Monthly Archives: May 2013
Genre, Boundary Drawing and the Classificatory Imagination (and a special issue on Field Analysis and Cultural Sociology)
A special issue on Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology has just been published in the journal Cultural Sociology. It’s been edited by Mike Savage and Elizabeth B. Silva. The issue covers a range of topics from art, to music, to … Continue reading
Football and numbers
I’ve posted before about the use of statistics in football. The Numbers Game: Why everything you know about football is wrong by Chris Anderson and David Sally has now been published by Viking. This looks to be a detailed account … Continue reading
Public geography/sociology and social media
The new issue if Dialogues in Human Geography contains a forum on public geography and social media. The articles are currently open access. The section focuses on geography, but the issues discussed relate to broader discussions around public engagement and … Continue reading
A return to ‘Can academics manage without Twitter?’
A couple of months ago I posted a short blog entry under the heading ‘Can academics manage without Twitter?’. It was only a short post, of around 400 words, but it attracted attention in a way that I’ve not experienced … Continue reading
An event on Post-Crash Cities: Urban Economies
CURB, the centre for urban research at York, have been running a series of events on the post-crash city. The next event is a three day conference on urban economies. It includes Jamie Peck as a plenary speaker. The details … Continue reading
Looking for Facebook phrases that have become everyday discourse
My colleague David Hill is trying to put together an article that reflects on Facebook terminology that has become part of everyday discourse. This is a really creative idea. He is trying to build up a glossary of terms that … Continue reading
The State of Race
My colleague Nisha Kapoor has co-edited a new collection titled The State of Race. It looks great. Here is the brief outline: What can be said of the state of race? Or more specifically what can be said about the … Continue reading
Digital by-product data and the sociological imagination
Tomorrow I’m running a session on ‘Digital by-product data and the sociological imagination: Imagining the future of social research’ for PhD students in the WhiteRose Doctoral training centre. The details of the event are here. The session will cover a … Continue reading
The new Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is getting closer
The new Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is getting closer to its launch. I’ve got a short essay on music and the city in the first issue (there is a post about this here). There is a really interesting publishing … Continue reading
Video games and affect, an interview with James Ash
The Theory, Culture and Society blog have an interview with James Ash. The interview focuses on his recent articles in the journals Body & Society and Theory, Culture & Society. It’s a detailed interview that reflects on the way that … Continue reading
Thinking culture 