The COVID-19 pandemic represents the tragic symptom of our social structures. Stating that humanity produced the current health emergency would be considered by many disrespectful towards many human beings who…

Since it began to gather momentum at the turn of the 21st century, the sociological study of animals and society has struggled for legitimacy. Although some sociology programs are beginning…

Drawing on my ethnographic doctoral study which analysed the UK experience of the 2009- 10 H1N1 influenza pandemic using an actor network theory (ANT) approach (Hale, 2016), there are transferrable…

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…