“Environmental campaigns to ‘clean and green’ Delhi have translated into selective labelling of the poor and their spaces as the source of pollution and noise.”
Sriti Ganguly & Ruchika Arora write on the human cost of Delhi’s quest for world-class city status in our #TSRMess issue. buff.ly/47Y1bab
“Fear of losing something private and precious motivates how people curate their love letters.”
In our #TSRMess issue, Michelle Janning looks at how, why and where we store our romantic keepsakes, from handwritten notes to text messages.
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Home and away – and back again: young adults who return to the family home, either by choice or through economic necessity, can face challenges as well as stigma, observe Katrina Messiha and Gillian Stokes in our #TSRMess issue.
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Dirty work: cleaners are invisibilised at the best of times. But what about the worst of times?
Munich-based researchers Ali Simon and Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky look at how the COVID-19 pandemic changed cleaners’ working lives, in our #TSRMess issue.
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Busy doing nothing? The “dead time” of waiting may actually comprise our most fertile, productive moments, says Terry S.H. Au-Yeung in his review of In the Meantime (Berghahn Books), edited by Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham.
In our #TSRMess issue:
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“You never knew what these caseworkers will find. A liquor bottle? Condoms in the garbage? The whole future of my family depends upon what this woman sees.”
Tamara Yewchuck’s keen-eyed short story The Visit is an archive selection in our #TSRMess issue.
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Volunteering, fundraising, campaigning – just some of the myriad ways the British express their appreciation for their health service.
Chris Farrell reviews Ellen A. Stewart’s “impactful” book How Britain Loves the NHS (Policy Press) in our #TSRMess issue.
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Delhi’s slums, far from being haphazard, are spaces where social groups organise along linguistic, regional, caste & religious lines. How will burgeoning “clean and green” initiatives affect them?
Sriti Ganguly & Ruchika Arora write in our #TSRMess issue.
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Allotment gardener Annie says she uses the toilet in a neraby café because “The alternative is to piss myself – a cheap option, but less than ideal!”
Researcher Elizabeth Cox writes in our magazine's #TSRMess issue on an inconvenient truth for women.
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”Fear of losing something private and precious motivates how people curate their love letters.”
In #TSRMess, Whitman College scholar Michelle Janning draws on a survey of Americans aged 18-80 to investigate why and where we store our romantic keepsakes.
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Mess and modernisation, class and morality: Chilean researcher Valentina Álvarez-López‘s paper “Uncomfortable stains: Cleaning labour, class positioning and moral worth among working-class Chilean women” is #Freetoview in our #TSRMess magazine issue.
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Flush toilets and plastic bags, civic infrastructure and ideas of civilisation: Stephanie Terreni Brown’s “Maps cannot tell the whole story: Interpreting the shitscape with a mixed methods approach” is #freetoview via our #TSRMess magazine issue.
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“If this is an awful mess, then wouldn’t something less messy make a mess of describing it?” – sociologist John Law
In our #TSRMess issue, Carolin Meyer and Molly Chapman look at exploring social worlds via zines, allegories and visual methods.
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The boomerang effect: what are the unexpected dynamics when young adults find themselves moving back in with their parents?
Researchers Katrina Messiha and Gillian Stokes write in our #TSRMess issue.
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Pedalling furiously: Dhaka’s rickshaw drivers say that inititiatives aimed at organising traffic in the #Bangladesh capital are threatening their livelihood and culture.
Researcher Annemiek Prins writes on police and policies, “chaos”, class and control in our #TSRMess issue. buff.ly/4ahFCmi
“A central message of the book is that waiting is an indispensable part of our life, whether we wait alone or collectively.”
Terry S.H. Au-Yeung reviews In the Meantime (Berghahn), edited by Adeline Masquelier & Deborah Durham, in our #TSRMess issue.
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Delhi’s planners and property owners see the informal settlements of the poor as dirty, disorderly and dangerous.
In our #TSRMess issue, Sriti Ganguly and Ruchika Arora look the impact of the city’s ”clean and green” initiatives on those communities.
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“Household chaos may be familiar, but even our most intimate private messes are societally framed and cannot be disassociated from wider public contexts.”
Asiya Islam introduces our December #TSRMess issue, which turns a sociological eye on disorder. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...
Love storage: from handwritten letters in a box to digital messages in a folder, how do we choose what to keep and where to keep it?
In our #TSRMess issue, Michelle Janning takes a look at the many and varied curatorial practices around preserving our words of love and affection.
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“It was really extreme being a cleaner in the early days of COVID-19. You didn’t know what would happen next.”
Cleaners in Germany tell researchers Ali Simon and Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky how their lives changed during the pandemic. #TSRMess thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...
How deep is your love for the #NHS? Polling repeatedly shows how highly the British value our national health service, but how is this love manifested?
Chris Farrell reviews Ellen A. Stewart’s How Britain Loves the NHS (Policy Press) in our #TSRMess issue.
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What would research methods that take the same slippery and fuzzy form as the things they seek to describe look like? Carolin Meyer and Molly Chapman look for untidy, nuanced ways to understand complex issues. Out now in our #TSRMess issue.
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Disordered thoughts: our #TSRMess issue includes Emma Casey & Jo Littler on #Hinching and housework, Brenda Herbert on parenting and storage space, Annemiek Prins on Dhaka’s rickshaw drivers, Elizabeth Cox on women, allotments and leaks and pees, and more.
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Leaks and pees: how do female allotment gardeners manage their bladder and period in a place without toilets?
In our #TSRMess issue, Elizabeth Cox turns a sociological eye on bodily messes that generally go undiscussed in polite (and patriarchal) society.
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Clean machines: Emma Casey, Jo Littler & Asiya Islam take a look at Mrs Hinch, Marie Kondo, Instagram and “spectacular housewifization". What do sparking joy and sparkling glassware tell us about gender and late capitalism?
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From homes to mental states, #mess takes many forms. It occurs on a larger scale, too: public spaces and economies in disarray. This prompts the sociologically rich question: whose job is it to deal with mess?
Asiya Islam introduces our #TSRMess issue.
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