Approaching Research on Lactation After Infant Loss with Heartfelt Positivity: Some Mindful Reflections
Seminar
The heartfelt positivity methodology has been developed to focus on what is working well in society, to ensure stories of survival, value, and a meaningful life are shared in the face of hardship, and to intentionally create more positivity in the world through academic research (Penttinen, 2014).…
Votes at 16: What can we learn from the Scottish independence referendum?
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In September 2014, 55% of the eligible electorate in Scotland voted in favour of remaining within the United Kingdom. The preceding referendum campaign led to an unprecedented surge in political engagement in Scotland. Part of the democratic impetus arose from an extension of the franchise to 16‐17…
The 'Haves' and the 'Have Yachts': The Impact of 'Super-Gentrification' in London
Seminar
In this talk I will revisit the literature on (super-) gentrification in order to interrogate recent socio-spatial changes in some of London’s most affluent neighbourhoods. If gentrification is understood as any process involving a change in the population of land-users in which the new users are…
(Im)mobility in the City: Space-Time-Power and “Staying in” in a Sudanese Diaspora
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This presentation draws upon qualitative material obtained for a PhD project which considers how Sudanese women’s lives in the “new” city of Portsmouth (UK) become spatially and temporally ordered through the seemingly mundane everyday spaces they inhabit. More specifically, this presentation…
From 'Renegade Academia’ to the ‘Dark Enlightenment’: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
Seminar
In the 1990s Nick Land worked in the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) at the University of Warwick. Drawing upon a heady mix of Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, Manual De Landa, Cyberpunk, drum and bass, drugs and much else besides, his work is often cited as a major source of…
A Conversation with Professor Roger Burrows
Seminar
Professor Roger Burrows is a prominent and highly regarded British sociologist with varied interests in: the impact of unsustainable home ownership on children, families and health; residential mobility in the social rented sector; the geodemographics industry and the social implications of geo-…
A New Sociology of Empathy
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This presentation begins with a consideration of the rise of empathy in public and academic discourse. Today, it is common for politicians and academics to treat empathy as a virtue. While politicians view empathy as an intrinsically positive social phenomenon that can improve the moral fabric of…