothing and deportable; this what is the most striking revelation from my ongoing research, that there is really a continuum in which you can be a Commonwealth citizen but you can always be treated as a Commonwealth migrant. — Elsa Oommen   Where can you find out more about the topics in today's episode? To find out more about the Windrush Deportation Scandal, we recommend consulting Wendy Williams' Windrush Lessons Learned Review. You can find out more about Elsa and her research here. Her research funded by The Sociological Review with long-term Caribbean residents in the UK and the historical back story to the Hostile Environment is still in progress. Her wider research focuses on youth mobility to the UK, a part of the immigration regime that has not received much notice. You can read her work about the experiences of youth mobility workers in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. We'd also like to recommend her recent piece for Discover Society, which considered the Youth Mobility Scheme as a route to settlement in the UK for young Hong Kongers leaving HK SAR in the wake of political oppression. Our recommended reading of the week is Kathleen Paul's 1997 book Whitewashing Britain, and in particular Chapter 5 Keeping Britain White.   Call to action You can subscribe to the podcast on all major podcasting platforms or through our RSS Feed. To find out more about Who do we think we are?, including news, events and resources, visit our blog and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

In this event, John Holmwood and Gurminder K Bhambra discuss their new book, Colonialism & Modern Social Theory. About this event Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy. In Colonialism & Modern Social Theory, Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address this absence by examining the role of colonialism in the development of modern society and the legacies it has bequeathed. Beginning with a consideration of the role of colonialism and empire in the formation of social theory from Hobbes to Hegel, the authors go on to focus on the work of Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Du Bois. As well as unpicking critical omissions and misrepresentations, the chapters discuss the places where colonialism is acknowledged and discussed – albeit inadequately – by these founding figures; and we come to see what this fresh rereading has to offer and why it matters. This inspiring and insightful book argues for a reconstruction of social theory that should lead to a better understanding of contemporary social thought, its limitations, and its wider possibilities. In this event, Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood are in dialogue with Michaela Benson and Su-ming Khoo and respond to questions and comments relating to the book and to the canon of modern social theory itself. Authors: Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, a Trustee at the Sociological Review Foundation, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is co-editor of Discover Society, an online social research magazine, and editor of Global Social Theory. She is author of the prize-winning Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination and Connected Sociologies. She is also co-editor of Decolonising the University and the Project Director of the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project. John Holmwood is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He was expert witness for the defence in misconduct cases brought against senior teachers falsely accused of a plot to Islamicise schools in Birmingham. Together with Therese O'Toole, he is author of Countering Extremism in Birmingham Schools? The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair (Policy Press, 2018). Discussants Professor Michaela Benson is a sociologist with expertise in migration, citizenship and identity. In particular, her research focuses on Britishness and belonging among Britain's emigrants and overseas citizens at moments of major political transformation including Brexit and decolonisation. Her current position as Professor of Public Sociology at Lancaster University (from 1 June 2021), builds on nearly twenty years of teaching in universities around the UK and her service since 2016 as Editor-in-Chief of The Sociological Review. She has published several academic monographs including The British in Rural France (Manchester University Press, 2011), and Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama (co-authored with Karen O'Reilly; Palgrave, 2018) and numerous journal articles. In recent years, she has developed a profile as a public social science communicator, with a portfolio that includes freelance writing for major outlets, public speaking, and podcasting. Her current research for the project Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit (MIGZEN) is funded by the ESRC. Dr Su-ming Khoo is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology, and leads the Environment, Development and Sustainability (Whitaker Institute) and Socio-Economic Impact (Ryan Institute) Research Clusters at NUI Galway. She researches and teaches on human rights, human development, public goods, development alternatives, decoloniality, global activism, and higher education. This event is hosted by the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project which seeks to make available open access resources for the teaching of sociology. It emerges out of discussions about the need to broaden our understandings of the past – to be inclusive of colonial and imperial histories – in developing our understandings of the present. The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is funded by the Sociological Review Foundation.

