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The paper Women as Space Invaders: The Force of the Somatic Norm – a summary of the book Space Invaders – was accepted as a publication in a parliamentary special issue on the Women’s Suffrage Centenary. At the last minute, it was withdrawn by the publishers.

You can download the pdf of the paper here: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/women-as-space-invaders-the-force-of-the-somatic-norm/

Read all about our latest research news from the Department here: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/research-news-summer-2022/

Research News – Summer 2022 – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 04/07/2022 Research News – Summer 2022 Scroll down to see more content Publications Ming-Te Peng (PhD Candidate) has published her first article in Asia Pacific Education Review, under the title “Relocating the education reform movement: how have universities in Taiwan experienced Neol...

In 1893, 16-year-old Tessie Reynolds defied gender norms to ride 120 miles from Brighton to London and back, setting the fastest known time in the process. However, because she was a woman, her record wasn’t recognised. To pay homage to Tessie's amazing achievement and what it meant for women around the world, Manon has tried to recreate her epic ride, pantaloons and all!

Feat. Dr Kat Jungnickel from Sociology Gold [https://www.politicsofpatents.org/pi/]

Watch the short film here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NoIzr4jdnM

Join sociologist Caroline Knowles on a walk across the economic and class divide of the capital to discover how extreme wealth has reshaped our streets:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/22/london-super-rich-serious-money-caroline-knowles

We are delighted that has recognised our leading edge

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Congratulations (and thanks for all the hard work!) to all those involved.

Our commitment to making sociology matter continues 👏

p.s. Thanks to University of Glasgowfor their REF Communications Guide 👍
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On Tuesday the 24 May join Naila Kabeer and Sara Farris (Sociology Gold) discussing the difference between social reproduction and the ethics/politics of care.

LSE Inequalities on Twitter “📢Join us for the next seminar 'Social reproduction and care: what’s in a name?' 🗣️ and discuss the distinctions between reproduction and in the context of social formations 🎟️Register here: https://t.co/rOoQDh9Umh”

Catch up with all our latest research news from around the Department: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/research-news-may-2022/

Research News – May 2022 – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 16/05/2022 Research News – May 2022 Scroll down to see more content Awards Jennifer Fleetwood (with Charlotte Scott in Department of English) have been awarded £29,324 from the AHRC to form a research network with Clean Break Theatre Company. The project is called “A story of her own:...

The May Issue of the Sociological Review Magazine features ‘Belief’. Goldsmiths professor of Race, Faith and Culture
Day writes here about her research and why a sociological approach matters.

https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/may-2022/belief/i-believe-therefore-i-am/

I believe therefore I am: Belief is not a benign, neutral category – and context is key Salvation or danger: context is key when we decide what to believe in, religious or otherwise, writes Abby Day.

Online Book Launch: Ghost Criminology: a (spirit) guide feat:
(SocGold) along with Michael Fiddler (Greenwich) &

19 April 2022
Time: 7pm-8pm (GMT) / 1pm-2pm (CDT)

Register here: https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-ghost-criminology-a-spirit-guide-tickets-303606714857…

Book Launch: Ghost Criminology: a (spirit) guide Hosted by the School of Law and Criminology

“Learning to die in the wake of ecological devastation requires making life outside the modern coordinates of progress, which is to say living without the ideal of civilisation.”

: Martin Savransky on climate change and expanding our political imagination through histories of decolonisation: https://buff.ly/37MWRjL

STRIKE TEACH OUT: Shouting the Live Methods Manifesto on the Picket
Wednesday 23rd March 2022 @ 11.30am

The manifestos are printed! Come & join us for a collective reading of the Live Methods Manifesto!

Written by Les Back & Nirmal Puwar back in 2012, we'll be airing the 11 live methods provocations out loud in a group read around. Find us out front of RHB.

In solidarity,

Soc PhD students

Climate initiative: Stories for Hope 5 Day Pop-up Community Challenge

Over the last nine months, Common Vision has been working with youth-led NGO Force of Nature, academic coalition Climate Cares, multi-million-pound science funder NERC, and a team of young people and climate scientists, to co-design an engagement project which supports young people to share positive stories about the power of our eco-emotions. As part of this project, they are piloting their first 5 Day Community Challenge - an online journey exploring what drives different emotional responses to climate change, and the practical ways we can build hope about the future. They're looking for under-30s interested in social justice, climate action, nature, or climate science to take part.

