My new article on ‘Grindr Wars’ where I demonstrate how class tensions between ‘rich gays’ & ‘poor gays’ create hierarchies of desire and bodies in postcolonial India & South Africa. Part of a brilliant special issue by Dr Branwen Spector & Dr Fabian Broeker journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/a…

Call for abstracts for a Special Volume on Computational Social Science (of the journal "Soziale Welt")! Mark Lutter and I are looking for contributions presenting new research, discussing CSS methods, giving overviews of applications ... janfuhse.de/css.htm

Any friends and colleagues in Delhi next week, I'm giving a talk at CWDS on a new paper I'm writing on corporate masculinities - critically exploring men's everyday forms of sexual harassment of women in the workplace - do come and say hello if you are around.

Trust and Inequality of Opportunities - Antonio M Jaime-Castillo (Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo) & Francisco Herreros (Francisco Herreros) argue inequality of opportunities deteriorates interpersonal trust. Read in Political Studies: buff.ly/426Z4AC Political Studies Association @SAGECQPolitics

How do subjective economic threats from globalization & tech changes shape social policy preferences? Seobin Han & Hyeok Yong Kwon argue structural economic shifts increase subjective job insecurity. Read more: buff.ly/3DMUxcF @SAGECQPolitics Political Studies Association #welfare

The research field around „tech workers“, the high paid professionals in the digital economy, is growing! Glad to see this fascinating piece by Kenzo Seto on the sociotechnical imaginaries of tech workers in the Global South out: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #techworkers

Really exciting to have both Sam Friedman Aaron Reeves at today’s Sociology seminar series Cambridge Sociology. Theoretically and empirically rich talk on how elites in Britain manage to reproduce

New Publication!! How do greenhouse gas emissions differ across social classes in the UK? Combining new data with Reckwitz' class theoretical framework, my colleagues Michael Lindner, Antonia Schuster and me have just published an article on this tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I have a paper out! It's about how we tell supply chain histories. It's also about how software work came to be offshored. Check it out if you're interested in production networks, economic globalisation, computing history, or conjunctural analysis academic.oup.com/joeg/advance-a…

My obituary for Michael Burawoy has been published by Work in the Global Economy Journal ILPC . I tried to provide both some insight into Michael as a person, his work and especially his politics. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

'Beyond the ‘gig economy’: towards variable experiences of job quality in platform work' An article I wrote with Nick Martindale and Brendan Burchell has been accepted by Work, Employment & Society The BSA Watch this space....

New Publication 🚨 Why are contemporary societies increasingly looking to private companies to solve climate change? In my latest article, I analyze the rise of green tech firms and the cultural operations driving this shift. Out now in Journal of Cultural Economy tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fantastic, multi-faceted special issue on the phenomenon of tech work and the underexplored segment of high-paid workers in digital capitalism #techworkers Valentin Niebler @[email protected] scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…

Truly fascinating talk by Michèle Lamont today across the issues of recognition, class and social change. Great to have such an inspiring sociologist visiting our department Michele Lamont Cambridge Sociology

Interesting article on the upper-middle-class and how it has managed to end up under massive pressure in the post-liberal conjuncture theideasletter.org/essay/the-war-…

Excited to be in Manchester and to attend the annual conference of the British Sociological Association #BSA2025 The BSA At 3.30pm, I‘ll be giving a talk on the tech elite and how they entrepreneur legitimacy

Our article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" has been published by Work, Employment & Society with Nick Martindale and BrendanBurchell

Happy to see this new article published! Written with Anne-Mette Hermans, the article analyzes and theorizes the rise of the cosmetic industry through the novel theoretical framework of enrichment #Boltanski tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship in sociology! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary. jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/the…