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I have always been the person who worried about the looming crises of the time: nuclear winter in the 1980s, Y2K in the late 1990s, fires and earthquakes when I…
My neighbour cleaned out his shed yesterday. He’s doing it again today. People are running out of things to do it seems, ways to occupy their time, and it will…
We are in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic and the impacts are huge: from individual tragedies, to the collapse of organisations and unprecedented pressures on health and welfare…
This month we have five copies of Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism by Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff to give away. This volume approaches questions…
The coronavirus has made the familiar strange in a lot of unprecedented ways. At this uncertain and challenging time, as a sociologist it is fascinating to watch society being made…
The dominant discourse around ‘eating disorders’ suggests that in order to help individuals with these conditions, we should improve clinical knowledge and lay ‘awareness’. We need ‘reduced stigma’ so that…
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to emerge, the sociological dimensions of the crisis become increasingly apparent. From the global mobilities of people and the underlying goods, services and markets that…
To all BSA members and sociologists. All staff in the BSA office are working remotely in response to the Coronavirus situation, in an effort to support measures to slow the…
It is with a heavy heart that the British Sociological Association (BSA) must announce the cancellation of our Annual Conference in Birmingham (21-23 April) and our Postgraduate Conference (20 April)….