Alexander Filippov, Ph.D., Professor of the Faculty of Humanities of the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Head of the Laboratory Centre for Fundamental Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics; Editor-in-Chief of the Sociological Review journal. He passed Ph.D.(philosophy) at the Institute for Sociological Researches of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1984); fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bielefeld, FRG (1990); professor, dean of the faculty of sociology, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (1995–2014); Doctor of sciences in sociology (MGIMO University) (2004). Research areas: history of sociology, general sociological theory, sociology of space, political philosophy, philosophical problems of sovereignty and international law. Publications: Sociology of Space (monograph, 2008), Sociologia (collection of papers, 2014-2015), translations of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Niklas Luhmann et al. FIND ALEXANDER ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook | VKontakte ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Alexander Filippov, Ph.D., Professor of the Faculty of Humanities of the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Head of the laboratory Centre for Fundamental Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics; Editor-in-Chief of the Sociological Review journal.He passed Ph.D.(philosophy) at the Institute for Sociological Researches of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1984); fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bielefeld, FRG (1990); professor, dean of the faculty of sociology, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (1995–2014); Doctor of sciences in sociology (MGIMO University) (2004).Research areas: history of sociology, general sociological theory, sociology of space, political philosophy, philosophical problems of sovereignty and international law. Publications: Sociology of Space (monograph, 2008), Sociologia (collection of papers, 2014-2015), translations of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Niklas Luhmann et al.FIND ALEXANDER ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook | VKontakte

On this week's episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr. Matt Mahmoudi, who just completed his PhD in Development Studies at Cambridge University as a Jo Cox scholar of Refugee and Migration Studies. They talked about Matt's research about how technology is affecting migrant and refugee communities in New York City and Berlin, how seemingly innocuous technology, like free WiFi kiosks, can become de facto digital borders, what racial capitalism can tell us about Shoshana Zuboff's “surveillance capitalism”, and if a decolonial neo-Luddite approach to tech is possible. Plus, why New York City should ban police use of facial recognition scan. A rough transcript of this episode is available here.Articles and scholars mentioned in this podcastA post by Matt on his research on The Sociological Review, Race in the Digital Periphery: The New (Old) Politics of Refugee RepresentationBooks:On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance by Cedric J. RobinsonExtrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller EasterlingRace Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class by Robin KelleyNotes Towards a Neo-Luddite Manifesto by Chellis GlendinningThe Invention of the Passport by John TorpeyUtopia for Realists by Rutger BregmanTwo Cheers for Anarchism by James ScottArticlesLeaked Location Data Shows Another Muslim Prayer App Tracking UsersWe Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State (review by John Naughton)The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang (review by Alina Utrata)PodcastPrevious Anti-Dystopians podcast on gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalismMore information about Amnesty's campaign to #BanTheScanNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Matthew talks to Professor Nicola Ingram. Nicola is Professor of Sociology and Education at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research is focused on young people and social inequalities in education and work. She has published widely on these issues and her recent books include: Working-Class Boys and Educational Success: Teenage Identities, Masculinities and Urban Schooling (Palgrave MacMillan 2018); Educational Choices, Aspirations and Transitions in Europe (Routledge 2018); Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: the Degree Generation (Palgrave MacMillan 2016); and Moving on Up? Unequal Graduate Labour Market Struggles (Bristol University Press, Forthcoming). Nicola is co-founder and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's (BSA) Bourdieu Study Group, and co-convenor of the BSA Sociology of Education Study Group. She is on the editorial board of the Sociological Review, Sociology and the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Sara Salem joined the LSE as an Assistant Professor in 2018. Her main research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and global histories of empire and imperialism. She is an editor at the journals Sociological Review and Historical Materialism, and can be found on Twitter at @saramsalem. Our next book club meeting will take place on February 9th. It will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on February 9th (@ 7 pm EST) and will be reading Shapeshifters by Aimee Meredith Cox.Sign Up Here A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS

Bolaji (Bob) joined us to talk through histories of Poland's colonial extraction and the impact of whiteness, religion and (polish) centrism on racialisation and racism. *We want to be clear that we understand and do not make light of Jewish persecution in Poland. We are always looking to improve our racial literacy especially in relation to Jewish populations across the world* Useful papers/links: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/people/academic-staff/bolaji-balogun Balogun, B. (2018) ‘Polish Lebensraum: The Colonial Ambition to Expand on Racial terms', Ethnic & Racial Studies, 41: 14, pp. 2561-2579. Balogun, B. (2020) ‘Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism', The Sociological Review. pp. 1-16. Balogun, B. (forthcoming) ‘The Racial Contract, The Whiteness Contract'

