Birgan Gokmenoglu

Excited to join Lara Monticelli, Torsten Geelan, and Jan Groos to co-organise the Alternatives to Capitalism Network @sasemeeting.bsky.social! Check out the Network, our new call for papers, and guidelines here: sase.org/networks/i-a...
@bcusociology.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

24 October in London at 6:30pm I'll be at the After Collective event on capitalism and its alternatives with Panos Theodoropoulos @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social Join us for an inspiring discussion, antii-capitalist solidarity & pizza! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4nv7s7rb

oh right. see you soon =)

Thanks, Fadia. Hope you're doing well.

Excited to be a part of the BSA Theory Group over the next few years!

TODAY: Publicly available online panel on Critical Pedagogies and Praxis in and Against Capitalism @sasemeeting.bsky.social, organised by me and Yasemin Bavbek. Check out the link for the panel description, papers, and Zoom link here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

I'll be at the @bsatheory.bsky.social BSA Theory Symposium @camsociology.bsky.social on Friday May 23rd, discussing how to do social theory. See the programme and the participants below 👇👇

Thank you, Nerea, that's great to hear!

The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory A BSA Early Career Regional Funded Symposium (organised by the BSA Theory Study Group) 23 May 2025 University of Cambridge, UK About the Event The process of producing social theory is often assumed to be self-explanatory within academic institutions. With the current ‘crisis’ of higher education and intensification of academic precarity disproportionately affecting theoretical scholarship, centres, departments, and institutes, the co-organisers of this Symposium wish to create a space for Early Career scholars interested in social theory to receive feedback on their ongoing research/papers and discuss the day-to-day experiences, challenges, and opportunities of continuing to undertake theoretical scholarship. We are honoured to announce that our guest discussants are Sarah Bufkin (Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham), Birgan Gokmenoglu (Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University), Teodor Mladenov (Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Dundee), and Kristin Surak (Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics).

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Only 2 days left (including today) to submit a short paper for the BSA Theory Symposium!

Discussants:
🟢Sarah Bufkin - @unibirmingham,
🟣Birgan Gokmenoglu - @MyBCUm,
🟡Teodor Mladenov - @dundeeuni,
🔵Kristin Surak - @LSEnews.

#Sociology #SocialTheory #AcademicSky
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Last but not least, Felix Ringel's Afterword on #Time and #Politics reflects on how the two are co-constituted & its implications for social transformation and the social sciences. We thank him again for his careful reading and considerate insights.🧵

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The chronopolitics of the ‘Left Behind’: Presentism, populism, and Global Britain - Kirsten Forkert, Zaki Nahaboo, 2025 This article examines the “Left Behind” as a temporal construct and its political uses. In the UK, the “Left Behind” is predominantly discussed as a group of pe...

🧵In The #Chronopolitics of the #LeftBehind, Kirsten Forkert & Zaki Nahaboo draw on #presentism and #populist temporal #narratives to study how the Left Behind in the UK is constructed by varied temporal frames and narratives of Global Britain.

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🧵Neda Genova, in View from the Window, builds on #rhythmanalysis to examine a Bulgarian language fb group during #Covid19 #lockdowns. She shows how a/synchronicity relate to the articulation/obfuscation of sociomaterial conditions.

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🧵Ann Mische & Sehrazat Mart's Imagined Interventions focuses on public interest #scenario projects in the African context. They show how different #genres of scenario projects lead to temporal splitting and #strategic action.

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🧵Birgan Gokmenoglu & Gabriela Manley's #Hope and #TimeWork in #Dystopian Contexts compares fieldnotes from Scotland and Turkey. They expand the concept of time work & argue that generating hope requires both emotion work and time work.

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🧵Colin Ruggero's Planning for Anything, not for Everything examines the #Philadelphia Action Council (PAC) towards the contested 2020 US elections. He argues that the temporal structure of PAC led activists to embrace uncertainty, allowing for adaptability.

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🧵Lesley Wood writes on #Temporal #Conflict and Challenging the #Police through an analysis of fieldnotes of protests in Toronto and NYC, govt and police docs, and media coverage. She argues that temporal properties shape contention and strategic decisions.

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🧵In our short Introduction, we emphasise the collective nature of temporal agency & time's relation to #power, #inequalities, and #social #change. For a brief thematic summary of the issue and the contributions, find our intro here:

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🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically.

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Have a look at the articles in the SI, maybe there's something in there for you!

Naked fieldnotes by elliott & wolf-meyer!

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Intro to the SI #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is published! Coauthored by me and Colin Ruggero. Drawing on time's entanglements with power, inequality, and social justice, we reflect esp. on collective temporal agency: @timeandsociety.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Afterword: Time and Politics - Felix Ringel, 2024

Felix Ringel's insightful Afterword to our SI Political and Transformative Uses of Time is out! He focuses on the co-constitution of pols & time thru a close reading of the SI's contributions. See here:
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This will be a great day of workshopping and discussing ways of doing theory at @camsociology.bsky.social in May. I'll be one of the discussants, w/ Sarah Bufkin @unibirmingham.bsky.social, Teodor Mladenov @dundee.ac.uk & Kristin Surak @lsesociology.bsky.social. Here's the cfp for ECRs:

About the Event The process of producing social theory is often assumed to be self-explanatory within academic institutions. With the current ‘crisis’ of higher education and intensification of academic precarity disproportionately affecting theoretical scholarship, centres, departments, and institutes, the co-organisers of this Symposium wish to create a space for Early Career scholars interested in social theory to receive feedback on their ongoing research/papers and discuss the day-to-day experiences, challenges, and opportunities of continuing to undertake theoretical scholarship. We are honoured to announce that our guest discussants are Sarah Bufkin (Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham), Birgan Gokmenoglu (Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University), Teodor Mladenov (Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Dundee), and Kristin Surak (Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics).

Submit your short paper for ‘The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory’ Symposium by 28 Feb

- a space for Early Career scholars interested in social theory to receive feedback & discuss day-to-day experiences & challenges of undertaking theoretical work
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