Jonathan G. Heaney

ESA-RN 11 “SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS”

Some updates to the programme and some information around food and travel have been added to the ESA RN11 midterm conference website. See here: esarn11midtermconferencebelfast.wordpress.com

#emosoc #RN11QUB

Why the last Sunday in July was celebrated in Ireland of old Known as Garland Sunday, Bilberry Sunday or Reek Sunday, it was a day to mark the end of Hungry July and anticipate the harvest to come

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: why the last Sunday in July was celebrated in Ireland of old. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social looks at the history of and traditions around the day known as Garland Sunday, Bilberry Sunday or Reek Sunday www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

I'm on leave, and just back on 'the island' after a wee family sun holiday (first one in years). I really enjoyed reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. I know I'm late to this particular party, but parts of it were truly outstanding, even if the ending divides people. Recommended.

Emotions and Society "Emotions and Society" published on by Bristol University Press.

📣 🚨 Last call for our Emotions and Society call for papers!

'Emotions, Ageing and Environmental Change: Making sense of current and future worlds'.

🌟 Submit today! (Deadline 15th July)

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#EmoSoc @jonathangheaney.bsky.social #sociology #SocSky

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Currently enjoying The Incandescent by Emily Tesh - just out. I recently read Ammonite by Nicola Griffith - brilliant; Titanium Noir and Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway - great; loved Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford; Project Hail Mary is enjoyable fluff to read under an Azores High (film out soon).

Condolences, Josh.

I don't know why anyone determined to buy a book online in Ireland wouldn't get it from this place, genuinely.

#EmoSoc @jonathangheaney.bsky.social #sociology #SocSky
#socialGerontology

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If you'd like to run away to the 1660s and have an adventure featuring sapphic romance, sword fights, pirates, werewolves, and vampires, instead of thinking about... [gestures widely], the ebook of THE VENGEANCE is currently on sale for 99p! geni.us/Solarissale Any boosts gratefully received!

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

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I might just buy a small farm in the West of Ireland and be done with it!?

Yeah, I guess some of us might. But most will likely just 'ask the oracle', and take those answers as 'Truth'. This would be a massive re-centralization of informational power.

The Politics of Feeling The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:

mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...

What happens when 'the internet' as we understood it becomes a digital desert? What is the point of websites and pages that no one ever looks at because no one ever finds?

Her politics are not relevant to what I'm talking about.

Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame? Rachel Reeves’s distress may help destigmatise an emotional response to pressure or professional frustration

If I get time, I might write something more sociological about 'Reeve's tears' than this but it is the connections between emotions, gender, and power that need to be unpacked here.

#emosoc #soc3053

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Feudalism Is Our Future What the next Dark Ages could look like

If you missed this when it came out last month, it is worth reading.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How do emotions shape modern masculinities?
From online performances to political movements, we're calling for research that looks at the complex emotional lives of men for a special issue of #EmoSoc
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
#Masculinity SocSky #genderstudies

Artwork of A US flag made chicken wire where the stars should be, and barbed wire instead of stripes.

By Aïda Amer
www.aidaamer.com

International Sociological Association (ISA) suspended the Israeli Association some days ago. The Israeli Association has reacted with a BRILLANT statement.
more infos in the comments

Uppsala University is hiring:
One to two Associate Senior Lecturers in Sociology

Students on the “Divided Societies” strand of the AHSS International Summer School (Queen's University Belfast ) heard from three ex-combatants today. They discussed their experiences of the conflict and the peace process. Thanks to Michael, Lee and William for their time.

Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Excellent, timely, and sobering paper by @leadavid.bsky.social and @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social on Gaza, genocide, and the sociology of war. The overall conclusion suggests that what we are seeing in Gaza may indicate the future of organized conflict. Recommended.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to give the first keynote of the 38th ISSR conference in Kaunas, on “Sociology of Religion and Conflict: A Roadmap for Times of Crisis”. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

English political establishment up in arms because an Irish guy said something it didn't like.

Then a Black guy said something it didn't like.

If a dog says something it doesn't like, that's all of us on the sign accounted for.

Nationalism as a Way of Life Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Nationalism as a Way of Life

I am glad to say that my new book 'Nationalism as A Way of Life' will be published in December with the Cambridge University Press.
More information about the book:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

In reactionto multiple announcement of panel organizers and participants to boycott the upcoming ISA conference in Rabat, the International Sociological Association just decided to suspend the collective membership of the Israeli Sociological Society (see: www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...)

Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky