The social codes and class identity of tech workers
Robert Dorschel‘s The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers. Drawing on interviews with American and German data scientists and…
Robert Dorschel‘s The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers. Drawing on interviews with American and German data scientists and…
Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the 2016 Brexit Referendum created (rather than revealed) two opposing political identities in the UK: Leavers and Remainers.…
Performing Power by Marcus Morgan develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of (and struggles over) power, in politics and beyond. Analytically…
Maren Larsen‘s Worlding Home is a study of UN peacekeeping camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing them as dynamic, porous and embedded in city life. Larsen…
Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.…
Preventing Violence by Keir Irwin-Rogers, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie and Tim Newburn examines the UK’s public‑health approach to reducing violence and challenges to imp…
Ching Kwan Lee’s Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle combines history, ethnography and sociological analysis. According to Lucas Tse, the author’s account of political tra…
In this reading list inspired by LSE’s discussion series, Universities in the Age of Polarisation, Kevin Wilson selects six books that explore different aspects of polarisation – f…
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…
The novel, Heap Earth Upon It, set in a remote village in Ireland 1965, explores the repression of sexual freedom and queerness in a society in the grips…
City of Equals by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit examines what it means for one citizen of a city to feel equal to another, despite different experiences and…
A Mouse in a Cage by Carrie Friese explores the ethical challenges of using animals in scientific research. Through ethnographic case studies from UK labs, Friese probes the…
Taking a photograph of her grandparents as its jumping off point, Indignity by Lea Ypi blends memoir and historical enquiry to explore her grandmother’s life and the period…
Caste: A Global Story by Suraj Yengde explores caste from both a Dalit and global perspective, critiquing caste’s enduring structures and calling for justice in India and beyond.…
Alex Mayhew’s Making Sense of the Great War examines how British soldiers coped with the horrors of the trenches during the First World War. Delving into primary sources…
Didier Eribon‘s memoir, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman was prompted by the occasion of his mother being moved into a nursing home when…
In The Great Betrayal, Fawaz Gerges examines the reasons for consistent political instability in the Middle East since the early 20th century. Examining Western intervention, domestic authoritarian ru…
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…
Markus Holdo’s Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism examines how citizens engage with and leverage power through participatory institutions in capitalist societies. The book is meticulously res…
The Precariat in Western China by Xueyang Ma examines the experiences of workers in precarious employment in Ya’an, a city in Sichuan province, Western China. Drawing on interviews…
How does perspective shape the choices we make? In Decisionscape, Elspeth Kirkman explores how applying artistic principles – distance, viewpoint, composition and framing – to decision-making can help…
This is the playlist link for 30 Minute Methods 30 Minute Methods is a series of short talks by sociologists, anthropologists and film/media researchers where the debate about…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….