Katie Higgins

Highly recommend this fantastic article from @shayobrien.bsky.social!

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various t...

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time?

I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️

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First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

@bupjournals.bsky.social

It was brilliant to present at the Institute of Sociology @tuberlin.bsky.social and to learn more about the important research happening there -thanks for the invitation @isabellstamm.bsky.social!

Congratulations!

On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams 6.30pm Weds 19 Mar | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Free public event at LSE

In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years.

📆 Wednesday 19 March
⏰ 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 In person at LSE and online

Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous res...

Another plug for my new @bjsociology.bsky.social article with Narzanin Massoumi examining the appointment of corporate elites to the boards of charities.

No paywall btw! 👇
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Tonight. I’m at the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social launch of Isaac Rose’s “The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social

What's on | Bradford 2025 From events to exhibitions, find out what's on during Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Going to plan a few trips to West Yorkshire this year bradford2025.co.uk/whats-on/

UK Still Taxes the Poorest More Than the Richest - Equality Trust New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the poorest 10% of households in the UK are still paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest.

UK's regressive tax system.
Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%.

Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%.

Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%.

No govt plans to end inequity.
equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...

#16 in the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social critical theory Xmas countdown is one of the books of the year. @aaronreeves.bsky.social discussing “Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite” coauthored with @samfriedman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/born-to-rule

On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams 6.30pm Weds 19 Mar | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Free public event at LSE

Save the date for our Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture!

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years.

📆 Wednesday 19 March

This is a really interesting and important piece of work

Very excited to share the details for the 2025 @bjsociology.bsky.social Annual Lecture, featuring Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams." 19 March, 6:30pm, at the LSE. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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!

SPERI Blog - City fortunes All posts

A blog on our new article 'City fortunes: The sources of wealth and international homeownership of the world’s urban wealth elite' by Rowland Atkinson, Jonathan Bourne and me - link here: speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog/2024/ci...