New Sociological Perspectives

16/11/2023

📢 REMINDER - We are seeking book reviews for our next issue from graduate students or early career academics. Please e-mail us at [email protected] to note your interest📖

reviews

13/11/2023

Happy Monday 🌞
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT📢 New Sociological Perspectives is urgently looking for book reviews for its next issue. If you're interested, e-mail us at [email protected] to note your interest. We welcome book reviews from graduate students and early academics.

07/11/2023

📢 Get to know the team📢
Paulina Motyl joined as an Editor whilst studying for an MSc in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is passionate about interdisciplinary research as she received a BSc in Criminology and Sociology from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her current research interests lie in the sociology of the family, gender, science and technology studies and qualitative research methods.

03/11/2023

📢Get to know the team!📢
Patrick Higgins joined NSP as an editor in 2022 before receiving his MSc in Culture and Society from the LSE. His research interests are focused on Marxian and Bourdieusian theories of class, practice theory, phenomenology, divisions between leisure and work, and temporal experience. He currently works for Ubiquity Press from his home state of Idaho in the United States.

Send us an e-mail at [email protected] if you would like to work with us and find out more about the journal!

31/10/2023

In 'Salford, Bucking the Trend: Examining the Strength of Labour’s Heartland in Brexit Britain', Tallulah Jessica Ann Eyres seeks to understand the conditions that permit the City of Salford to remain a Labour Party. Eyres delves into working-class resilience and solidary among local citizens: https://buff.ly/3MeXJPh

This study seeks to understand the conditions which have enabled the City of Salford to remain a resilient Labour Party bulwark whilst other ‘Red Wall’ constituencies shifted their allegiance to the Conservative Party post-Brexit. Through an empirical investigation of Labour’s trad...

29/10/2023

To start your week right make sure to have a look at our articles📢 📢 In volume 3, issue 1, Soneghet provides an ethnographic portrayal of care as a practice and construes the consequences of nearing death as a 'burden of finitude'. This sociological article offers an innovative understanding of care as a social action and answers important questions:

This paper aims to contribute to current discussions on care in the social sciences through an exploration of care work in contexts of dying. Based on ethnographic work conducted in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I discuss the implications of caring for oneself and others, while managi...

09/10/2023

IMPORTANT NEWS! 🎉 👏
After months of work, reviewing and writing volume 3, issue 1 has finally been published.
You can view it and download it at: https://buff.ly/3PQZO5e
Happy reading! 📖

21/08/2023

🚩 Happy Monday everyone! We've extended the deadline for you to submit your abstracts to our Journal - New Sociological Perspectives is a graduate Journal based in the LSE Sociology department and published by Houghton St Press. We accept submissions from a variety of fields.

The new deadline is 27th August. Here’s the link to submitting your abstracts:

https://buff.ly/3DYHXUu

New Sociological Perspectives (NSP) is a graduate journal based at the London School of Economics (LSE) Sociology department and published by Houghton St Press. We are currently seeking extended abstract submissions for our third issue, to be published in winter 2023.

17/08/2023

If you're interested to join an , , here's your chance! is recruiting — any early career sociologists are welcome. Deadline: 11th September, 2023. Click here to apply and learn more! https://buff.ly/3QITLS9

15/08/2023

📢 We're still looking for peer-reviewers who would like to collaborate on the journal and help review work completed by graduate researchers. Our journal showcases innovative, experimental and critical sociological work. If you're interested, sign up using the form below. We look forward to welcoming you ☺️

New Sociological Perspectives is a graduate Journal based in the LSE Sociology department and published by Houghton St Press. It is open to graduate researchers based in both UK and overseas universities and publish two issues a year. The journal aims to showcase innovative, experimental and critica...

