@silkeroth.bsky.social
sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Today is the third anniversary of the publication of our book. At a time when imperial powers are grappling with their limits the concepts of this book cant be limited to #internationaldevelopment. White saviorism exists across multiple factions and elements of our world.
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Video still of Professor Shahram Khosravi delivering The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025. A middle-aged man with a white beard, looking down while speaking into a microphone, in front of a computer screen.
WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025
Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé.
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Scotland folk!
Join me for the launch of my book OCCUPIED REFUGE on Friday, 6 March 2026, 4-6pm at University of Glasgow.
To order the book in the UK & Europe: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313... (Discount code: E26BRNKM)
It’s a free, in-person event and everyone is welcome! You can sign up below:
Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year – and where hope lies today
A Conversations series event @thesociologicalreview.org with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, @anilsghost.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me.
28 Jan. 1-2pm GMT Online
Join us!
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK
Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPadda👇👇#ResponsibleAI
rai.ac.uk/new_projects...
28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie.
🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
📅 Online 1-2pm
➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx
Save the date for the 13th event of our INTERACT conversations:
(Not) everyone welcome? Insights from social psychology on selective solidarity with refugees
w/Tijana Karić @unimarburg.bsky.social & Jannis Grimm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/convers...
CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
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A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance':
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...
I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. It’s great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.
12.01.2026 02:36 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0its a great piece!!
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The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 1 with contributions from Yasmin Gunaratnam Esperança Bielsa Rin Ushiyama Nathan Manning Jacob Lypp Emma Dowling Sara Eldén Zuzana Uhde Kate Reed and Anna Balazs Gareth M. Thomas Giulia Giorgi Emma Jackson and Agata Lisiak https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/1
OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
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very impressive!! thank you for sharing!
31.12.2025 13:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
“Both are essential reading for anyone interested in social justice, activism & the challenges of bringing about meaningful social change.”
@silkeroth.bsky.social reviews @mperezbrower.bsky.social & @drashleec.bsky.social
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daumen sind gedrückt
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"[O]ur institutions have become toxic, performative, and mechanistic .... To subsist and survive, too many of us respond by concealing, isolating, and pushing ourselves to breaking points" (Kenworthy et al., 2025)
#HigherEd
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Tenure track juniorprofessorship in education and communication of material culture, Oldenburg University
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“Slow and Sudden Violence is a good starting place for general readers who are interested in demystifying their assumptions about the uprisings in the US cities of Ferguson and Baltimore.”
Vladimir Rizov reviews Derek Hyra’s @ucpress.bsky.social study of uprisings and their causes.
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Video still of Professor Shahram Khosravi delivering The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025. A middle-aged man with a white beard, looking down while speaking into a microphone, in front of a computer screen.
WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025
Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé.
buff.ly/742ITKk @uofgsociology.bsky.social
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond thrilled to announce that my book „Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds“ came out this week! 🎉
A thousand thanks to all the lovely people who have encouraged and carried me through this journey! 💕
Thanks to Mari Tefre for the most wonderful cover photo!
Get your copy or free e-book here ⬇️
Many people ask me what they can do as autocracy closes in. In this season of holiday giving, consider using your gift money to support crucial charities that have been defunded by the US government. Forbes has done your homework for you.
13.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The government is proposing a new rule that will require people from countries that are US allies and friends and who do not now need visas for short-term stays to submit to intrusive investigation of their social media posts for 5 years. You can object -- see how to "comment" below!.
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CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The body of USAID is barely cold, but the academic dissection already begins ;)...on a more serious note: This sounds like an excellent project with a great team (limited to 2 years, but at least a 100% position (not always the norm at German universities...).
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The Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year 2024 Our winner: “An ‘unfathomable hatred of Islam’: Ethno/graphing the trial for the Québec City mosque massacre” Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy and Sarah Arnal
🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆
Kudos to Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy and Sarah Arnal, whose paper’s “unique approach to public sociology, and use of visual art and collaborative ethnography” was chosen by the jury from among all 2024 papers in our journal.
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Agentic misalignment /when an AI system’s drive to fulfil its purpose overwhelms the moral or human-centred boundaries we impose \ is no longer a thought experiment from sci-fi; it is documented, analysed and debated by human researchers in 2025:
www.anthropic.com/research/age...
Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3.15-4.15 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from early Jan - mid-Feb?
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