Another banging roundtable by the BSA Theory section. Unfortunately, we can't record these sessions, so if you're interested, do register to attend👇👇
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This was such a lovely gathering. What a great start to the new group🎉

Coming up soon! Join us for an activist archive tour with food and drinks on 10 April in Manchester. For registrations, DM us or drop us an email at asmrstudygroupbsa@gmail.com

The SI is earmarked for the European Journal of Cultural Studies! Contact me or Kristina if you'd like to see the full call for papers.

This will be gooooood!

Call for Abstracts: "When Creativity Confronts Crisis: Navigating the Polycrisis Through Arts and Media Activism"

Editors: Kristina Kolbe & Birgan Gokmenoglu

Deadline for abstracts (250-300 words) and short bios (150 words): 23 March 2026

Contact me or Kristina with any questions and submissions!

Glad to be joining The Sociological Review's editorial board💫

I am proud of being a part of this new group on Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions within the British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social. We'll soon announce the details of our launch event at the 2026 BSA Conference in Manchester, so follow us if interested in radical change!

Thank you Fadia 💜

This was a great conversation on radical forms of care, political organising, resistance, burnout, and much more. If you'd like to watch the recording, it's now available online.

Looking forward to this conversation today at 7pm GMT.

First seminar of a series of three starts next week! Our speakers will be Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, and Sebastian Raza. For info and registration visit: tinyurl.com/yxfu2dra

Pirate Care - Pluto Press Inspiring stories of real life and often risky activism resisting the global criminalisation of care

...and you can find the book here: www.plutobooks.com/product/pira...

Book Review Symposium for Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak (2025). Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity - Postdigital Science and Education Postdigital Science and Education -

You can access all the contributions to the book review symposium here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

the BSA's Theory Group @bsatheory.bsky.social, the Marxism and Disability Network @marxdisability.bsky.social, and by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab

Hosted by the Vagabonds series of @plutopress.bsky.social, the @alternativesatsase.bsky.social Alternatives to Capitalism Network at @sasemeeting.bsky.social, the Center for Commons at @universityofessex.bsky.social, Centre of Advanced Studies at @unirijeka.bsky.social,

Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care (3 March 2026, online) - VAGABONDS Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity contends that, today, our movements for collective liberation are increasingly defined by the calling to care for one another in defiance of...

Online event (3 Mar) on Criminalised Care, Hope & Solidarity based on responses to the book Pirate Care. I'm looking fw to discussing radical care as praxis across various initiatives with the authors and contributors. Link to register: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... vagabonds.xyz/hope-and-ref...

Book Review Symposium for Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak (2025). Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity - Postdigital Science and Education Postdigital Science and Education -

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I was lucky to be invited to contribute to this wonderful initiative led by @cerasellachis.bsky.social for @pdse.bsky.social. It was refreshing to think about all the pirate carers around the world with so many contributors. I wrote on Re-Politicizing Care for Social Change. Link in first comment.

🥳🥳The Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network is now live on bluesky. Click on the link to find out more about the Network, its wonderful organisers (incl. me) and the Network's call for papers for SASE 2026 in Bordeaux. The deadline to submit an abstract is 16 December 2025⏱️⏱️

Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism | SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics The broad aim of research Network I is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.

Interested in Alternatives to Capitalism🔨? Our call for papers for the 2026 SASE Conference in Bordeaux is out! Deadline: 16 December 2025. We encourage pre-formed panel submissions and individual papers. Looking fw to renewing our faith in humanity. @sasemeeting.bsky.social sase.org/networks/i-a...

Excited to join Lara Monticelli, Torsten Geelan, and Jan Groos to co-organise the Alternatives to Capitalism Network @sasemeeting.bsky.social! Check out the Network, our new call for papers, and guidelines here: sase.org/networks/i-a...
@bcusociology.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

24 October in London at 6:30pm I'll be at the After Collective event on capitalism and its alternatives with Panos Theodoropoulos @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social Join us for an inspiring discussion, antii-capitalist solidarity & pizza! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4nv7s7rb

oh right. see you soon =)

Thanks, Fadia. Hope you're doing well.

Excited to be a part of the BSA Theory Group over the next few years!

TODAY: Publicly available online panel on Critical Pedagogies and Praxis in and Against Capitalism @sasemeeting.bsky.social, organised by me and Yasemin Bavbek. Check out the link for the panel description, papers, and Zoom link here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

I'll be at the @bsatheory.bsky.social BSA Theory Symposium @camsociology.bsky.social on Friday May 23rd, discussing how to do social theory. See the programme and the participants below 👇👇

Thank you, Nerea, that's great to hear!

The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory A BSA Early Career Regional Funded Symposium (organised by the BSA Theory Study Group) 23 May 2025 University of Cambridge, UK About the Event The process of producing social theory is often assumed to be self-explanatory within academic institutions. With the current ‘crisis’ of higher education and intensification of academic precarity disproportionately affecting theoretical scholarship, centres, departments, and institutes, the co-organisers of this Symposium wish to create a space for Early Career scholars interested in social theory to receive feedback on their ongoing research/papers and discuss the day-to-day experiences, challenges, and opportunities of continuing to undertake theoretical scholarship. We are honoured to announce that our guest discussants are Sarah Bufkin (Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham), Birgan Gokmenoglu (Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University), Teodor Mladenov (Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Dundee), and Kristin Surak (Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics).

Number 2

Only 2 days left (including today) to submit a short paper for the BSA Theory Symposium!

Discussants:
🟢Sarah Bufkin - @unibirmingham,
🟣Birgan Gokmenoglu - @MyBCUm,
🟡Teodor Mladenov - @dundeeuni,
🔵Kristin Surak - @LSEnews.

#Sociology #SocialTheory #AcademicSky
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