11/08/2023

Exciting news🎉 We are thrilled to announce that our fourth issue with engaging articles will be published soon. Keep an eye out for more details in the coming weeks. In the meantime, go to our website to have a read of our previous articles: https://buff.ly/47q3QJS

08/08/2023

📢 Call for submissions! The NSP is still looking for early career academics with innovative takes on who are interested in publishing their research paper. Visit https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/announcements -for-abstracts---issue-5 to submit your extended abstract by August 18th, 2023.⏰

03/08/2023

For NSP's Volume 2 Issue 2, Avani Ashtekar, Rodrigo Círigo-Jiménez and Maria Santi interview Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa, an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge. " Her research has three complementary axes: the lived experience of ‘race’ and racism, feminist theory, and the interconnections between beauty, emotions and racism with a particular interest in the visual as a methodology." To learn more, click here: https://buff.ly/3QzM1lF

31/07/2023

Archana Sinha's article, “दहेज प्रथा और स्त्री दासता”, or "Dowry Custom and Women's Slavery", was originally published in 2017 in the International Journal of Hindi Research. This article was translated by Sughandhika Giri for NSP's Volume 2 Issue 2, and explores how the practice of dowry in India is intertwined with the institution of marriage. To learn more, click here: https://buff.ly/3OBX3W5

22/07/2023

📢 Call for submissions! Looking for MSc and PhD students with innovative takes on who are interested in publishing their research paper. Visit https://buff.ly/3DrD31K to learn more.

20/06/2023

The second book review of our 3rd issue is Emma Somos's review of 'Very Important People: Beauty and Status in the Global Party Circuit’ by Ashley Mears. This exciting review is available here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/159

15/06/2023

Glyn Robbins's insightful review of ‘Working Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City’ by Robert M. Fogelson is available here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/159

12/06/2023

"The Spectacles of Experience" by Nicholas Lovrics aims to 'synthesize a comprehensive analysis of ISIS's professed doctrine as well as advanced theory on performative violence'. Read this thought-provoking piece available here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/120

Scholarship on the Islamic State's spectacles of violent brutality are too often misunderstood in popular discourse and scholarship alike; they concentrate on values inherent to Islam that dispose radical groups to performative violence or as attempts to incite military reactions from the West. This...

08/06/2023

In "Exploring the Challenges of Working with Migrants, Migrant Organisations and Migrant Communities", Sohail Jannesari 'aims to understand if and how Participatory Action Research might reduce the risk of researcher exploitation of migrants on individual, organisation and community levels.' Available here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/92

01/06/2023

Guillaume Guenat examines how objects come to be considered as games 🎮 by analyzing the process of ludicization (Genvo 2013) of the first SimCity (1989) videogame. Guenat's research illustrates the foundations of contemporary considerations of play, the erosion of the not-so-natural boundary between play and work and proposes a rethinking of play in shifting terms. Check out this fascinating article, titled 'SimCity and the Changing Meaning of Game' here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/121

30/05/2023

If interested in the role of nationality and citizenship in the intersectionality debate, along with notions of privilege in migration research, check out Richard Girling's article that comparatively analyses migrant entrepreneurs from the global North and South in the ‘middle-ground’ environment of Poland. This interesting article, titled 'Disadvantaged migrant entrepreneurs? The role of nationality and citizenship in realizing privilege' is available here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/30

25/05/2023

In our 3rd issue, Inés Fernández Moral explores the attitudes and experiences of Bahrainis on polygyny. The article focuses on polygyny's perceived prevalence, the reasons that may lead people to agree or disagree with this practice, and how marriage decisions and preferences have been/would be accommodated when confronted with potential polygynous challenges. This fascinating article, titled 'Polygyny in Bahrain: Attitudes, Perceptions, and Choices' is available here: http://ow.ly/IVuf50OwtxL.

22/05/2023

📢 Translators - the New Sociological Perspectives is looking for translations of existing sociological texts for our upcoming issue. We'd like to feature classics & recent works that have never been translated to English. Rolling call, details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11qT30vH49DiHi6vijFMMY4hX6TRah_XUtzoCilc8qLY/edit?usp=sharing

18/05/2023

In our 3rd issue, Rodrigo Agueda explores the emergence of a new urban form in Rio de Janeiro, and the consequences of such a form on urban life. This fascinating article, titled 'From Leblon to “Novo Leblon”' is available here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/122

15/05/2023

✍️ We've extended the deadline to join the 's editorial board! Apply here by the 4th June, 2023:

New Sociological Perspectives (NSP) is looking for new members to join the editorial board and help nurture and expand the Journal. Our aim is to enrich sociological research by featuring work that is diverse, bold, interdisciplinary, and methodologically creative. This is a vibrant intellectual pro...