Over the course of next week young people will have opportunities to take part in an interactive journey to reflect on their climate emotions, imagine a better future, and connect to action. There will be daily creative challenges, a pop-up community to share and learn alongside, and a series of Q&A events featuring experts in environmental science, psychology, neuroscience, climate activism and narrative change:

Is there a 'correct' emotional response to climate change? Monday 14th March, 12.30-1.30pm

What does the future look like when you combine science and imagination? Wednesday 16th March, 12.30-1.30pm

What can we actually achieve through climate action? Friday 18th March, 12.30-1.30pm

While the Challenge is designed for under-30s, all ages are welcome to these online events. Further details and registration here: https://mailchi.mp/covi.org.uk/storiesforhope

Hear from leading policy experts then design your own policies at Common Vision's Rethinking Resilience Policy Design Sprints

What makes a young person resilient and how does this relate to wider systems in the community, economy, and society? This is the question they've been asking through our 'Rethinking Resilience' project which seeks to understand what makes young people feel resilient and the systems which foster that resilience.

They are now preparing to kick off a series of Policy Design Sprints where they will bring together policy experts and young people to explore the policy pathways to achieving long-term resilience through different social systems. Together they'll design a policy framework for putting young people at the centre of the COVID-19 recovery. These are interactive and participatory sessions designed for young people of all backgrounds with an interest in politics or social action.

The first two events are:
Rethinking Resilience in Employment, Tuesday 22nd March, 5.00-6.30pm will focus on the link between employment and work, and what we've learned about personal and systemic resilience over the last two years.

Rethinking Resilience in Education, Wednesday 6th April, 5.00-6.30pm will look at how resilience is fostered through education over the life course, and what resilient education systems look like.

Stories for Hope 5 Day Pop-up Community Challenge When you think about climate change, do you feel hopeful? Or do you experience difficult feelings like worry, fear, anger, or grief? Stories for Hope 5 Day Pop-up Community Challenge. 

Premiere of The Battle for Deptford, a feature length documentary about the campaign to save Tidemill Garden and Reginald House in Deptford, south east London.

There will be a IRL premiere at St Nicholas Church, Deptford, on Thursday 28 April 2022.

And an online premiere on Thursday 5 May 2022.

Tickets are free but please register in advance to book your place: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-battle-for-deptford-documentary-196579

Who's city is it?

The film centers on the beloved community garden and block of council homes as they are under threat from redevelopment. Lewisham Council want to push through demolition, but local people fight back, to try to influence the plans and have a say in how their communities are changing.

The Battle for Deptford delves into how by changing our city we change ourselves, and the forces which can take this collective right away from us. It explores gentrification, air pollution, the importance of green spaces, and what it means to be part of a community.

The Battle for Deptford documentary The Battle for Deptford is a feature-length documentary about a community garden and block of council homes under threat from redevelopment. As the council try to push through demolition, local people fight back.

New Exhibition of Workshop Outputs
https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/i-am-a-work-in-progress/

This exhibition explores what it is to live a life without drugs and alcohol where they have previously featured heavily. It is based on a collaboration between a researcher, two artists, Isla Millar and Penny Maltby, and seven research participants.

It forms part of an early-career research project led by Dr Fay Dennis and funded by the Wellcome Trust entitled ‘Mapping bodies and care practices: Making people who use drugs matter’. The purpose of the project was to study drug-related effects including harm as sociomaterial processes.

Exhibition Openings:
Mon 7 Feb – Fri 25 Mar (11am–5pm)
Late Evening Openings:
Tue 22 Feb & Tue 22 Mar (11am–8pm)
Saturday Openings:
19 Feb & 5, 12 & 19 Mar (11am–5pm)

Constance Howard Gallery
Deptford Town Hall
New Cross Rd
London, SE14 6NW

“I am a Work in Progress” – The Art of Living With(out) Drugs – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 11/02/202222/02/2022 “I am a Work in Progress” – The Art of Living With(out) Drugs Scroll down to see more content New Exhibition of Workshop Outputs This exhibition explores what it is to live a life without drugs and alcohol where they have previously featured heavily. It is based ...

Inside the strikes: When ‘being realistic’ is social value reduced to pure economics Photo credit: Vincent Møystad As Goldsmiths UCU strikes to prevent 52 workers being made redundant in a ‘restructure’ desired by university management, Goldsmiths lecturer Kiran Grewal …

Read all about it ... our latest research news from around the Department!

https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/research-news-february-2022/

Research News – February 2022 – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 09/02/2022 Research News – February 2022 Scroll down to see more content Publications The Sociology Society has produced a new issue of SPLIT Magazine written by students. Sara Farris has just published a new article (co-authored with Nira Yuval-Davis and Catherine Rottenberg), “The Fr...