In this final episode of series 1 (we will be back next year) of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Morteza Hashemi about the great Arabic scholar Ibn Khaldun. See the end of this post for links to the episode. Khaldun was around in the 14th and 15th century and lived and traveled across the Islamic world including Tunisia, Egypt and Andalusia. Khaldun is a hugely important thinker who has sadly been underappreciated in many parts of the world. The innovative critical and philosophical approach to history he took revealed sociological insights which would not be matched or built on for at least four centuries. In this chat we focus on some of his most important analysis which focuses on the movement from nomadic to settled communities and how these different social forms produce different kinds of societies. Morteza also tells me about some of his own excellent work which has applied Khaldun's analysis to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg. He suggests such tech giants might have become too “settled” and might be leaving themselves open to becoming unseated by more entrepreneurial upstarts. This article was published in The Sociological Review (also available open access). Probably Khaldun's most influential work (and the one we mostly refer to) is The Muqaddimah or “The Introduction” which is available online. Below are some of the other books Morteza mentioned in the episode. The Orange Trees of Marrakesh by Stephen Dale Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner Applying Ibn Khaldun by Syed Farid Alatas Apologies, there are a few minor sound issues. Hopefully these aren't too painful as they are just tiny cuts in the sound. Theme music is Wirklich Wichtig by Checkie Brown used on a Creative Commons license Incidental music is Disco Stomp by Jonas78 used on a Creative Commons license You can follow me on Twitter @chrishtill The Social Theory Podcast will be back in 2021!

Florence Ashley, “A Critical Commentary On ‘Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria'” (2020) 68:4 The Sociological Review 779–799 The term ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria' (ROGD) was coined in 2016 to describe an alleged epidemic of youth coming out as trans ‘out of the blue' due to social contagion and mental illness. The term reflects a deliberate attempt to weaponise scientific-sounding language to dismiss mounting empirical evidence of the benefits of transition. This article offers an introduction to the theory of ROGD and its history, presents a detailed critique of the empirical and theoretical claims associated with the theory, and highlights structural concerns with the ROGD discourse. The article argues that claims associated with ROGD, including assertions of declining mental health and degrading familial relationships following coming out, are best explained by the leading ROGD study's recruitment of parents from transantagonistic websites against a background of growing visibility and social acceptance of trans people. ROGD theory is best understood as an attempt to circumvent existing research demonstrating the importance of gender affirmation, relying on scientific-sounding language to achieve respectability. (Link to PDF version)

Bev Skeggs joined us to talk about the launch of the Sociological Review's new public platform - Solidarity and Care During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Useful links- https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/introducing-solidarity-and-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://www.solidarityandcare.org/ Useful stats- Data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), found black males are 4.2 times more likely to die from a COVID-19-related death and black females are 4.3 times more likely than those of white ethnicity . Males in the Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnicity group are 1.8 times more likely to have a coronavirus related death than white males and females 1.6 times more than white women. The age-standardised mortality rate of deaths involving COVID-19 in the most deprived areas of England was 55.1 deaths per 100,000 population compared with 25.3 deaths per 100,000 population in the least deprived areas Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Chantelle and Tissot reflect on academic podcasting and the politics of audio (and visual) representations when trying to produce anti-racist content. This episode was recorded as part Politics of Representation Collective conference - The Visual and Critical Representation in an Age of Impact supported by the Sociological Review and University of Cambridge Education faculty. With thanks to Sharon Walker, Rebecca Gordon, Lakshmi Bose & Arif Naveed. Useful links- politicsofrepresentationcollective.org/ www.thesociologicalreview.com/category/c…sentation/

How can academics use social media in a meaningful way? Is there a way of us working against neo-liberal habits in our use of it as academics? Mark Carrigan helps us think through epistemology, scholarship and labour. This episode was recorded as part Politics of Representation Collective conference - The Visual and Critical Representation in an Age of Impact supported by the Sociological Review and University of Cambridge Education faculty. With thanks to Sharon Walker, Rebecca Gordon, Lakshmi Bose & Arif Naveed. Useful links- https://politicsofrepresentationcollective.org/ https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/category/collections/politics-of-representation/ https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/social-media-for-academics/book261904 https://markcarrigan.net

