@bsatheory.bsky.social
The Theory Study Group of @britsoci.bsky.social provides a forum for sociologists interested in social theory. If you'd like to join the group then please see our website. #Sociology #BSATheory
Poster for free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’.
Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social
3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Image text refers to: Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
Book now for 'Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
tinyurl.com/4fkrea9z
#sociology
If you've tried to register but the link did not work/indicated that the event is fully booked, we're pleased to announce that the portal should be working once again!
Please visit this page to register for our Theorising from Lived Experience event: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
This event will take place on Friday next week - grab your tickets!
20.02.2026 10:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image text relates to event, Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
Explore the methodological advantages and limits of working from lived experience – book now for ‘Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches’, a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 27 February 2026
tinyurl.com/mu3jrv5a
Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC+0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz Around the poster are also the logos of the organisations supporting it - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of Pluto Press
Hope & Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
3 March '26, 7pm GMT
Online
Join BSA Theory, the Pirate Care authors & reviewers, and other collectives for an online discussion, post-book review symposium publication!
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... @plutopress.bsky.social
The Theory Prize is given to recognize outstanding work in theory. In even-numbered years, it is given to a book, and in odd-numbered years, to a paper; in both cases, eligible items are those published in the preceding four calendar years. The deadline for submissions is March 2, 2026. Self-nominations are welcome. The book should be sent to all five members of the committee either in electronic or paper format. No paper can win more than one section award
Call for submissions!
🔔 2026 The Theory Prize!
⏱️ Submit by March 2, 2026
🔗 Full call and other awards: asatheory.com/theory-award...
Image text relates to a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social 3 March https://tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’.
Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social
3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches A BSA Theory Study Group Event 27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Online
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches
with Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, Sebastian Raza
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
27 Feb 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT)
Online, free - registration required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#Sociology #AcademicChatter #BSATheory
Forthcoming Events 27 February 2026 (3.30-5.00pm GMT) Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Phenomenological Approaches Online 3 March 2026 (7-8pm GMT) Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care Online 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable Online
The BSA Theory Study Group has 3 exciting events scheduled for the coming weeks!
27 February (3.30pm GMT)
Theorizing from Lived Experience
3 March (7pm GMT)
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care
26 March (5pm GMT)
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe
#Sociology #Theory #BSATheory
Attendance is free but registration is required: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#BSATheory #Sociology #Theory
Confirmed speakers include Sita Balani (QMUL), Piro Rexhepi (LSE) and Kristina Millona (Independent Researcher), Barbora Černušáková (Manchester), Amani Hassani (Brunel), and Sabrina Axster (Johns Hopkins). The issue editors, Sarah Bufkin (Birmingham) and Ida Danewid (Sussex), will chair the event.
12.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Online
Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)
Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory
Wonderful to see @academicdiary.bsky.social taking up his new role as President of @britsoci.bsky.social for the coming year!
05.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Image text relates to Sociology’s latest special issue, Sociology under Attack The full issue can be found below. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOC/59/6
Have you read Sociology’s latest special issue?
Sociology under Attack looks at the ideological battle about the role of universities and of social sciences. Find articles on authoritarianism, neoliberalism and sociology's role in current political climates.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOC/59/6
We are delighted to welcome Professor Les Back as BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Les is Head of Sociology in the School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsociology.bsky.social. Thanks to Rachel Brooks as she completes her term as President es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-le...
05.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In September last year (2024, you read that right) I gave the @bsatheory.bsky.social lecture on Academic freedom and the politics of free speech, with reflections on performativity, ontology of social institutions, and - of course - Palestine. It's finally up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH5S...
18.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Image text relates to Sociology under Attack, the new Sociology journal special issue, which is now live
'Sociology under Attack', the new Sociology journal special issue, is now live!
Articles in this special issue demonstrate that the value of Sociology is not restricted to what it does, but how it does it.
Read now below.
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
The book launch was co-organised with The Bauman Institute (baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk) based University of Leeds. The presenters were Tom Campbell, Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Elena Álvarez Álvarez, Martin Aidnik, and Jack Palmer.
#Theory #Sociology #BSATheory
Theory and Society: Zygmunt Bauman Book Launch
If you missed our event (www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26928/...), we are pleased to share that the video recording of the talks is now available on the BSA YouTube channel:
youtu.be/jzPNl3O5Up0?...
#Sociology #SocialTheory #Bauman #BSATheory
Academic Freedom and the Politics of Free Speech with Jana Bacevic
If you missed our event (www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26750/...), we are pleased to share that the video recording of Jana's talk is now available on the BSA YouTube channel:
youtu.be/jH5SIWescAU?...
#Sociology #SocialTheory #BSATheory
The BSA is seeking nominations for the post of Vice President of the British Sociological Association. The new Vice President will then step into the role of President in
January 2027.
Deadline for notations is 10 December. tinyurl.com/bdfb5xvy #sociology
Many thanks to everyone who attended our first event of the 2025/2026 academic year, yesterday!
For future events and announcements, keep an eye on our webpage: www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study...
#Theory #Sociology
ook Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century (Routledge 2025) A BSA Theory Study Group Event 21 November 2025 (14:00-15:30 GMT) Online Registration Registration for this event is OPEN.
21 Nov, 2pm
This seminar will launch the new edited volume, 'Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century', edited by D Brzeziński, K Filipek, K Piwowar, M Winiarska-Brodowska.
Book your free ticket!
The event is open to members & non-members.
The event will be attended by the editors of the book, authors of selected chapters, as well as prominent researchers of contemporary algorithmisation as commentators:
Dariusz Brzeziński
Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska
Robert Seyfert
Nicolas Chartier-Edwards
Noortje Marres
David Beer
#Theory
Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century (Routledge 2025)
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
21 November 2025 (14:00-15:30 GMT)
Online
Free to attend, registration required
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#SocialTheory
Would you like to contribute to Sociology or Work, Employment and Society?
Be sure to submit your application to join the Editorial Boards by 11 November 2025. Details on how to apply or nominate a colleague can be found below.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century (Routledge 2025)
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
21 November 2025 (14:00-15:30 GMT)
Online
Free to attend, registration required
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
#SocialTheory
Image text says How will AI affect society? Find out by booking on 'Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century' a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event on 21 November https://tinyurl.com/4bspp3pr
How will AI affect society? Find out by booking on 'Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century' a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event on 21 November tinyurl.com/4bspp3pr
06.11.2025 08:45 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