17 Feb at 1600 - panel discussion exploring gender, ecology and the future of the planet with (SocGold) and Prof Kate Soper organised by & chaired by

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-ecology-and-the-future-of-the-planet-tickets-264273568357

Gender, Ecology and the Future of the Planet Join us for a celebratory IGP event and reception

Student Volunteering Week, 7th - 13th February 2022

In its 21st year, Student Volunteering Week is a country-wide event celebrating the benefits that student volunteering brings by improving wellbeing, boosting employability and making a positive contribution to the community.

To join in the celebrations, the Volunteering Team will bring you a series of events over the week of the 7th - 13th February, where you will hear from some of our charity partners about the volunteering roles available to you as a student. We will also be joined by current and former students who will share their experiences of volunteering whilst studying, along with other information sessions to help you find out about the different types of volunteering you can do as a Goldsmiths student (including funded volunteering abroad!).

You can find out about the events by searching ‘Student Volunteering Week 2022’ on [explore.gold/CareerSPACE]CareerSPACE, or by heading over to our Instagram:

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‘An Archive of Unwavering Strength’ by the MA Gender, Media & Culture - What makes Goldsmiths? Goldsmiths is the community of students & staff
https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/the-goldstrike-solidarity-zine/… Read the zine made in support & inspiration of our collective voice & power

The #GoldStrike Solidarity Zine – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 02/02/202202/02/2022 The Solidarity Zine Scroll down to see more content ‘An Archive of Unwavering Strength’ by the MA Gender, Media and Culture The Goldsmiths Senior Management Team (SMT) proposed redundancies of up to 32 professional services staff and 20 academics in Eng...

UCL/PESGB London Branch Research Seminar

DATE/TIME: Wednesday 2 February 2022, 5.30-7.00 pm

Speaker: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler (Sociology Goldsmiths)
(see below for link, speaker via Zoom)

Title: Ethical Humans: Living and Learning in the Shadows of Auschwitz and Hiroshima

How was our education formative in shaping our sense of ourselves as ethical humans? How did we learn within a liberal moral culture to put the past behind us and so to abstract ourselves from class, race and gender relations of power as we learn to frame ourselves as individual rational selves? Influenced by Wittgenstein’s later work to ground concepts in everyday relationships and forms of life, I challenge liberal notions of the autonomy of ethics, while drawing in Simone Weil and feminist ethics to show the difficulties of engaging formative histories and relationships and their emotional and traumatic effects.

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Emeritus Professor of Social Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London. He has published across the boundaries of social theory and philosophy, including Kant, Respect and Injustice: The Limits of Liberal Moral Theory; The Moral Limits of Modernity: Love, Inequality and Oppression; Unreasonable Men: Masculinity and Social Theory; Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities; Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multiculture and Belongings after 7/7; Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory. Most recently Making Sense of Brexit: Democracy, Europe and Uncertain Futures (Policy Press, 2018) Ethical Humans: Life, Love, Labour, Learning and Loss (Routledge 2021).

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Th Sociology Society is happy to announce the new issue of SPLIT_MAG.

SPLIT is a zine made by sociology students, for everyone.
This issue’s theme is EMERGENCE, with texts by Les Back, Red Burgess, Connor Kooner, Georgia Lyons, Maria Riga, Brooklyn Saunders, and Elsa Thomas.

Click here to read SPLIT #4:https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.gold.ac.uk/dist/f/80/files/2022/01/SPLIT_4_spreads_PDF-VIEW.pdf

Or find one of the limited printed copies on campus.

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A little light reading for any quiet times over the festive period .. our latest research news is out!

https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/research-news-december-2021/

Wishing everyone a happy / healthy / peaceful / restful * Christmas and NY (* delete as appropriate)

Research News – December 2021 – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 21/12/2021 Research News – December 2021 Scroll down to see more content Publications Evelyn Ruppert with Stephan Scheel published an edited collection with Goldsmiths Press based on the findings of Evelyn’s ERC project, ARITHMUS. It includes chapters co-authored by different combinati...

Check out the new article by Sara Farris with Nira Yuval-Davis and Catherine Rottenberg on the metaphor of the frontline during the first year of the Covid pandemic.

