Revisiting Identity Politics: What The Sopranos Gets Right
This is the final post in a three-part series reflecting on questions of racism, violence and identity politics during lockdown. In this post, Dr. Sarah...
Northern Notes: 2020
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Black Lives Matter and The White Society of the Spectacle
In this post, Barnor Hesse and S. Sayyid argue that the latest protests in support of Black Lives Matter illustrate how the racially unfamiliar has...
Who is the terrorist? Silencing political dissent in the age of COVID 19
This is the second post in a three-part series reflecting on questions of racism, violence and identity politics during lockdown. In this post, Dr. Sarah...
Hostipitality
In the poem Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli places her critical lens on a local instance of human suffering to reflect on the global refugee crisis. Hostipitality[1]...
Falling through the cracks? PhDs, inequalities and Covid 19
In this post, Leed's Sociology and Social Policy PhD student Karen Tatham suggests that the inequalities in the PhD process will be further entrenched by...
The local is the new tourist: Sociological perspectives on Italy’s travel market recovery
In this post, Marta Soligo examines Italy's efforts to revive its tourism sector in the era of COVID-19, celebrating the renewed appreciation for all things...
Black Lives Matter and the Limits of White Empathy
This is the first post in a three-part series reflecting on questions of racism, violence and identity politics during lockdown. In this post, Dr. Sarah...
New Publication from Izram Chaudry
Izram Chaudry, who is studying a PhD at the School of Sociology & Social Policy with Professor Nick Emmel and Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli has published...
A Trump Inclusive: Reading Nabokov in the Age of COVID-19
Dr Sarah Marusek questions the universal norms on which 'evidence-based science' rests in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the COVID-19 crisis further colonises...
Religions and COVID-19: Virulent Resistance and Virtuous Accommodation
In this post Dr Abel Ugba analyses the responses of religious groups to COVID-19 restrictions. He concludes that religion remains connected to various aspects of...