Laura Clancy

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

➡️ "The Class Politics of Fine Dining" @victorerikray.bsky.social
contexts.org/blog/the-class-politics-of-fine-dining/

BREAKING NEWS

Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North.

Get down there and support everyone.

For folks who want to support.

Signal announcement group:

www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor...

We've Been advised to share this.

Death threats, phone tapping and stalking: the consequences academics can face from sharing their research Facing an abusive backlash may make the cost of entry into public debate too high.

In today's The Conversation, my and @lauraclancy.bsky.social's article on our findings from the project Cultures of Digital Hate: theconversation.com/death-threat...

2025 – Montréal - SASE SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.

We are doing it again, again!

Mini-conference on Elites and Power Structures at the @sasemeeting.bsky.social organized with, amongst others, @brunocousin.bsky.social @thierryrossier.bsky.social @vereta-nahoum.bsky.social

Hard deadline for abstracts in a week

sase.org/event/2025-m...

The Age of Mistrust? Join us as we explore how the latest humanities and social sciences research can help us confront some of the biggest issues of our time. How can we recognise misinformation? How can we build trust in...

Super excited to announce our next season theme for @britishacademy.bsky.social public events is ‘the Age of Mistrust?’

We’ve a range of free events on: the history of misinformation, the year of elections, the role of AI and mistrust in sci-fi. Book here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

New Formations: Volume 2024 Issue 112 (2024) - Lawrence Wishart New Formations: A Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics - Issue contents for Volume 2024 Issue 112 (2024)

Our latest special issue is the brilliant Affect & Ideology, guest edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social and Ben Anderson.

journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

And you ☺️

How are you, it’s been ages!?

From rage to riches: how fixing wealth inequality defeats populism Wednesday 27 November | 18:30 to 20:00 | LSE III Public Event with Liam Byrne MP, Professor Jonathan Hopkin, Dr Faiza Shaheen and Professor Mike Savage

Calling everyone concerned with ‘elite takeover’ driven by excessive concentrations of wealth: don’t miss this LSE event next Wednesday evening!

Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming From tales of alienation to comforting novels set in bookshops, Japanese authors have written nearly half of this year’s bestselling translated novels in the UK. What’s their secret? • Read an an exclusive Q&A with Haruki Murakami Anyone who has been in…

Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming

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Feeling the “first post pressure” so here’s Ginny posing