If your case against divestment is that the university would lose too much money, then universities ought to wonder why they’re profiting from genocide
Stuart Hall: 'postcolonial is not the end of colonisation. It is after a certain kind of colonialism [] in the wake of it, in the shadow of it, inflected by it, it is what it is because something else has happened before, but it is also something new'
Just received the copies of my book for
@politybooks
! Seal of approval from reviewer 2 and very kind endorsements from two scholars whose work I greatly admire
#soctwitter
Check out my new paper in
@SocTheory
based on my 2023
@britsoci
plenary: showing how anticolonial groups (Zapatistas, BLM, Palestine Action, Cops Are Flops) produce soc theories that can orient professional sociology toward relational forms of analysis
Nice to have found out I secured a British Academy/Leverhulme small grant and Cambridge CHRG to kickstart my project on the historical sociology of Pan-Africanism 1900-1958
You can pre-order The Racialized Social System here! A book I was thinking about since graduate school. Endorsed by three amazing scholars who have shaped my thinking on the topic, including Bonilla-Silva, whose work first introduced me to this approach
In case anyone is writing a paper on white identity politics in US, and the insistence on not wearing masks. Please feel free to use the paper title 'White Skin, No Masks'
I am looking to commission some more pieces on *Race and Class* for the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism. If you are interested or know people who are interested please do reach out
#soctwitter
Very excited to be joining Sociology Compass as a co-Editor-in-chief. I will be overseeing the new RESEARCH ARTICLES section which we are now accepting! Editorial board positions now available!
‘I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea... Not a single tea plantation exists within the United Kingdom. This is the symbolization of English identity... There is no English history without that other history’
Tonight at UCL. I'll talk about the need for sociology to reject methodological nationalism, learn from publics, and to embrace historical method + reject methodological presentism. Presentists want to call Gaza a conflict rather than a colonial genocide
My flight to NYC has been cancelled so I can't go to the Schomburg Center in Harlem. If anyone near is available for five days' (paid!) work please do get in touch with me! It requires just photographing archive documents for a research project
#soctwitter
#academictwitter
I reviewed George Steinmetz's brilliant Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought here: in short: a tour de force in the historical sociology of sociology, challenging some of the anti-sociological takes on decolonizing soc
#soctwitter
'Decolonising [] has become the new lexicon in [] British universities [] it is estimated that British Universities collectively invest almost £500m in companies which are complicit in Israel’s colonisation of Palestine'
@decolonialcommi
in 2022:
Alert: I am starting a YouTube channel where each episode will have a guest. We will play Fortnite duos and chat about your area in sociology. Please DM if you are interested in taking part, it is intended to engage some younger people in key themes in sociology.
@CamSociology
A critical synergy sent off to the world of production. Coming to you hopefully next year with Temple! An interplay between CRT and theorists of the decolonial tradition 😎🥳
Co-authored chapter on 'race and racism' in Elgar handbook of political sociology with
@SeethaTan
. we show how classical sociologists of race (e.g. Du Bois) were de facto political sociologists (but also force us to rethink tenets of classical pol-soc)
Goldsmiths have the most innovative sociology department in the UK. Goldsmiths Management's plan to attack sociology, and other depts, is the latest in UK higher ed's campaign of anti-intellectualism
#notadonedeal
Goldsmiths Management have come back to us after consultation and still plan to make many of us redundant- 133 people. But it is
#notadonedeal
. Ways to support us. 1. Make a noise! Join this mornings Twitterstorm 2. Donate here to the support fund
I reviewed Hall's selected writings on Marxism, and on Race and Difference, leading to some reflections on 'Johnsonism' and 'Starmerism'. highlighting Hall's emphasis on lateral analysis: ‘the connections which race contracts with other things in society'
Significant drop in future funding announced for UK Arts and Humanities PhDs - 'AHRC expects to fund one quarter fewer PhD students, reducing from 425 to around 300 new studentships per year by 2029 to 2030.'
The attack on arts, humanities, and soc sciences increasingly disturbing. It's not just Kent making these decisions, and not just arts/humanities/soc sciences at risk, but the whole of UK higher ed. They are turning universities into trainee schemes for tech bros and consultants
My BSA plenary is online here, where I explore what sociology can learn from anti-colonial, abolitionist sociological movements! reach out by email if you prefer the written script!
