The Sociological Review

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Jenny Lee Interview

Apr 30 2024 20 mins

This is an audio interview between Charlie Rumbsy and Jenny Lee to accompany the article by Jenny for the June issue of the Sociological Review magazine on Parenting. The interview was conducted and edited by Charlie Rumsby.

Annual Lecture 2018 Unthinking Sociology And Overcoming Its History Deficit

Dec 14 2023 81 mins

Our Annual Lecture 2018 took place at the Undisciplining conference, with Professor Satnam Virdee (University of Glasgow) and with responses from Dr Sivamohan Valluvan (University of Warwick) and Professor Bev Skeggs (London School of Economics and Political Science). Undergirded by the perspective of historical materialism in dialogue with black Marxism and Marxist feminism, thi

Decolonising Methodologies, 20 years on: An interview with Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Dec 13 2023 51 mins

In October 2019, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, gave the Sociological Review Annual Lecture in London. This marked twenty years since the publication of her book Decolonizing Methodologies. This pathbreaking volume presented a significant challenge to the ways in which imperialism was embedded in the production of k

Episode 1 Cycling through Kansas in a time of Trump

Dec 13 2023 24 mins

In this episode our Managing Editor, Michaela Benson talks to Jenny Reardon (University of California. Santa Cruz) about her ongoing research which has involved riding through the wide, open grasslands and cow towns of Kansas. As she explains, this is a project that was designed to develop embodied knowledge of the land and to find out more about attitudes towards contemporary US p

Episode 2 Ending staff to student sexual misconduct in Higher Education

Dec 13 2023 19 mins

In this episode, our managing editor Dr Michaela Benson interviews Anna Bull (University of Portsmouth) and Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) about their work with the 1752 group to end sexual misconduct in higher education. They talk frankly about staff to student sexual misconduct, highlighting how power is enacted in and through this, and stress that the development of sup

Episode 3 Decolonisation and anti-racist solidarity within and beyond the University

Dec 13 2023 17 mins

What should anti-racist solidarity within and beyond the university look like? In this episode,Chantelle Lewis, editorial manager at the Sociological Review, Adam Elliott-Cooper (Kings College London) and Remi Joseph-Salisbury (University of Manchester) discuss the challenges of doing anti-racist work within and beyond the university. They talk about how to build solidarities that

Episode 4 The sociology of stigma and rethinking contemporary social inequalities

Dec 13 2023 26 mins

In this episode, our managing editor Michaela Benson talks with Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University) about her recent work on the sociology of stigma. In keeping with the theme of the conference, Imogen advocates an approach that recognises that sociological knowledge might be produced from outside rigid disciplinary boundaries; as she describes the political urgency of a renewed ge

Episode 5 Genealogies of race, place, stigma in the critique of territorial stigmatisation

Dec 13 2023 23 mins

In this episode, Imogen Tyler, editor of The Sociology of Stigma, talks with Jenna Loyd (University of Wisconsin, Madison) about the neglect of grounded histories of racial segregation, displacement in the conceptual framework of territorial stigmatisation. Thinking with her empirical research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jenna argues that race, racism and racialisation need to take ce

Episode 6 Developing a Feminist walk of Newcastle

Dec 13 2023 20 mins

This episode brings our Managing Editor Michaela Benson into conversation with Maggie O’Neill (University of York) and Holly Argent (Artist, Northern Charter), the instigators the Feminist Walk of Newcastle that took place at the Undisciplining conference. This was a feminist intervention in a city, which, like many others, has obfuscated the role of women in the public and civic

Episode 7 Navigating Higher Education as working class women

Dec 13 2023 20 mins

This episode brings Chantelle Lewis, editorial manager for The Sociological Review, into conversation with Ronda Daniels and Steph Lacey. They talk about their experiences of being young working class women in Higher Education, of becoming aware of their class backgrounds in these spaces. Reflecting on their initial unease in entering and navigating these spaces, they discuss how t