"A brief investigation into the historical emergence of the word “frontline” reveals, perhaps not surprisingly, that the term originated as a war metaphor in English, signifying a “field of operations in contact with the enemy.” However, over the course of the 20th century, its meaning has shifted and expanded so that today it is used in a variety of contexts and fields. (...) Despite this variety of usages, during the pandemic the term “frontline” has clearly maintained its original association to war and the battlefield. Both the UK government and the media have repeatedly called frontline workers “heroes,” “fighting” indefatigably against an invisible but common enemy. This multifaceted dimension of the military metaphor of the frontline has been captured by Yasmin Gunaratnam, stating that it “blurs willingness, duty, coercion, vulnerability and protection” (Gunaratnam 2020).
What interests us in this paper, however, is less what war metaphors mean or the contexts in which they have historically been used. Rather, we explore the way in which the metaphor has helped to frame the events of the past year as well as the material and affective effects the frontline metaphor has generated in the specific context of COVID-19 in the UK. Metaphors, after all, are not neutral ways of perceiving and representing reality, but actually carry out social and
cultural work as they highlight “some aspects of the target and background others, facilitating different inferences and evaluations” (Semino 2021: 2; Lakoff and Johnson 2008; Sontag 2001). War metaphors used in the context of illness,
for instance, evoke the need to eradicate the disease, while pushing to the background the possibility of learning how to live with it: “As such, in communication, metaphors are important rhetorical devices, especially when the aim is
explanation or persuasion.” (...)
Metaphors thus create what scholars call “framing”, shaping the way in which the public thinks and feels about issues and how we address them.The war metaphors invoked by the UK government during COVID-19 must therefore be understood as performative iterations, which, in their very utterance, enact what they enunciate while simultaneously producing a series of effects and affects in and through their repetition within the public arena. These effects and affects can, of course, be unexpected and even contradictory, as well as change over time. By repeatedly invoking the metaphor, the UK government has helped to produce—both the notion and the materialization—of a COVID-19 frontline as part of the public imaginary, drawing on a longer history of similar iterations and ritualizations, thus framing the situation as exceptional. We also suggest that the frontline
metaphor has managed, at least to some degree, to mobilize the population during this time of crisis and help to legitimize the introduction of emergency measures that undermine democratic processes. Yet, as time passes—just like in
war—the population is likely to grow restive and resist some of the restrictions imposed upon them. In the pandemic’s early days, the notion of the frontline and other war metaphors did help the government to keep people on high alert and
united behind the national effort. During the second and particularly the third national lockdown, these same metaphors appear to have lost at least some of their mobilizing power. Concurrently, they have been increasingly taken up by frontline workers themselves to highlight their everyday working conditions and even critique government inaction. This article is particularly interested in exploring the “contradictory” performative effects of the frontline war metaphor during the first ten months of the pandemic in the UK. One of these effects has been to render opaque the ways in which the government has actively exacerbated inequalities on both the economic and social spheres, in part through passing “The Coronavirus Act,” that has been used to bypass Parliament. The framing of national financial institutions as if they too
are part of the frontline, has, moreover, obscured how corruption, cronyism and a deadly disregard for the vulnerable have
informed much of the UK government’s response to the pandemic. Thus, in this paper we do not investigate what the metaphor of the frontline does to any particular individual or group of individuals, nor do we analyse how the metaphor of the frontline as a performative act interpellates individuals into assuming a certain subject position. Rather, we outline how the frontline metaphor has operated as a performative frame for political discourse, how the government has repeatedly cited this metaphor to respond to the current crisis, and the contradictory effects it has generated as well as concealed through an interplay of rendering certain features of the crisis hyper-visible and others opaque".

The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis on JSTOR In this paper, we examine the multiple significations of the “frontline” metaphor in the UK during the first ten months of COVID-19. We argue that the term “fro...

Grief and a Scholar - by Stephanie Guirand (PhD candidate) - is a personal account of being an insider/outsider researcher and learning how to hold grief as a scholar in consequence of that.

https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/grief-and-a-scholar/

Grief and a Scholar – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 17/12/2021 Grief and a Scholar Scroll down to see more content by Stephanie Guirand For whatever reason, the only sound I could stomach on my walk from the train station to the campus was the Bridgerton score. Melodic, familiar, and escapist—the music was interrupted by a WhatsApp call. ...

A postcard to bell hooks, my first academic love from Brenda Herbert - PhD Candidate in the Department.

https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/a-postcard-to-bell-hooks-my-first-academic-love/

A postcard to bell hooks, my first academic love – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 16/12/2021 A postcard to bell hooks, my first academic love Scroll down to see more content By Brenda Herbert Oh my heart, my heart, my heart… my first academic love has died. bell hooks, oh how I came to you first with a broken heart. I know not how your book landed in my hands but your...

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Racist Tones

Racist Tones foregrounds the everyday stories of those at the receiving end of the hostile racist environment, which formed the backdrop to the Two-Tone record label founded in 1979 in Coventry. It delves into the tones and frequencies in which racism was received and lived in this period.

Find out more about the publication here:
https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sociology/racist-tones/

Racist Tones – Sociology, Goldsmiths Posted on 14/12/2021 Racist Tones Scroll down to see more content Limited edition book by the FOUR WRITERS group, et al.   Racist Tones foregrounds the everyday stories of those at the receiving end of the hostile racist environment, which formed the backdrop to the Two-Tone record label founded in...