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This is such a huge complement that so many took so much care over this special issue - deep thanks to to Emma & Kirsteen @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social

The Sociological Review Journal Vol 73 Issue 5 Kirsteen Paton Emma Jackson Les Back Nirmal Puwar Andrea Doucet Eva Jewell Jessica Falk Rebecca Coleman Dawn Lyon Chloe Turner Thomas Wadsworth Zoe Walshe Beth Bramich Shamser Sinha Sophie Woodward Brenda Herbert Irene van Oorschot Sophie van Balen Andreas Folkers Susie Scott Nina Lockwood Theresa O’Keefe Aline Courtois Jérémy Vachet https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/5/

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess).

💡 Includes a Special Section on the legacy of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.

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Image-Maker in Residence: Verbatim Filmmaking for Social Justice: An abolitionist approach to where, how and why Black men live where they live Stephanie Guirand, our autumn 2025 Image-Maker in Residence and activist, sociologist and co-founder of The Black Response, shares her film and research on the housing injustice that Black men face.

Lovey piece from Stephanie and George on filming as sociological practice. thesociologicalreview.org/image-maker-...

You heard it here first: Uncommon Sense podcasters share some home truths Podcast Uncommon Sense reveals sociological surprises on burnout, fat, Europeans, anxiety, performativity and TV’s Fleabag. By producer Alice Bloch.

Great sociological listening - thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/sep...

The province of tyrants” - paramilitary policing of black and brown Us communities as America turns on itself.

‘Life-saving’ Gaza student evacuations need ‘collective effort’: Gazan students due to begin studies in Ireland and Italy but efforts in other countries remain blocked
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Manchester synagogue attack: What we know so far Two Jewish people died in a car and stabbing attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.

Tragic scenes at Heaton Park Synagogue and loss of life there, and the need in our time for vigilance against all forms of racism and violence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Open Door - It Ain't Half Racist Mum In a programme from 1979, Stuart Hall and Maggie Steed of the Campaign Against Racism in the Media examine their charge of bias on television against black and Asian communities.

Just about to record a conversation with Tom Spare about this extraordinary programme. Stuart Hall was 47 when he made it in 1979 with Maggie Steed It Ain’t Half Racist Mum for Open Door www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Will send x

Abir Al-Sahlani in impressive action 👇

Our latest #Identities issue is now published!

Vol 32 No 5, including a #Symposium on Michèle Lamont's 'Seeing Others'

Explore the issue:
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#LatestIssue

Last call for abstract submissions to next year's @britsoci.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh...

Have you read our latest symposium?

'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter

Published in issue 32.4:
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Ala Sirriyeh Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain’s child migrants https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251366887 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?

@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.

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Photograph of North London branch of Morley’s fried chicken, with its brightly lit, bold red interior and groups of customers chatting and ordering, illustrating research on fast-food outlets as social third spaces beyond home and work.

Key takeaways: “Morley’s functions as an essential ‘third space’: an informal, community-driven place existing between home and work, offering a kind of urban intimacy.”

In our new issue, Safia Banharally looks beyond a London chicken shop’s menu to its underexamined social role.

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“Redmond does not deny that chronic loneliness is a problem affecting many individuals but instead seeks to redefine how we talk about it. Through The Loneliness Room, he provides a rare window into everyday solitude.” Leah Kennedy reviews Sean Redmond

“By asking ordinary people to engage with and share their 'loneliness rooms' – real or imagined – Redmond challenges the medicalisation and problematisation of #loneliness today.“

Leah Kennedy reviews Sean Redmond @manchesterup.bsky.social in our September issue. buff.ly/CWo1OCX

Rows of dozens of bottles of brightly coloured nail varnish on display in a retail outlet, illustrating an article about research into beauty culture and its environmental impact.

More than skin deep? Louise Rondel explains the motivation behind her research into beauty treatments, and the methods she used to connect with salon customers.

Find out more in our latest Sociology at Work feature tailored for #Alevel #sociology study.

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Lifestyle, Migration and Community Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson, Matthew Hayes, Graham Crow Online Wednesday 24 September 18.30–20.00 UTC+1/BST The Sociological Review Foundation Conversations series

TODAY online @18:30: Why did “lifestyle migration” capture so many social scientists’ imagination? How has it travelled in the 25 years since The British on the Costa del Sol?

Join author @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Matthew Hayes & Graham Crow. buff.ly/fHs6cNK

Illustration for The Sociological Review magazine's September 2025 issue. Whimsical drawing of three anthropomorphic flowers – orange, green and black against a brown and cream background – protesting together. One holds a black flag, another shouts through a megaphone, and the third listens intently with blue sound waves connecting them. Artist: Raquel Figueira

Beyond Du Bois: taking a closer look at the sociological concepts that have arisen from social movements, activism and anticolonial resistance.

@alimeghji.bsky.social in conversation with editor Iris Pissaride in The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue.

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Collage featuring a person in a red dress with gears, lightbulb, book, and laptop — representing knowledge sharing and peer review – and held aloft on a paper airplane by a giant hand.

“The backbone of our academic community”: in the September issue of the Magazine, journal editors @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sweta Rajan-Rankin @silkeroth.bsky.social and Maud Perrier celebrate the institution of #peerreview and demystify the editorial decision-making process.

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JOIN OUR JOURNAL: THE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW IS RECRUITING 15 NEW MEMBERS TO ITS EDITORIAL BOARD Apply by 5 December 2025 The Sociological Review logo

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026.

Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community.

➡️ Deadline 5 December buff.ly/wQQwoHU

Image: radio microphone, logo for The Sociological Review Foundation Text: Introduction to Podcasting A Workshop ONLINE Monday 17 November 10.00–16.00 UTC / GMT

Do you want to use audio to communicate your research and ideas? Are you eager to reach new audiences? We have just a few tickets remaining for our Introduction to Podcasting workshop, held online on 17 November with Research Podcasts. Sign up and learn more here! buff.ly/wVLA6Gy

Our latest Sociological & Cultural Studies blog has just been posted. In it Karolina Benghellab discusses the hidden forms of violence and detention that are a deliberate consequence of Europe's increasingly militarised, and hugely costly, border regimes. Please read and share...

I never really thought I had the literary chops for writing fiction, but @awtsn.bsky.social persuaded me to do this for her SO-Fi magazine for the Glasgow special.

Share widely, new job anyone? I can confidently say this is a great role!

Looking forward to an evening of Folklore tonight at @waterstones.bsky.social (Leeds)

Wonderful essay from Karolina Benghellab on the haunted borders of Europe. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci... @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Thanks Ben, will read with great interest. Would be lovely to catch up x

This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London.

Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social

Thank you, interesting to make
an inventory of those changes. I wanted to do a second edition but the publisher wanted an entirely new book. I have written my first bit of scan if fiction for Ash Watson’s So Fi magazine… it’s a horror story and was cathartic. Have a good weekend, Liz.