The internet was integral to the formation of the asexual community. While the details are slightly messier than such an account suggests, the sociologically important aspects of its history can be summarised as follows: Individuals who don’t experience sexual attraction are made to feel ‘broken’, ‘damaged’ or ‘fucked up’ by a culture which places great stress on […]
Month: January 2013
Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London, 28th-30th August 2013 Capitalism and Erotics Organiser: Jason Lim (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the RGS-IBG This session seeks to examine the multitude of ways of thinking about the relationship between capitalism and erotics. Much recent […]
In this presentation I draw on critical realist theories of the person to offer an account of how persons change, or fail to change, over time. I argue that many of the substantive concerns of biographical and lifecourse research can be fruitfully recast as questions relating to personal morphostatis (staying the same) or personal morphogenesis […]
This question has been on my mind a lot this week. Largely because it occurred to me that I have yet to encounter a non-trivial answer to it. Sure, it’s easy to say academic blogging is blogging by academics. But what does this really tell us? Martin Weller has an interesting discussion along these lines in his book the Digital […]
Do you find social media taking up too much of your time? If so then IFTTT could be incredibly useful for you. It allows different social media channels to be connected up using statements of the form IF [x] THEN [Y] – where X is an event occurring on one channel and Y is an action on another channel.When I […]
Call for Papers: Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference Posted on December 3, 2012 by citizenshipandbelonging2013 Call for Papers and Participants for a two-day BSA-Sponsored Regional Postgraduate Event Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference Hosted by the University Nottingham On Monday the 25th and Tuesday the 26th of March 2013 Within Sociology, the study of […]
RESEARCH SEMINARS PROGRAMME Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster All seminars take place in room A6.9 at Harrow campus, University of Westminster All welcome, but please email Dr Anastasia Kavada at A.Kavada@westminster.ac.uk if you’d like to attend [Please scroll down for more information on each seminar and speaker] Date Speaker Title 6 Feb. Ben […]
Reminder: Call for Papers Qualitative and Ethnographic Research (QER): Sharing and shaping pedagogies – learning through doing. May 10th 2013, Department of Drama, University of Exeter, UK. We invite your proposals for papers, presentations, and other forms of dissemination for the HEA funded workshop, QER: Sharing and shaping pedagogies on May 10th 2013. We are […]
CFP: Queer geographies and the politics of anti-normativity RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 28-30th August 2013 Convened by Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Leeds) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group This session aims to critically question queer theory’s political commitment to anti-normativity. It seeks to challenge any rigid distinction between the normative and the […]
The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series starts this term with a seminar session on the topic ‘Women, Work and Family’. The seminar will be held on Wednesday the 23rd of January, 5pm-7pm in the Ramphal Builing, room R0.14. Presentations include: NATALIE WREYFORD, Kings College London – Gender and Networking for Work, Inside and Outside the UK Film Industry LUCILLE NONZWAKAZI MAQUBELA, University of Venda – Work-Family […]
2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA The NWSA Asexuality Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2013 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are orientated towards the full NWSA 2013 CFP which can be found here: http://www.nwsa.org/content.asp?contentid=27 If you are interested in being a part […]
The Social Theory Centre Postgraduate Seminars will take place in the odd weeks of the second term of 2012-2013 in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. This series is particularly designed for postgraduate students interested in all aspects of social theory; whether based in Sociology or other social science of humanities disciplines – […]
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University of Greenwich Business School Work and Employment Research Unit Seminar Series Wednesday 13 February 2013, 2 – 6p.m. EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL MOBILITY: WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AND WHAT CAN BE DONE? Ken Roberts (Liverpool) ‘The real trend in social mobility: from upwards to downwards’ Lefteris Kretsos (Greenwich) ‘The persistent pandemic of Work Precariousness […]
In this podcast I talk to Les Back from Goldsmiths about his Academic Diary project. So what is the Academic Diary? How did the idea for the project come about? What did the process of crafting it entail? Was the experience of producing it different to that of a more traditional publication?
In this interview I talk to Les Back about the opportunities for sociology in a time of crisis. He argues that there has never been a greater opportunity to rethink the craft of sociology than there is at present. He’ll be speaking on these themes at the first BSA Digital Sociology event in a couple of months […]
Though it is a hugely exciting trend, the growth of digital research methods risks becoming a narrow specialism. It is crucial that we don’t fall into the digital dualist trap of assuming that ‘online’ and ‘offline’ constitute distinct realities, as doing so profoundly misrepresents both the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual’. Rather than see digital research […]
How do you feel about academic blogging? If you are reading this then, chances are, you feel reasonably well inclined towards it. However if you are an academic blogger then you will undoubtedly be aware that many people are not so well inclined. This raises an obvious question: why? There are many different answers which […]
What is it about this time in particular that has made asexuality so popular? Why now? Why is it visible now as opposed to 40 years ago?Is it because sex has become the focus of attention? This is a fascinating question. Until the early 21st century, there was no sign of an organised asexuality community […]
5, 6, 7 September 2013 | FCSH, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal | http://egsc2013.pt.to Call for papers and sessions Sexualities have become a legitimate and significant area of geographical research, across diverse areas ranging from cultural, social and feminist geographies, to political and economic domains. One of the main characteristics of studies on sexualities has been its critical […]
