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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/09/2026

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:5, featuring 16 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide, guest edited by @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/KuDpTMf @journals.sagepub.com

The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 5 With contributions from Gala Rexer, Kirsteen Paton, Karis Campion, Hala Shoman, Mai Taha, Rana Sukarieh, Shereen Fernandez, Waqas Tufail, Isabel Frey, Ben Rogaly, Sociologists for Palestine, Katherine Appleford, Fatima Rajina, Sonya Sharma, Angela Man Xu, Josephine Browne, Phil Crockett Thomas, Iveta Ķešāne Maija Spuriņa, Diana García-Catena, Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Dennis Nickson, Malene Lue Kessing, Peter J. Hemming, Anna Strhan, Joanna Malone, Sarah Neal, Kate Summers, Daniel Edmiston, Ben Baumberg Geiger, Jo Ingold, Lisa Scullion, Robert de Vries, David Young

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode about 20th century philosophy and biography David talks to the historian and literary critic @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social about the life and thought of Hannah Arendt. What did it all mean for the human condition? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 08/09/2026

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 12 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in January 2027. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 16 October buff.ly/mPov5pd

Join our Journal
The Sociological Review is recruiting 12 new members to its editorial board.
Apply by 16 October 2026.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 26/08/2026

LAST CHANCE! Join us on 2 September for our Public Lecture with Angela Saini — plus our very first Public Sociology Awards. 📍 SOAS Gallery | 5.30–9pm Book now: buff.ly/6yYIFh8

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 16/06/2026

Sociological Perspectives on the Far Right: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Deadline: 13 August 2026 Editors: @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mirandaioss.bsky.social @jandob.bsky.social Apply now: buff.ly/8O8vYHu

Sociological Perspectives on the Far Right
Journal Special Section
Call for Expressions of Interest
Apply by 13 August 2026
The Sociological Review

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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 08/06/2026

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May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

And the Home Office provides virtually zero routes through which these nationalities can claim asylum in the UK without making the dangerous and illegal crossings that it so hates 🫠

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 12/03/2026

To Tell A Story edited and published for the first time by Benoît Bourreau, explores John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century. Offering a rare glimpse into the minds of two intellectual giants of the twentieth century.

A paperback copy of To Tell A Story by John Berger & Susan Sontag floating on top of a stack of books against a grey background

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 11/03/2026

⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0

Welcome To The Journal
The Sociological Review Is Welcoming 20 New Members To Its Editorial Board
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

RIP to the legendary Michael Silverblatt. Here he is talking to John Berger in 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLiv...

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John Berger and Michael Silverblatt - part 1

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Just up on the Telegraph, a thorough and thoughtful piece about the wrongheaded policy changes at WAC. Thanks to Kate Murphy, @illuminations.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social and @marklewisohn.bsky.social for giving up their time. Gift link here www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...

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The BBC scandal of 2025 that went unnoticed

The Written Archives Centre has closed its doors to the public, despite being funded by the licence fee

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 18/12/2025

"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

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I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt

It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Sort of a weird headline for the Guardian given that it’s published in a European country where neither of these things are actually “normal”

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miked1977.bsky.social @miked1977.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Everyone needs a Nick Mohammed in their lives, what a great guy #traitors #celebritytraitors

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Remembering John Berger on his birthday 🎂 📷 Ara Güler, 2002 "In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless." - Susan Sontag

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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Glad to finally have a copy of my own of 'After The Last Sky' (Edward Said & Jean Mohr), after first borrowing it from the library in July 2023 📚 🇵🇸 Always had a soft spot too for the final picture in the book, 'the photographer photographed'.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We’re going to make migrants read Ian McEwan? Now that’s a hostile environment.

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

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May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The idea that digital ID cards will stop people working in the shadow economy and thus reduce small boat crossings is baffling The very nature of the shadow economy (the only way asylum seekers can find work) is employers don’t check documents.. That would obviously continue with ID cards

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/09/2025

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point

How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Private Eye

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Nicanor Parra, trs. Lerzundi & Van Voorhis

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 17/09/2025

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 02/09/2025

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

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