Contradictions of wokeness and privilege in the new elite
Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke argues that contemporary US elites claim the language of social justice and identify with progressive causes on one hand while reinforcing…
Tag: Inequality
Our social care systems are failing the most vulnerable
Care Poverty and Unmet Needs edited by Teppo Kroger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues and Kirstein Rummery, brings together twenty-seven social policy researchers from across the Global North to…
Why architecture and urban space are always political
The latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi explores the socio-political nature of architecture and urban…
Jason Hickel, Don Kalb, Maria Dyveke Styve, and Federico Tomasone: Reorganize Production to Serve Life, Not Profit
On 15 May 2025, Jason Hickel – economic anthropologist, leading degrowth theorist and author of popular works such as The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and…
What really worries the world? Q&A with Danny Dorling on The Next Crisis
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
Q&A with Sarah Kerr on Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality
In this interview with Anna D’Alton, Sarah Kerr discusses her new book, Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let’s Talk Wealtherty. The book argues that to tackle inequality today,…
Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring – review
Depletion by Shirin Rai considers the hidden costs of care work, exposing its unequal gendered and racialised distribution across society. Presenting depletion as an innovative way to conceptualise…
[This title is AI generated:] The Risks Posed by LLM-Based AI Tools: A Call to Action for the American Folklore Society
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
[This title is AI generated:] The Risks Posed by LLM-Based AI Tools: A Call to Action for the American Folklore Society
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
Q and A with Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves on Born to Rule
In this interview with Anna D’Alton, Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves discuss their new book, Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite. Drawing on years of…
Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems – review
In Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems, David Edmonds curates a selection of interviews with social science researchers covering the breadth of human life and society,…
Diversity According to Whiteness
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalaya…
Diversity According to Whiteness
Diversity according to whiteness is not about who should occupy the spaces of public discourse, so much as it is about who should have the power to decide…
Reducing Hypertension in Trinidad and Tobago
Author: Daniel Miller The research project Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing which is now close to completion was always intended to also develop some practical projects to…
Book Review: The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor by Stewart Lansley
In The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor, Stewart Lansley explores how public policy has shaped economic inequality in Britain since the nineteenth century.…
Technologies of Equal Participation: Formats, Designs, Practices. Introduction.
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Svetlana Borodina Photo by Gareth David on Unsplash Only tod…
Book Review: The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike Savage
In The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past, Mike Savage explores how inequality has surfaced as a pressing cause for concern over the past…
It’s Not “Just” a Symbol
“Tails” side of the new U.S. quarter featuring Maya Angelou The new Maya Angelou quarter is a symbol, yes. But not “just” a symbol. Because, symbols matter. If…
More Persistent Inequality: Farmworkers and Your Food
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read…
Rafael Wainer: COVID-19: Complicity, complacency, and connections
Image 1: Social distancing signs. Photo by ©Acabashi CC-BY-SA 4.0 To understand the massive world-disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic we need a sociology of complicity. Since the different…
Animating Stories of Global Migration
Who gets to tell the story of human migration around the globe? And what kind of story is it? The Story of Migration, an animated short illustrated by…
#BookReview: Digital Divisions
In the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights about technological use within schools given in Matthew…
The Moral Economy of the English Football Fan in the Twenty-first Century
In late April of this year, it was announced that twelve of the wealthiest and best supported teams from across Europe would be competing in a new competition…