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Giulia Carabelli

@giuliacarabelli.bsky.social
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📚SL Social Theory (QMUL)🪴Houseplant Lover and Researcher 🌱/ 🐈‍⬛ Digital Cat Lady/ 🖤Witchy things 🖤🌈 IG @careforplants

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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Have you ever blown out a candle and made wish? Do you cross your fingers for good luck? Jamie Matthews and I are hosting a one-day Symposium at Queen Mary University of London to investigate the needs for rituals in contemporary life.22 April 2026 (Earth Day).Get your free ticket/Join the chat!
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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame
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School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University @qmulsse.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
#ClimateActionWeek2026 continues at SSE today with the gardening club. Open to beginners & the plant-curious, the Gardening Club is a student- and staff-led initiative that reclaims unused space to grow flowers and herbs, and host plant-related workshops. More info 👇️ www.qmul.ac.uk/about/sustai...
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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🩷🌱🩷 bring more plants into your life
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴 Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...
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Empires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in Jamaica
The second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition (FG12) Deadline: 5pm GMT (6pm CET), Friday 13th March 2026 Offering flexible support for a period of (up to) one year for the activities of a small research group. isrf.org/competitions...
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ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups (FG12)
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Apply Now! Our 8th Mid-Career Fellowship competition aims to support independent-minded researchers to explore & present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. #SocialScience #Humanities #Arts More Info: isrf.org/competitions...
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
EcoMythology online winter symposium, Jan 17-18, 2026. From Nordic Summer University. "learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood or your life." 40/70/100€. Register by Jan 11, 2026. woodwidewebstories.com/2025/12/06/e...
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Open access article by @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination "...making intentional space for plants in our life can cultivate a different sensibility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱
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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Can’t wait to read this @sarahelton.bsky.social !
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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Out now! This paper discusses home-making practices with houseplants during the Civid-19 pandemic … when my current project ‘Care for plants’ started! The article is open access and part of fantastic collection of essays on place making with plants 🌱 if you read it, let me know what you think 💭!
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 16/05/2025
“It’s a marathon and things take time. This was important for me in the pandemic where everything felt so urgent.” – Ava, houseplant carer @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on how plants can alter our relationship to time. #OpenAccess buff.ly/JdCkrU4
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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St Andrews rector stripped of powers over Gaza row wins appeal
Stella Maris will resume her role as head of the university’s governing body after a successful appeal against the institution.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 02/05/2025
🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. 🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online 🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"academia talks collaboration but builds systems (promotion, funding, community recognition) that often undervalue diversity, whether that’s diversity of discipline, publication type, or research approach"
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 01/05/2025
How does caring for houseplants reshape the habits and rhythms of everyday life? @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on human-plant relationships, forms of attentiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic. #OpenAccess buff.ly/JdCkrU4
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📢March Issue of Area📢 The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers. 11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Inside the Notebook'. The papers are: 

1) Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes
Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham & Tatiana Thieme
2) Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago
Soledad Martinez
3) Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin square
Julia Dzun
4) Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival
Eveleigh Buck-Matthews
5) Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London
Nathaniel Telemaque
6) Voice notes in the car: Capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees
Charishma Ratnam
7) Fieldnotes as never really 'raw' data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank
Alasdair Jones
8) The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood
Tatiana Thieme
9) Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park
Jack LaytonA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 
1) Training young co-researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews
Catherine Walker & Ellen von Holstein
2) Feminist visualisation challenges: Methodological innovation, opportunities, and lessons learned
Kate Coddington & Jill Williams
3) Pedals and throttles: Ride-along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cycle and motorbike taxi drivers
Sarah Turner & Binh Nguyen
4) (Pragmatist) geographies of rankings
Gerhard Rainer
5) Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training
Jonathan Harris
6) Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies
Franziska Paul
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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What’s in a houseplant craze? Dawn Lyon and I wrote about how human-plant relations nurtured during lockdown unexpectedly reshaped people’s experiences of temporality and rhythm in everyday life.
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a potted plant with a face painted on it
ALT: a potted plant with a face painted on it
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our Folklore Reimagined season begins. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Ronald Hutton FBA delves into England's witch trials and Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. Watch the full video on YouTube: buff.ly/4W0OR4p
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
As our Folklore Reimagined season continues, Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar explores the postmillennial wave of djinn-themed horror in Turkish cinema –where Anatolian folklore, Turkic shamanism, and Islamic mythology collide in stories of black magic and demonic possession. buff.ly/OOZJk0E
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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
So excited for @stoffelalex.bsky.social 's book launch for Eros and Empire. Sign up below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e... Find the book here: www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the US
Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press). This event is open to all.
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Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 22/12/2024
The call to abolish the family is back, sparking fierce debate on the left. As capitalism reshapes how we live and relate, Alex Stoffel asks if breaking free from the family’s grip can open the door to true liberation. revsoc21.uk/2024/12/22/w...
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What’s left of the bourgeois family? On family abolition
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Find out about our new project, Base Women and Beyond. Inspired by Cynthia Enloe's pathbreaking work, we seek to revive and extend feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations #AcademySky #PoliSky #IRSky #FeministSky centreforgender.substack.com/p/base-women...
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Base Women and Beyond: a new project revives and extends feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations
A collaboration led by Centre for Gender in Politics director, Dr Deiana and Dr Catherine Eschle, University of Strathclyde
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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The recording of our “Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Thru Zines” event is up! Check it out for some fascinating and inspiring discussion! geoz.one/blog/storyte... #geosky @lbnaylor.bsky.social @jaredmargulies.bsky.social
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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is happening tomorrow! Check out the poster with info & Zoom link below!
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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
can’t wait for this !!! ✨
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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Meet the panelists for our upcoming "Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Through Zines" event (12/2 at 4pm Eastern)! Anne Pasek is a zine-maker who works on decarbonizing the uni and the internet! Register for free at bit.ly/4f40aRm @apasek.bsky.social #geosky
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Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect. Due Date: 31 December 2024 (abstracts: 10 December 2024). 100-1500 words. Published 20 January 2025. Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or some minor variation thereof) in its essay title.
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Sylvia @silbheuig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Spent this morning reading both issues of the Victorian Vegan. Some fascinating insights into early veggie journals and culture in the first issue, even if it's a bit all over. Second issue is very good, more structured and some fascinating essays on the veggie communes and anarchist interactions.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In "Prosthetic Memories," Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, & technologies across South Korea & the US to outline alternate modes of memory & connection that can enact feminist & decolonial politics. Read the intro for free now: ow.ly/QQGa50U7RYE
Cover of Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World by Hyaesin Yoon. Cover features of photo of a white, branch-like sculpture. Multi-colored ceramic scales extend from the branch, each supported by metal rods. The title is written in a gray, all-caps text.
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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Lots going on in the world of #planthumanities this autumn... here are some events in London or online that have crossed my inbox: 21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead: www.slbi.org.uk/events/
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Re-posting this ICYMI. 12 articles and creative contributions on feminist methodologies and futures covering computer games, classrooms, disability, Black feminist speculative approaches, baking, websites, workshops, non-linear reading, multi-species flourishing, friction, patchwork ethnography +++
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Less than a month to go until our #ChristmasLecture! Book your tickets at the link below 👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-...
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Christmas Lecture | Finding Optimism at a time of Biodiversity Crisis
In the face of overwhelming evidence of ecological crisis, how best can biodiversity scientists stay positive and take action?
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Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series. Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself. More information below. Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
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otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Meet the author: Hilal Alkan An interview with editor Laura Moran "With living, photosynthesizing plants to observe closely, these metaphors become even more poignant and precise" www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...
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Meet the author: Hilal Alkan | Otherwise Magazine
People often 'plantify' themselves when describing their experiences of moving, suffering, and trying to create new lives – or struggling to do so. With living, photosynthesizing plants to observe clo...
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