To mark South Asian Heritage Month we've selected ten standout social science books that explore South Asian politics, history, culture and social change.

Deadline extended: 4 January 2027 Feminist Review invites article submissions. Feminist Review (FR) explores gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships with other social categories and sys…

Organised by Jules Allen, Yasmeen Arif, Asiya Islam, Clare Walsh, and Sibylla Warrington This Symposium examines the “tensions of care” that permeate the everyday practices, politics and infrastructur...

We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

Datacentres, which do not have to report amount of water used to cool servers, leave Environment Agency with no idea of shortfalls

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The 21st century has been branded the age of the global middle class. Against this sweeping claim, ethnographies show that there are as many middle classes as t...

In the TV fictional series Severance, a chip inserted into workers’ brains enables a company to split employees’ work and life selves. As they enter the lift at the corporate office, people transform…

The US Department of Justice has indicted Albert Sangier for defrauding investors with misleading statements about his Nate startup.

The Department of Sociology is deeply saddened by the death of Dr Carol Wolkowitz on March 4th 2025. Carol was a hugely valued member both of the Department and of the Centre for the Study of Women an...

In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. The bookR…

In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. Islam’…

Françoise Vergès talks to Asiya Islam about the relationship between race, class, gender, and waste in the context of capitalism and cleaning work.

Françoise Vergès talks to Asiya Islam about the relationship between race, class, gender, and waste in the context of capitalism and cleaning work.

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