Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 25/03/2026www.doingips.org/symposium-2026doingips.orgSymposium 2026 — DoingIPS 010
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Have 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! 101
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliPaula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 21/03/2026This 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 93840260
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliSchool 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... 082
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliHeather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I'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...eventbrite.co.ukEmpires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in JamaicaThe second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making 1119
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Flexible 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...isrf.orgISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups (FG12) 012
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Apply 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... 196
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 10/12/2025EcoMythology 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... 031
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Open 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/... 062
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I 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/... 🌱journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 084
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Can’t wait to read this @sarahelton.bsky.social ! 010
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Out 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 💭! 010
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe 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 052
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Congratulations 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/...thecourier.co.ukSt Andrews rector stripped of powers over Gaza row wins appealStella Maris will resume her role as head of the university’s governing body after a successful appeal against the institution. 08132
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe 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 0134
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliRia 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" 041
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 01/05/2025How 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 054
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliArea @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 137
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025the article is published in @thesociologicalreview.org and it's open access! If you read and have comments, get in touch! 💚🪴journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 122
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025What’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.media.tenor.coma potted plant with a face painted on itALT: a potted plant with a face painted on it 121
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Our 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 03810
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025As 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 0145
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliRowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025So 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...eventbrite.co.ukEros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the USJoin us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press). This event is open to all. 032
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliRevolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century @revsoc21.uk · 22/12/2024The 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...revsoc21.ukWhat’s left of the bourgeois family? On family abolitionrs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century 094
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliDr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Find 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...centreforgender.substack.comBase Women and Beyond: a new project revives and extends feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installationsA collaboration led by Centre for Gender in Politics director, Dr Deiana and Dr Catherine Eschle, University of Strathclyde 181
Reposted by Giulia Carabellie. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The 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 0209
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliEvelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This is happening tomorrow! Check out the poster with info & Zoom link below! 062
Reposted by Giulia Carabellie. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Meet 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 0104
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliGreg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024IMBRICATE! 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. 074
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliSylvia @silbheuig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Spent 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. 041
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024In "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 0458
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliMark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Lots 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/ 243
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliRebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Re-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 +++ 0197
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliThe Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Less than a month to go until our #ChristmasLecture! Book your tickets at the link below 👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-...eventbrite.co.ukChristmas Lecture | Finding Optimism at a time of Biodiversity CrisisIn the face of overwhelming evidence of ecological crisis, how best can biodiversity scientists stay positive and take action? 083
Reposted by Giulia CarabelliRobert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social · 19/10/2024We 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 711136
Reposted by Giulia Carabelliotherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Meet 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...otherwisemag.comMeet the author: Hilal Alkan | Otherwise MagazinePeople 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... 022