The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

Author Julian Go discusses the article "," published in the September 2026 issue of Sociological Theory.

This essay speculates on Frantz Fanon's intellectual relationship with Vietnamese anticolonial thinkers, including but not restricted to Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969) and Trần Đức Thảo (1917–1993). We ex...

Frantz Fanon, the radical psychiatrist and anti-colonial philosopher, was not a sociologist but has shaped so much sociological thought. Julian Go reflects on his life, work and significance - includi...

6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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The US president’s hunger for new territory feels outdated to this historian. These titles give context to his goal of control.

The boomerang is already in flight in the U.S., a sociologist says.

America is back 🇺🇸 https://t.co/clnZQXHxWF

This radical supplement to the editorial of ROAPE’s Fanon special issue raises awareness of how Fanon’s ideas, in the year of his centenary, continue to provoke fear and anxiety within the Western imp...

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Vision and method in global historical sociology - Volume 49 Issue 1

Professor Julian Go delivers the second University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture.

Imperial policing, extreme force and the supposed perils of ‘mesearch’

Join the first AISSR lecture of the 2025-2026 series, that will be kicked off by professor of Sociology Julian Go (University of Chicago), exploring social dynamics, structures and the impact of empir...