I have written to university administration asking if they will take these student and staff concerns seriously. Urging all other Cambridge ppl - especially permanent faculty - to also convey the urgency of this situation, and the necessity of divestment for a free Palestine 🇵🇸
Doing archival work today from home... from Du Bois: 'The colonial system caused ten times more deaths than actual war [...] Poverty and extreme poverty in colonies was a main cause of wealth and luxury in Europe’
Early BJS papers reflected the colonial interests and anxieties of the collapsing British empire. As one of the four co editors with
@SamFriedmanSoc
@aaronsreeves
and
@RebsFE
we hope, among many things, to reflect the interests of post/decolonial social scientists
We're thrilled to introduce our latest addition to the editorial team,
@alim1213
from
@CamSociology
.
Ali's research bridges critical race theory and decolonial thought, exploring the convergence of epistemological, methodological, and empirical approaches.
Find out more⬇️
@ShawntaeMitchum
In this book countless race scholars, inc Aldon Morris and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, talk about how their PhD projects didn't define their overall research careers (especially because the field of sociology itself changed / needed to be changed) :)
Finally got around to submitting this paper after beginning to write it (in my head) 5 years ago... not particularly happy with it, but DM if you want to take a look...
#soctwitter
BJS have now published my critical race theory people in an issue. It stems from when I started graduate studies and came across Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's racialized social system approach
Profs from Cambridge claiming student encampments create exclusionary spaces in unis. Bruh, in Cambridge colleges students are not even allowed to step on the grass...
It is beyond ridiculous that people applying to temp posts often have better CVs than the professors interviewing them. Uk academia needs extreme change VERY soon
"Precarious academic jobs (which are often more exploitative than developmental) stunt the intellectual and professional growth of ECRs. It is difficult for anybody to engage in creative research when placed in short-term positions with limited autonomy"
Starting tomorrow with
@jana_bacevic
on epistemic positioning and epistemic injustice. Exploiring questions like 'Must Black and minority ethnic academics write on "race"?' and 'Who gets cited in bibliographies, and who gets credited in acknowledgments or footnotes?'
Open to all!
Save the dates! This year's Sociology Seminar Series, convened by Dr
@alim1213
⬇️ Tuesdays 12:30-2pm (UK), via Zoom for students and livestream for members of the public
Speaking out for justice should not be risky, but it is.
@Jairo_I_Funez
was suspended for supporting Palestinian liberation in clear violation of the principles of academic freedom. We need our institutions to meet this moment.
Save the dates! This year's Sociology Seminar Series, convened by Dr
@alim1213
⬇️ Tuesdays 12:30-2pm (UK), via Zoom for students and livestream for members of the public
I am on sabbatical and will be in the US
@HutchinsCenter
for March 2024! HMU on am2059
@cam
.ac.uk if you're interested in a talk on my book 'race, decoloniality, world crises'
@TempleUnivPress
or on my current archival work on anti-colonial roots of Black sociology
#soctwitter
What a brilliant experience to be able to present this plenary today, covering du bois to bob dylan, at
#britsoc23
- it’s been an amazing conference bringing together amazing people
On the Theory & Society scandal: this is not a coup of ‘science’ over ‘non-science’ or data-driven sociology vs. non-data sociology. T&S had been publishing theoretically informed and rigorous social science for decades. This is a takeover by a wing of sociology…1/8
Problem is not just Sunak - too many think you can STEM your way out of crises. Eg in climate. Again Santos speaks the truth - coloniality prevents the North from thinking in non colonial terms
Looking forward to
@Cambridge_Uni
Annual Race Lecture to be delivered in person by Prof Ruha Benjamin
@ruha9
from
@Princeton
on 2 November at 17:30. Promises to be excellent. Please plan on attending in person. Register here:
6/ Conclude with this point. Racism exists because some people benefit from its existence. As Bonilla-Silva puts it: 'Therein lies the secret of racial structures and racial inequality the world over. They exist because they benefit members of the dominant race.'
David Cameron launched full assault on ‘multiculturalism’ (eg 2011 Munich speech), expanded prevent, expanded carceral apparatus in schools, and plunged generations into poverty. No social progress here… 🍆 🐖
Paper now live! What can the sociology of race learn from the histories of anti-colonialism? reviewing
@AdomGetachew
's Worldmaking after Empire,
@PriyamvadaGopal
's Insurgent Empire, Desai's United States of India.
#soctwitter
Please join on 26th Feb 10AM for a *Decolonizing Sociology book launch* on Twitter! Would love to hear your thoughts + questions and I will be tweeting out a thread via
@DecolSocCam
of the main themes I cover in the book!
@CamSociology
@politybooks
The irony in trying to make a career from reactionary criticisms to critical race theory, while misunderstanding the CRT point that racism isn’t racial prejudice 😬🤷🏾🤦🏽♂️
3/ It's important to then think of racism not as something 'getting better' over time, but as something built into the foundation of society (present and past). Racism is not an issue of 'bad apples', but of the roots, soil, fertiliser, and shaky trees.