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.

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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 following is a guest post by Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author. They called them “aid distribution centers.” Orwell himself would not have thought of a better term. Every day, shortly after …

This text is posted on behalf of the sociologists listed at the end of the text. Others are welcome to sign via comment or by contacting one of the original signers. We are sociologists (and many o…

The US president’s hunger for new territory feels outdated to this historian.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.