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Simone Varriale

@simov.bsky.social

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Sociologist at Loughborough University, linktr.ee/simovarr Class, migration, race, culture, music. Migrant cook. He/him.

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Stuart Hall (unexpectedly) on Italianness. From now on I'll be 'the chewy spaghetti at the bottom of the English bowl of pasta'

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

#sociologicalplaylist 6: Stuart Hall's posthumous autobiography. I suggest digging into it to find out what he thought about (among other things) race & class, diaspora, identity politics & Zionism in his later years.

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#sociologicalplaylist 5: a fascinating ethnography of trap music, aspirations and music-making among young migrants and minoritised Italians in Milan (in the context of moral panics about 'maranza', police violence & institutional racism). Really important work & beautifully written (in Italian)

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

#sociologicalplaylist 4: a recent Italian translation of Lea Ypi's work on class and migration. She's a political theorist & sociologists would learn significantly from how she recentres class in debates about migration & racism. The original essays are in English (probably easy to find via GS)

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A fantastic project on ex-industrial towns in the UK which challenges the notion of 'left behind' by focusing on new forms of economic exploitation and political expropriation two-towns.common-wealth.org

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This is what in Naples is now called 'contemporary' pizza (fluffier crust, lighter dough), costed only 8 euros because despite touristification you can still get enormous/delicious sourdough pizzas at 6-8 euros in Naples

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

My mind is still in Christmas mood because I'm reading in Italian (still finishing the books I got during the break)

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My Santa is both antiracist and anticlassist

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Message in a bottle

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Watching Boybands Forever on BBC & this is the salient point. Boy bands in 90s multicultural Britain needed to be white. One black guy was allowed but had to shave his head (Blue). Five black guys (Damage) were refused magazine covers because 'black people don't sell' & did badly in the charts

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#lamicageniale #mybrilliantfriend

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Better than an MCA

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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Spooky Lincoln

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