New project! We want to design a project to better understand #autistic young people who experience suicidal thoughts & feelings. We are grateful to hear from #autistic young people & adult supporters.

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The Sociological Review Foundation statement of solidarity with the people of Palestine

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Caught in the crossfire: throughout the history of #Afghan istan , #Afghan women and their rights have been weaponised for political purposes by both international & local groups, observes Afghan refugee and sociologist Neela Hassan 🇦🇫 University of Waterloo in #TSRWar .

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See you in September: join scholars, practitioners, educators, activists and more in Salford for Undisciplining II – a conference in which we ask: who is sociology for?

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DIY, cycling and radical invention. This and more in the latest from #UncommonSense where the cycling and sewing sociologist kat jungnickel Politics Of Patents reflects on #making

With celebrations of Saidiya Hartman, Donna Haraway and more!

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Slivers and footnotes: how has the sociology of the present been shaped by past contributions by wives to the discipline?

Hosts Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 & Val Gillies talk to Lebogang Mokwena and John Goodwin in #ThanksforTyping #podcast Episode 5.

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#Ukraine check: how has revolution – and devolution – kept #Kyiv unconquered?

The Institutional Economist🇺🇦 ZHAW Kozminski University writes in our #TSRWar issue about the 2014 #Maidan uprising and its consequences for the nation’s ongoing resistance to Russia.

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“The accused are now responsible for proving their innocence instead of the state having to prove their guilt.”

Sandipan Mitra reviews a powerful new Pluto Press study of police and state brutality in India by Suchitra Vijayan 🇵🇸 & francesca recchia The Polis Project in #TSRWar . buff.ly/3JgJVlL

Hells on earth: in our #TSRWar issue, Neela Hassan 🇦🇫 writes on Afghan women caught in the crossfire between West and Taliban, Suddhabrata Deb Roy looks at Kashmir’s uneasy peace, The Institutional Economist🇺🇦 reflects on Ukraine from Maidan to Russian invasion, and much more.

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Do you dabble in DIY?

In #UncommonSense kat jungnickel Politics Of Patents discusses MAKING, suggesting that DIY is rarely a solo thing – really, it’s often more a case of a Do-It-Together, or DIT...

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Is Armenia’s recent decision to extend conscription to women an attempt by the masculine state to co-opt gender equality language for militarist ends?

Activist Sona Baldrian takes a look at the debate in our #TSRWar issue.
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More than a nip and tuck: cosmetic surgery may end up emphasising patients’ ethnic identities – or reconstructing racial categories. | Liina Mustonen reviews Alka Menon’s analysis of a burgeoning part of the beauty industry in the US & Malaysia.

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Apocalypse then: what can US protests against the Vietnam war half a century ago teach us about the Russian opposition to Putin’s Ukraine campaign?

Arseniy Kumankov Princeton Politics compares two peace movements in #TSRWar . buff.ly/3VX3hnh

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“There is more organizational continuity in contemporary warfare than the dominant perspectives are willing to acknowledge.”

Siniša Malešević’s Is War Becoming Obsolete? A Sociological Analysis is #FreetoView in the Magazine’s new #TSRWar issue. buff.ly/4cYEHZu

“In the aftermath of 7 October... media repeated the time-tested narrative of Israel as ‘the democratic state that wants peace’. But Israel itself created this narrative.”

Journalist & scholar Saida Hamad writes in #TSRWar on history, horror and Hasbara.
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#MustListen Don't call me resilient podcast on how educators can support their students in encampments “any educator needs to be very careful before going on to justify acts of violence that they authorize on their own students. This is not education.”

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Looks like Uni of Reading is setting up a new UG sociology degree. Good news for the discipline. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Join Rethinking Economics SOAS Rethinking Economics for Africa Rethinking Economics India for our teach-in on the political economy of Palestine. Come prepped with questions for the discussion!

🕐14:00 UTC
📆29th May 2024
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Join SAPIENS editor-in-chief Chip Colwell on May 28 for a virtual workshop on how to pitch your writing!