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Latest publications from Sociology

  • Contemporary Art and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland: The Consolation of Form by Professor Vikki Bell

    The online version of this article can be found HERE


  • Kate Nash has published 'States of Human Rights' in the online journal Sociologica Issue 1/2011 on how sociologists need to understand the paradox that states are both the violators and the guarantors of human rights in terms of 'autonomy' rather than 'sovereignty'. There are responses to the argument from Daniel Levy, Giovanna Procacci, George Steinmetz, and Bryan Turner, and then a Reply to those comments.

    http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/issue/index/Issue/Journal:ISSUE:13

  • The Archi-texture of Parliament: Flaneur as Method in Westminster

    An article by Nirmal Puwar in The Journal of Legislative Studies (Volume 16, Issue 3, 2010; pp 298-312)

    How does one approach a study of the archi-textures of parliamentary spaces? How do the walls, floors, doors, grilles, sculptures, murals and glass sensate legitimate parliamentary rites, rituals and performances? How do they also provide researchers with opportunities for telling altered iterations of how parliamentary space has both contained and been taken apart? If the buildings and its textures are embedded with iconography and haptic architectures which provide containers of democracy, how can we, as researchers working through different occupations of architectures, evacuate a different imagination of political space?

  • Vikki Bell has an article and interview published in Theory, Culture and Society Journal: ‘On Fernando’s Photograph: On the Bio-Politics of Aparición in Contemporary Argentina’ Theory, Culture & Society 2010 Vol 27: 4 pp69-89 AND Interview: ‘New Scenes of Vulnerability, Agency and Plurality: An Interview with Judith Butler’ Theory, Culture & Society (2010) Theory, Culture & Society, 27:1 pp130-152

  • Professor Caroline Knowles' new book entitled Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys (University of Chicago Press) is a collaboration with visual sociologist Douglas Harper.  The book explores the lives and landscapes of the British expatriates who chose to to remain in Hong Kong after the transition of British control to China.  This extraodinary and aesthetically beautiful reveals the paradoxes and conflicts of a city still haunted by the lingering affects of empire.  

    "Knowles and Harper have created an extraordinary rich account of how and where immigrant experiences intersect with Hong Kong social structure." Jon Wagner, University of California

  • Dr Marsha Rosengarten has published a new booke entitled HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh. The book is published by the University of Washington Press in the Book Series In Vivo: Cultural Mediations Of Biomedical Science.

  • Les Back has published a series of new articles:

    (2009) "Beaches and Graveyards: Europe's Haunted Borders," Postcolonial Studies, Volume 12(3): 329-441

    (2009) (with John Solomos, Kalbir Shuckra and Michael Keith) ‘Islam and the New Political Landscape: Faith Communities, Political Participation and Social Change,’ Theory, Culture and Society (with Michael Keith, Azra Khan, Kalbir Shukra and John Solomos) Volume 26, 4: 1-23

    (2009) “Portrayal and Betrayal: Bourdieu, Photography and Sociological Life,”  Sociological Review, Volume 57, 3: 471-491
    also jointly edited the Special Issue - Bourdieu In Algeria with Nirmal Puwar and Azzedine Habour

    (2009) “Global Attentiveness and the Sociological Ear” Sociological Research On-line Volume 14, Issue 4, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/4/14.html

    (2009) (with Stuart Hall) “At Home and note at home”, Cultural Studies, Vol 23, 4: 660-688

    (2009) ‘Researching Community and its Moral Projects’, 21st Century Society, vol 4, 2: 2001-14

  • Professor AbdouMaliq Simone has published a new book City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads (Global Realities) Routledge, 2009

    City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process—an "anticipatory politics"—that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.

  • Kate Nash has published 'Between Citizenship and Human Rights', in Sociology Volume 43 Issue 6, December 2009

  • Alex Wilkie and Micheal have published a new article:

    Wilkie, A.  and Michael, M. (2009). Expectation and Mobilisation: Enacting Future Users. Science, Technology and Human Values, 34, 502-522. (ISSN 0162 2439)

  • A special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory (February 2009; volume 12, no 1) has been published, to discuss the themes addressed at the 'What is the Empirical?' conference held in June 2007 and featuring contributions by conference speakers. The issue is available at http://est.sagepub.com/current.dtl.

  • Aidan Kelly's chapter 'Enterprise Culture and the Welfare State' is available on Google Books (published in 'Deciphering The Enterprise Culture', edited by Roger Burrows, published by Routledge, 1991)

  • Alex Wilkie and Mike Michael are publishing an article entitled: "Expectation and Mobilisation: Enacting Future Users" in a forthcoming edition of Science Technology and Human Values. The Online First version is available from Sage Publications

  • Mike Michael publishes chapter in: - Michael, M. (2010). Sticking Plasters and Standardization. In V. Higgins and W. Larner. (eds). Calculating the Social: Standards and the Re-configuration of Governing. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Professor AbdouMaliq Simone has published a new book City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads (Global Realities) Routledge, 2009

    City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process—an "anticipatory politics"—that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.

  • Professor Beverley Skeggs has contributed a chapter to the Runnymede Trust's publication 'Who Cares About the White Working Class' (2009). Professor Skegg's chapter 'Haunted by the Spectre of Judgement: Respectability, Value and Affect in Class Relations' explores the relationship between moral judgment and class hatred and contempt.

  • Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam recently published two poems in E. Earle and C. Bartholomew (2008) (eds) Death, Dying and Bereavement: An Anthology. London: Routledge. "For Phyllis" and "Blind Date" demonstrate her extraordinary talent for poetic sociology.

  • Keith Kahn Harris has written with David Hayes 'The Politics of ME ME ME' on Open Democracy - 'British Jews and Israel: A New Relationship' on Guardian Comment Is Free and 'How Diverse Should Metal Be? The Case of Jewish Metal' at 'Heavy Fundamentalisms: Music, Metal and Politics', Salzburg, 3-5 November 2008 'Arguing about Israel: Is there another way?' and 'How secure is Anglo-Jewry?' at Limmud (www.limmud.org), December 2008.

  • A new updated and revised second edition of Les Back & John Solomos' book Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader has just been published. Patricia Hill Collins, President, American Sociological Association called the book: "a remarkable synthesis of important theoretical works in the study of race and racism."