“In South Africa, you start with the world, and then engage the world, so being critically engaged, but maintaining a sociological stance.”

Michael Burawoy talks to @michaelacbenson.bsky.social about living sociology vs public sociology. His final interview, in our latest issue. buff.ly/7XqQe5R

Plenty of brilliant books on display on the MUP stand at #BSA2025!

Featuring titles from some of our key series:
Theory for a Global Age 🧠
Racism, Resistance and Social Change ✊
Rethinking Borders 🌏
Music and Society 🎶

Can you spot yours?🔍

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Yesterday, I was interviewed for an Indian TV programme about the upcoming movie 'Kesari 2', which is hailed as the story of how the truth about the Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was finally exposed to the world. The only problem is that's it's almost entirely fiction...

youtu.be/r-7g08INMSI?...

In Oslo on the 24th of April, for this timely conference on academia and activism (with the co-founder of the BDS movement)

www.saih.no/no/saih-conf...

LOVE TO SEE IT

The boom in indie translations is a great example of how indies can beat big pubs by spotting gaps, taking risks, building patiently. A combo of quick agile pivots and playing the long game, enabled by being free from quarterly profit pressures.

www.thebookseller.com/MessageAgent...

I spy my book :)

Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa, edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy

Got suspended getting an account here. Not a great start?