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Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.

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Welcome To The Journal
The Sociological Review Is Welcoming 20 New Members To Its Editorial Board 
The Soc Rev

Welcome To The Journal The Sociological Review Is Welcoming 20 New Members To Its Editorial Board The Soc Rev

⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month

Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0

11.03.2026 08:01 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 4

Just over 2 weeks left until our event!

11.03.2026 13:14 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tune in to sociology! Hear interviews with authors of articles published in ASA journals, including the American Sociological Review, @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, @sociusjournal.bsky.social, @contexts.org, @teachingsociology.bsky.social, @spquarterly.bsky.social, and more! https://bit.ly/3LMjWqK

11.03.2026 14:04 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This is TODAY!

If you are at @glasgow.ac.uk this afternoon please check out Joshua Page's talk which will take place in the Adam Smith Building at 3.30pm.

www.sccjr.ac.uk/event/legal-...

11.03.2026 10:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Dangerous Thrill of Destabilisation: Interview with Dr Jacob Engelberg on Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression Sam Button interviews Dr Jacob Engelberg on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happe...

Our own Sam Lawton has just published this interview with @jacobengelberg.bsky.social for @intrrgnm.bsky.social on the latter's new book, 'Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression'. Interregnum aims to make radical and critical theory available for a wider public audience.

10.03.2026 14:42 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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In Glasgow tomorrow?

Come along to this public talk:

'From dispersal to solidarity - 25 years of migrant justice in Glasgow' organised by STAR Glasgow, with me and Dr Pinar Aksu

all very welcome!

www.instagram.com/p/DVT3QD4iME...

www.instagram.com/star.glasgow

@uofgsociology.bsky.social

10.03.2026 14:08 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

2/ ...We are delighted to be welcoming Prof Joshua Page (University of Minnesota) whose talk - 'Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice' - will situate the extractive economies built into the criminal justice system in the US within the longer history of racialised capitalism.

10.03.2026 10:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

1/ Our next S&CS seminar (co-hosted with @thesccjr.bsky.social) takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 11th March 3.30-5.00 in the Adam Smith Business School, Rm 487. Please do come along and share the word...

10.03.2026 10:42 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Our colleagues on the @kthabitproject.bsky.social project team are looking for your images of branded sports memorabilia sponsored by alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, or gambling companies since the 1960s to help them map the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship to create a shared public resource.

10.03.2026 09:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A reminder about this seminar taking place with @scarletharris.bsky.social, this Friday. Scarlet's book is out now, with full open access, from @manchesterup.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 08:51 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

It's encouraging to see @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and David Walsh's crucial work being referenced in this article on declining life-expectancy in the UK.

06.03.2026 09:20 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Introduction: roaming and rooted – migration, religion, spirituality and the transnational lives of African youth This Special Issue examines the intersections of migration, religion, spirituality and the transnational lives of African youth, offering a decolonial and youth-centred perspective on mobility and ...

Delighted to share word of this special issue of @ersjournal.com co-edited by our own Dominic Pasura and colleagues. 'Roaming and Rooted' brings together 11 articles rethinking migration via lived religion/spirituality and African epistemologies across Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa & the UK.

05.03.2026 08:43 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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The resource pack is on our website. Please share with any practitioners who may wish to facilitate discussions around youth violence with young people.

www.sccjr.ac.uk/resource/you...

04.03.2026 15:35 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Justice Futures Seminar. Resources of Hope: Violence Prevention and the School of the Wise Men.
Justice Futures Seminar. Resources of Hope: Violence Prevention and the School of the Wise Men. YouTube video by The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

It was brilliant to see Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon and Graeme Armstrong talk about the 'Straight Out the Scheme: Youth Work Resource' which launched last week.

If you work with young people please make sure to check out the recorded talk and download the resource pack!

youtu.be/HYXUmY68z_w?...

04.03.2026 15:35 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Away from the faeries: the rehabilitation of Tam Lin. Fergus McNeill asks: 'what does an old Scottish folk-tale have to teach us about the meaning of rehabilitation?'

We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.

03.03.2026 13:16 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris

Advance notice of this seminar - Islamophobia and anti-racism: ongoing lessons for the ‘British left - taking place next Friday 13th with @scarletharris.bsky.social. Scarlet's book has just been published by MUP (below). 11-1 in Room 416 in the Gilbert Scott building, East Quadrangle. All welcome.

03.03.2026 10:31 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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#OtD 3 Mar 1932 the right to free speech on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, was won after over a decade of direct action. Up to 100,000 people at a time defied a ban, often arming themselves with sticks, hammers and bottles until authorities caved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1021...

03.03.2026 08:40 👍 49 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre | Anthem Press Explore more about this title.

“The Anthem Press Companion to Henri Lefebvre" a new edited book by our own Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson explores the sociology of Lefebvre including rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia, space and its continuing relevance for the discipline today.

anthempress.com/books/the-an...

03.03.2026 09:40 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Season 4 | Episode 12 | The Importance of Sociology Today, with Professor Les Back - Sociology Staffroom The President of the British Sociological Association, Professor Les Back joins Katie in the Sociology Staffroom to discuss his role, his research and t...

Out now on the Sociology Staffroom podcast, @academicdiary.bsky.social discusses his work and his role as this year's @britsoci.bsky.social president.

02.03.2026 14:40 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Who’s afraid of the ‘Muslim vote’? Bluesky:  @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

Since we are going there again... much of the below still stands! Who’s afraid of the ‘Muslim vote’? share.google/d4YWgJ8QTlVe...

27.02.2026 13:16 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
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Call for Papers: This joint event hosted by SocRel and @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social is an opportunity for shared learning between the two study groups and will be the first event of its kind. In coming together we hope to share experiences, research findings, and explore areas of mutual interest

25.02.2026 10:15 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Join us on 3 March for a special event to commemorate Berta Cáceres. Details here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

25.02.2026 07:47 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Border as Possibility: Rewriting Reality with Gloria Anzaldua Workshop with Juliana Ramírez-Muñoz.

Join GLARN @glalarn.bsky.social for their upcoming workshop Border as Possibility: Rewriting Reality with Gloria Anzaldua. Friday 20 March, 2-5pm. Register below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/border-as-...

26.02.2026 11:18 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image text relates to submitting an abstract to this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference to take part in the discussion. Deadline 20 March

Image text relates to submitting an abstract to this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference to take part in the discussion. Deadline 20 March

Deeper insight is needed into how interconnected crises affect labour markets, workers' agency and corporate accountability.

Submit your abstract to this year’s Work, Employment and Society Conference to take part in the discussion. Deadline 20 March:

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

26.02.2026 08:54 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Register to attend our upcoming #Identities online event!

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community

In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham

www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Stuart Hall Foundation

26.02.2026 09:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

A reminder that our next S&CS seminar is this afternoon - details below. Please come along if you can and feel free to share details with anyone you think might be interested.

25.02.2026 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

25.02.2026 13:39 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Still (just) time to apply for positions on the editorial boards of these two @britsoci.bsky.social journals.

25.02.2026 11:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What would we say to our younger selves?

25.02.2026 10:12 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Feminist Filmmaking Workshop A feminist filmmaking workshop based on a project connecting feminists in Scotland, Catalonia and Cuba.

Free and requiring no prior experience of filmmaking, this Feminist Filmmaking Workshop is taking place in the ARC (Studio 2), 6th March, 10-12. The workshop emerges from a project involving own Emma Flynn, in collaboration with colleagues from Arts and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Book below.

25.02.2026 08:34 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0