The biopedagogies of sugar - public lecture by Professor Karen Throsby
Lecture
Join us for a public lecture by Professor Karen Throsby, RSSS Visiting Fellow in Sociology, titled "The Biopedagogies of Sugar: Self-Knowledge, Intervention, and the Fantasy of Liberation." In the second decade of the 21st century, sugar supplanted dietary fat as the dietary enemy du jour. In the…
The Gender Revolution in an Islamic Society: Stalled or Still Unfolding? Cohort Dynamics in Gender Role Attitudes in Pakistan from 1945 to 1994
Seminar
The recent literature on gender role attitudes (GRA) in western societies suggests that after achieving greater egalitarianism the upward increase in GRA has plateaued. However, evidence of this plateau remains scarce globally, especially within Islamic societies. In this paper, we examine the…
Turning to the Sensed Unconscious
Seminar
Abstract: As we live our daily lives, our senses generally seem something that we “have,” not something that we “do.” But people learn that they have to develop sense abilities when they enter a wide variety of occupations and activities. This paper examines the techniques and strategies involved…
Book Launch - Counterrevolution by Professor Melinda Cooper
Book launch
Join us for the launch and reception of Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution (Zone Books, 2024), in an interdisciplinary conversation with Aditya Balasubramanian, Will Bateman, and Ben Spies-Butcher. Neoliberalism is as extravagant as it is austere, and this paradox needs to be grasped if we are to…
Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
Seminar
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation –where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to…
Do climate models leave us cold? Devices, felt-virtualities and the sociology of heat
Seminar
The paper seeks to ground heat and temperature more sociologically. The starting thought, which is possibly completely wrong, is that the modelling of global average temperature undertaken by climate scientists over the last few decades, is affecting a wide range of experiences of heat. Not only is…
Representing Identity in Online Networks
Seminar
Researchers often know very little about social media users other than their public actions on a platform (for example, posting, sharing, liking) and when these actions occurred. In this sense, big data has been described as “thin” in that it lacks information on social context and the motivations…