Only a few months to go until my book Social Ladders is published. It is written for anyone interested in social mobility, class, housing, and urban inequality.
We now have the final cover (designed by Brian Rea), some very kind endorsements from early readers, and a publication date (08/26)...

Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility - AMCIS In this talk, Dr Anthony Miro Born (London School of Economics and Political Science) critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Tomorrow, we host @miroborn.bsky.social for an AMCIS Seminar on "Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility" where he will critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Info and registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
@aissr.bsky.social

Meritocracy from below: Dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood

Anthony Miro Born

Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4

doi.org/10.1080/1360...

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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🌟 @miroborn.bsky.social was awarded the Outstanding PhD Researcher Impact prize for his project "From PhD Research to Comic: The Price of Social Mobility".

This award recognises excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research.

Soon: @miroborn.bsky.social on wealthy neighbourhoods—how affluence gets its aesthetic, its status, its power. ✨
🗓️ july 2 | 12:15 | room 309 @isi-munich.bsky.social
Also: he made a comic about class, mobility and how moving up doesn’t always mean fitting in: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

Thanks to @davidjmadden.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social @cteeger.bsky.social @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @katharinahppe.bsky.social @sfb1265.bsky.social @benbrundugonzalez.bsky.social and others for their insights on various aspects of this article/the research project!

Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood The ideal of a meritocratic society continues to exert significant normative power in political and public discourse, including in discussions about marginalised spaces and neighbourhoods. However,...

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods:
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Out now #OpenAccess!📖
'Intersectionality and the City' brings together intersectional and spatial perspectives to sharpen our understanding of urban inequalities.
Edited by @miroborn.bsky.social, @ckulz.bsky.social, @sungungang.bsky.social & Lucie Bernroider ⬇️
www.routledge.com/Intersection...

Gratulation!

Many thanks, Linus! And if anyone needs copies, just let me know ✉️

Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

Miro Born stands smiling at the camera and holding his comic

cover of the comic, showing a woman climbing a ladder. The text reads 'Miro Born, Irem Kurt, Movin' on up: a social mobility comic'

a page from miro's comic, showing a conversation between a group of people

📚 From Research to Comic: @miroborn.bsky.social's Exploration of Social Mobility 🔗

Together with illustrator Irem Kurt, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthony Miro Born created a short comic on social mobility.

Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

Read the comic 👉 www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

I received these comics by @miroborn.bsky.social on growing up in a stigmatized neighbourhood and subsequent social mobility in the mail today. Great example of knowledge dissemination!

Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

How can it be that journal editors now take well over a month (and often two or three months) before an article even enters the review process...

Peer Review in 2025.

Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025

CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.

Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

Very interesting Special Issue! @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

Interesting new paper looking at how class ceiling effects are driven by stigmatising cross-class interactions in universities and the workplace

If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise! Organising as workers to build industrial power within our universities is a key element of how we respond to redundancies, marketisation and other political pressures on higher education. This piece...

I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university.

It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wow.

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Online seminar with Troels Schultz Larsen and Kristian Nagel Delica, who will present their book Fragmenting Cities, with a special focus on the emergence, life and effects of the "ghetto list" in Denmark. March 4 at 13:15 CET. Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#urban #sociology

What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025?

Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series.

📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025
🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB

Wealth, poverty and enduring inequality: let's talk wealtherty Public event at LSE | Sarah Kerr, Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar, Frank Soodeen | Weds 19 February, 6.00 to 7.30pm

Exciting lineup for the launch of Sarah Kerr’s brilliant new book on wealth inequality at LSE Next Wednesday evening. Do sign up!

www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

🚨Job alert 🚨

I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸

The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!

Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...