Cancelled Futures How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work

My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th

Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work

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3 days, 15 streams, 700 presentations, our annual conference is our biggest UK sociology event – this year on the theme of 75 Years of Sociology #britsoc26

My latest article in Social Science History revisits the toppling of two controversial statues in Virginia and Martinique. I argue that statue topplings are not shots fired in a 'culture war', but a response to a longer crisis of historical subjectivity.

doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

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Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková

Surplus Lives: Out on the 28 April

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181855/

The book builds an argument that the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s Czechia overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers.

@manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Next week! #Identities online event, in collaboration with Stuart Hall Archive Project at University of Birmingham

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community

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Stuart Hall Foundation @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgcp.bsky.social

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SEMINAR:

🗣️'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
📅1-2.30pm, 23 April 2026
📌Hybrid (Manchester and online)

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Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England.

A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!)

www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

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The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources

📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom

@sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ERS ECR Content Hub Ethnic and Racial Studies is the leading international journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration and forms of ethno-nationalism. These social phenomena are at the…

The publishing process as an ECR can feel uncertain.

We’ve created a hub that covers everything from submission to decision with guidance on peer review, article prep, and advice from our community.

Demystify the journey and submit with confidence.

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Still time to register for our annual lecture this Thursday: Bridget Anderson shares her research on migration and citizenship 👇🏾

University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026:

‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship’
Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...

'I didn't know where to turn': Why ethnic minorities with gambling addictions struggle to get help Research has shown that people from ethnic minorities are less likely to gamble than their white counterparts - but are more likely to suffer harm from gambling and less likely to seek help.

Dharmi Kapadia comments in this piece on the barriers faced by people from minority ethnic groups as they seek help for gambling addiction.

@uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
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V excited to read the published version @sadiahabib.bsky.social! 👏🏾

Young people in museums: representation, anti-racism, and poetry as pedagogy Museums in the UK perpetuate inequalities through colonial collections, problematic artefact narratives and institutional whiteness. Within this context, young people from racialised backgrounds re...

Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper below:

doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Event poster with list of speakers and titles: Alice Swift: Transformatory Experiences of Success and Failure in the Diffusion of the Climate Camp Tactic Across Europe. Lidia Yáñez Lagos: From Project to Process: Tracing a Recursive Inquiry into Memory, and resistance to Repression in Chile’s Social Uprising. Jan Mueller: The Perceived Feasibility of Working Time Transformation and the Ideal Worker Norm: 
Insights on Barriers to Supporting the Four Day 
Week from Organisational Vignettes. Shirley Zhang: The Paradox of AI Intimacy: Dreaming Girls 
and the Emotional Agency of AI in China. Elle Shea: From Structure to Sentiment: 
Rethinking Class through Intimacy.

🚨 Just over 1 week to go until this year's annual Sociology Symposium!
📅 3 Dec 12.30-4pm
📍 Williamson Bldg 4.08, UoM
☕ Refreshments provided

Join us for an afternoon of discussion, debate, and discovery!

Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma… | ... Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma rac...

My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016.

Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/y33k947p

Portrait of Gary Younge and Faber members logo and 10th anniversary badge

FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge

📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website

@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...

📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot

New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
@ersjournal.com

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Meet the expert: Manuela Latchoumaya YouTube video by The University of Manchester- Faculty of Humanities

What if you had a French passport, spoke true French, but were never seen as truly French?

Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies.

Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...

Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working‐Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe This paper examines how working-class young people enroled at college in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. It argues that university represents a great risk, associated with high...

New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ERSNew🐣🔓 By exploring the experiences of French citizens of Indian descent, this article advances our understanding of racialisation processes and racial formation in colour-blind contexts. Article by @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social‬ : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513376

Negotiating the boundaries of Blackness and naming whiteness: the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent This article explores the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France. To do so, it centres the voices of two groups with conn...

My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this.
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

Negotiating the boundaries of #Blackness and naming #whiteness: The racialisation and identity formation process of #FrenchCitizensOfIndianDescent

Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya

The University of Manchester

Coming soon!

#Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation

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SEMINAR. Please join us online or in person (Manchester)

📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy

🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University

📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy Brett St Louis shares his research on the contentious issue of labelling ethnic categories.

Our next seminar:

‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy

🗣Brett St Louis

📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online)

@uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhelpful-...

🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn

📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester

All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
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Free yourself: research, politics and doing (your) right thing Yunis Alam shares his research on insider research, ethnography and the extent to which research can be a political venture.

Our next seminar:

'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing'
🗣Dr Yunis Alam
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online)
@uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-yours...

So cute 😭

Another reason for you to move out of the city centre 😂😂😂