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Sociology 52: 22: Discussing Islamophobia in Peterborough
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Sunday, 6 November 2011. 22: Discussing Islamophobia in Peterborough. I helped to organise an event held in Peterborough last week and billed as a ‘fact finding’ visit looking at the issue of Islamophobia. I am very grateful to colleagues from Peterborough Race Equality Council and from University Centre Peterborough whose hard work made the event a success. Have pointed out) the parallels between the two eras and two minority group experiences are striking and revealing. Cambridge, United Kingdom. I hav...
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Sociology 52: 13: Machado and Silva: Forensic DNA in Portugal
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010. 13: Machado and Silva: Forensic DNA in Portugal. Interestingly in 2005 the Portuguese government contemplated creating a universal forensic and identification database arguing that such an approach would provide humanitarian benefits and “avoid discrimination”. Instead Portugal has followed the lead of other countries in establishing a database of the ‘criminal population’. The rules for inclusion are in comparison with the British case very strict. Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Sociology 52: 3: Sarah Franklin gets Sheepish
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Sunday, 21 February 2010. 3: Sarah Franklin gets Sheepish. A drawback of the ‘what I am reading this week’ conceit of Sociology 52. Is the requirement to confess to books that I really should have already read but never have. Sarah Franklin’s study of the world’s most famous clone – Dolly the Sheep ( Dolly Mixtures: the Remaking of Genealogy. 2007]) - falls into that category. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cambridge, United Kingdom. I am Reader in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
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Sociology 52: 18: Blencowe: Rethinking Contingency and Racism
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Friday, 4 March 2011. 18: Blencowe: Rethinking Contingency and Racism. I have published previously on the changing politics of race and science ( see here. And on the unsatisfactory role that 'biology' plays in standard sociological accounts of racism ( see here. Unsurprising perhaps I enjoyed Claire Blencowe's. Paper given at HPS, Cambridge 'Biosociality to feminist-eugenics: rethinking contingency and racism in twentieth century sociological science'. Part of the assertion of authority by the bourgeois...
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Sociology 52: 20: Yuval-Davis: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging
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Thursday, 22 September 2011. 20: Yuval-Davis: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging. I turned to Nira Yuval-Davis's paper 'Belonging and the Politics of Belonging' ( Patterns of Prejudice. In search of conceptual clarity as I begin further work on the Technologies of Belonging. Project with Katharina Schramm and Amade M'Charek. If you are the sort who likes conceptual frameworks (as I am) then you'll find this a worthwhile read. 2) Identifications and emotional attachments. Yuval-Davis views identi...
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Sociology 52: 21: The Age of Extremes
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Saturday, 22 October 2011. 21: The Age of Extremes. The Age of Extremes. Is a documentary by the independent film-maker Ishmahil Blagrove. It was released in 2010. I was asked to introduce a showing as part of Cambridge Black History Month. These were my opening remarks. The Age of Extremes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cambridge, United Kingdom. I am Reader in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. View my complete profile. 22) Discussing Islamophobia in Peterborough. 15) Philo: Me...
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Sociology 52: 5: Ehrenreich and Hochschild on the Global Economy of Care
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Sunday, 7 March 2010. 5: Ehrenreich and Hochschild on the Global Economy of Care. I have been reading Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild (eds) Global Women: Nannies Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. 2003) in order to prepare for a class on ‘the global economy of care’. Ann Oakley’s Housewife. Housework, as you may recall from the feminist theories of the 1960s and 1970s, was supposed to be the great equalizer of women. Whatever else women did – jobs, school, child care R...Since t...
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Sociology 52: 4: Tufte on PowerPoint
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Sunday, 28 February 2010. 4: Tufte on PowerPoint. Edward R. Tufte,. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within,. During a great visiting lecture by Sean Cubbit ( which can be seen here. He mentioned Edward Tufte's wonderful little book(let? Formats, sequencing, and cognitive approach should be decided by the character of the content and what is to be explained, not by the limitations of the presentation technology.". Implicit in Tufte's analysis is another question: how and why did P...
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Sociology 52: 16: Castells: the Future of Capitalism
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Saturday, 23 October 2010. 16: Castells: the Future of Capitalism. Largely by coincidence, the weekend following the horror show of the Comprehensive Spending Review. Saw an interesting series of events in my home town all focused on the future of capitalism. On Friday I attend two talks organised by the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University by Manuel Castells. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cambridge, United Kingdom. I am Reader in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
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