Guest Hosts - Dr Debbie Bargallie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of the North-West and Upper Hunter Valley regions of New South Wales, Australia. Her doctoral thesis is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Stanner Award, and will be published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 2020 as Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous voices on racism in the Australian Public Service. She is currently a Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Dr Alana Lentin is Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is a European and West Asian Jewish woman who is a settler on Gadigal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. Her new book Why Race Still Matters is out in the UK in April 2020 (Polity). She is a graduate of the European University Institute where she earned her PhD in political and social sciences in 2002, and the London School of Economics (1997). Prior to joining the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sussex University (2006-2012). Before this she held a Marie Curie EC Research Fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (2003-2005). In 2017, she was the Hans Speier Visiting Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York and has previously been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin (2010). She is co-editor of the Rowman and Littlefield International book series, Challenging Migration Studies and former President of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association (2017-20). She is on the editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities, Journal of Australian Studies, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, and the Pluto Books series, Vagabonds. Her current research examines the interplay between race and digital technology and social media. Her most recent research project analysed the use of ‘antiracism apps' for education and intervention. Recent books include The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age (with Gavan Titley 2011) and Racism and Sociology (2014 with Wulf D. Hund). She has written for The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, ABC Religion and Ethics, The Conversation, Sociological Review and Public Seminar. She has been interviewed for The Minefield on ABC Radio National, local ABC radio, Japanese television and Korean radio among others. She teaches a Masters course, Understanding Race which is accompanied by a series of blogs and an open syllabus available at http://www.alanalentin.net/teaching/. Her personal website where she blogs extensively is www.alanalentin.net

Chloe talks through her PhD research where she has been interviewing civil servants; prosecutors, judges, defence lawyers, magistrates and probation services who were directly involved in the criminal justice response to the unlawful killing of Mark Duggan and the subsequent riots that followed in 2011. Useful links- Michael Gove's rhetoric on prisons -http://research.gold.ac.uk/23722/1/Chloe%20Peacock%202017%20Curative%2C%20regenerating%2C%20redemptive%20and%20liberating_.pdf) OpenDemocracy article on riots and regeneration: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opensecurity/territorial-stigma-and-regeneration-in-tottenham/ Sociological Review blog on logic of punishment and links to logic of debt: https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/reflecting-on-the-moral-economies-of-debt-and-punishment/

Stigma machines: Imogen talks us through the way the state continues to use stigmatisation to justify harmful policies like austerity. Go to the Sociological Review website to read more about Imogen's work on stigma: https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/from-stigma-power-to-black-power-a-graphic-essay.html Special thanks to Aaron Winter, Nasar Meer and the BSA for the support and funding that made our trip to Glasgow possible!

Welcome to another *live* episode of Surviving Society! In our third and final collaboration with The Sociological Review, our #1 fan Dr Michaela Benson interviews Saskia, Chantelle and Tissot about podcasting, public sociology, and how we've helped each other to survive our PhDs. With our lovely audience of fellow PhD students and early career researchers, we discuss why we see sociology as an activist discipline, and the importance of harnessing your rage when you're doing social research. Thank you so much to everyone in the audience for coming along and being so engaged, and an extra big thank you to Michaela for all her help and support! As always, we're angry, we're sweary, we're laughing, and we're super grateful to everyone who has made this panel, the podcast and our studies possible. Edited by Art of Podcast Recorded in Gateshead at The Sociological Review conference, June 2018 Special thanks to Michaela Benson and everyone at The Sociological Review

What do people mean when they talk about the 'smart city', and can the smart city ever be inclusive? In our second episode recorded in collaboration with The Sociological Review, Chantelle, Tissot and Saskia talk to Dr Ayona Datta about her work on urban transformations in Indian cities. Ayona argues that we need to be skeptical about whether smart cities can really address deep-rooted inequalities - smart water meters are useless if there's no infrastructure for clean running water. Tissot tells us about the creative uses of smart technology by homeless people living in London's financial district, showing that, although digital divides run across class lines, smart technology can change our cities in unplanned and exciting ways. Warning: This episode contains some academic jargon. Edited by Art of Podcast Recorded in Gateshead at The Sociological Review conference, June 2018 Special thanks to Michaela Benson and everyone at The Sociological Review

In the first of our collaborations with The Sociological Review, Professor Satnam Virdee talks to Tissot, Chantelle and Saskia about the importance of ‘race' when it comes to understanding class and capitalism. Satnam argues that, looking at the last three centuries of capitalism in Britain and its empire, we can see that ‘‘race' and nation, when it comes to thinking about Britain, run hand in hand'. As informative about the current political moment as he is about histories of capitalism, we especially love Satnam's challenge to the idea that Britain was ever a ‘white' nation, and the hope he offers about the role migrants can and have played in the democratisation of our society. Warning: This episode contains some academic jargon. Edited by Art of Podcast Recorded in Gateshead at The Sociological Review conference, June 2018 Special thanks to Michaela Benson and everyone at The Sociological Review