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March 2025

The interview

Michael Burawoy in conversation His final interview examines public sociology’s role today

Untaken-for-granted! A Sociological Pub Quiz
Date & Times: , 19.30–22.30 GMTLocation: The Salutation Arms, 12 Higher Chatham St, Manchester M15 6ED Register to attend

Join us for an evening of light-hearted competition at the Sociological Review Foundation’s first-ever post-conference pub quiz, taking place Wednesday 23 April at 7:30pm at the Salutation Arms in Manchester. It’s the perfect opportunity to unwind with colleagues after a day at the British Sociological Association’s annual conference.

Uncommon Sense

The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Monthly, with an expert guest, hosts Rosie and Alexis grab hold of a commonplace notion – ANXIETY! DESIRE! BURNOUT! FAT! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space to question assumptions – and imagine better ways of living, together.

Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation

Date & Times: , 18.30–20.00 BSTLocation: Online Register to attend

In the second of the Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, we put a sociological lens on the most urgent issue of our times: Palestine. In an event held in collaboration with Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians (SISP), we will hear from academic, poet and activist Rafeef Ziadah; sociologist Ashjan Ajour; and Cairsti Russell, sociologist and co-director of the documentary Freedom to Run. The conversation will be chaired by Yasmin Gunaratnam, Professor in Social Justice at King’s College London.

Sexed by Susanna Rustin
Reviewed by Laura Hamilton
Susanna Rustin
Sexed: A History of British Feminism
Polity,  2024
ISBN:  9781509559114

Inspired by the recent resurgence in grassroots feminism (or “sex-based rights activism”), Susanna Rustin seeks to understand why this particular revival has been so pronounced and “to establish connections between feminism as it is now and as it was then”.

Feminist Visualisations

Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.

“Feminist visualisations are about opening up knowledge and ways of knowing,” says visual researcher Hannah Buckler. “If someone is really treating you with care, you can make work with care,” adds illustrator Candice Purwin. “If academia disconnects itself from that world, whose interests is it really serving?” asks visual artist Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Three feminist Image-Makers in Residence in dialogue.

Read about the current Image-Maker in Residence
On the left, a collage depicting an eye, red thread and nature, among other elements. In the centre, a collection of digital images featuring three women’s faces and text, including the phrases “structural inequalities” and “I’m not enough, this is not the space for me”. On the right, an illustration of a young blonde White girl lying down in a scaled-down town setting, reading a pictured book.

Feminist visualisations: On the left: Ori, collage by Juno Halina Rauber-Baio (2024); in the centre: still from the introduction video of the project We Can Be Both by Hannah Buckler (2024); on the right: Joyce, illustration from the Teenage Kicks collection by Candice Purwin (2020).

Copyright 2020–2024 Juno Halina Rauber-Baio, Hannah Buckler and Candice Purwin. All rights reserved.

She was not around when I arrived at the corner of the university. I looked again; she was not there. As I was about to reach for my phone to write to her, someone passing by the lights waved at me. It was her. She rapidly waved her hand. I was glad she could see me from afar. But there was no one else around who resembled me. Just because I wanted to be happy, just because I wanted to feed off of her wish of meeting me beforehand, no one should nose in on my happiness. Well, okay.

The Map of Hidden Feelings

Işıl Bayraktar

Exploring Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory
Date & Times: , 10:00 - 17:00 UTC + 1Location: University of Cambridge Register to attend

In this one-day hybrid symposium on 28 May at the University of Cambridge, the event organisers aim to bring together scholars who engage in the ethnographic method for a collective conversation around movement and method.

This event is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series 2025 and has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation. The grant was awarded to Damni Kain and Sneha Annavarapu.

The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is a project of The Sociological Review. It is an educational platform that provides open-access resources for students, teachers and academics who are interested in decolonising school, college and university curricula.

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Toussaint Louverture by Jeanne Menjoulet licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Lowry, Salford

10–12 September 2024

The Sociological Review Foundation’s Undisciplining II conference took place from 10 to 12 September 2024 in Salford, England. Academics and educators, artists and activists, and thinkers and doers across many fields came together to ask: “Who is sociology for?”

The Sociological Review Journal and Monograph Series