02/05/2023

The deadline to join 's editorial board is fast approaching. Apply here by the 7th May, 2023:

New Sociological Perspectives (NSP) is looking for new members to join the editorial board and help nurture and expand the Journal. Our aim is to enrich sociological research by featuring work that is diverse, bold, interdisciplinary, and methodologically creative. This is a vibrant intellectual pro...

26/04/2023

🗣️ If you want to translate a classic or recent sociological piece that has never been published in English, email us at [email protected] with a proposal by May 15th. Help us broaden the access to relevant sociological works. More info on https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/announcements -for-translations---issue-4

12/04/2023

New Sociological Perspectives is still looking for LSE Sociology PhD/MPhil and MSc students or recent graduates (2022) to join our board. Deadline: 7th May, 2023. Click the following link to apply and learn more! http://ow.ly/WWxs50NHmEO

New Sociological Perspectives (NSP) is looking for new members to join the editorial board and help nurture and expand the Journal. Our aim is to enrich sociological research by featuring work that is diverse, bold, interdisciplinary, and methodologically creative. This is a vibrant intellectual pro...

06/03/2023

We all have the same 24 hours...right? ⌚

Check out Usman Ali’s postcolonial Bourdieusian exploration of the toxic and divisive politics of Molly-Mae Hague and the international fashion conglomerate, ‘Pretty’ Little Thing (PLT). By pivoting the article around Hague’s claim that ‘everyone has the same 24 hours’, Ali sets the stage for investigating Hague’s capital, privilege, and rise to fame, alongside PLT’s exploitation of migrant and ethnic garment workers.

Ali touches upon “racialised class-based dynamics at the heart of Britain’s fast fashion industry”, and demonstrates that while we may all have the same 24 hours, “our worlds couldn’t be any further apart”.

Anybody who knows me well knows that I don’t mince my words. When it came to the case of White British social media influencer Molly-Mae Hague’s controversial remark that we allegedly ‘all have the…

25/11/2022

Solidarity ✊. To learn more about the UCU’s historic strike in the UK, visit https://www.ucu.org.uk/rising.

23/11/2022

Are you curious to know how we look like? From today, we will be starting a new series where we introduce the people behind the NSP journal!

From Boise, ID, USA, Patrick Higgins pursued a MSc in Sociology studying workplaces & temporality based on his work in the service industry before and through COVID-19. He plays guitar & banjo, & is a creative writer!

13/11/2022

📢 Translators - NSP are looking for translations of existing sociological texts for our next issue. We want to feature both classics in the field and recent work which have never been translated to English.

Rolling call, details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11qT30vH49DiHi6vijFMMY4hX6TRah_XUtzoCilc8qLY/edit

11/11/2022

🚨UPDATE: Deadline for submissions extended until December 2. Visit http://nsp.lse.ac.uk/announcement/ to submit your extended abstract.

04/11/2022

In the New Sociological Perspectives’ inaugural blog post, Sandeepan Tripathy explores the relations of debt modalities and habitus in the hit show Squid Game, “Dissecting Squid Game sociologically emanates from the timely concern about the meaning of being human when faced with choices of debt and death.” Read more, and share your thoughts here: https://newsociologicalperspectives.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/squid-game-bordieu-and-precariousness/

10/10/2022

📢 Call for submissions! Looking for MSc and PhD students with innovative takes on who are interested in publishing their commentaries, pictures, videos or essays. Visit https://newsociologicalperspectives.wordpress.com for more information!

More info can also be found below below!⬇️

04/10/2022

Sofia Jaime’s translation of the intro of Gino Germai’s groundbreaking book, Estructura social de la Argentina, revives a 'pioneer in the Latin American sociology'. Read this fantastic translation on & in the 50's here: https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/articles/114/

30/09/2022

📢 Call for submissions! Looking for MSc and PhD students with innovative takes on who are interested in publishing their research paper. To submit your extended abstract, visit https://nsp.lse.ac.uk/announcement/.

Please submit by November 11, 2022, to ensure that your submission is considered. ⏰

More information can be found below. ⬇️

29/06/2022

Exciting news 🎉 Our event is today! Come along to hear five authors of the second issue and Dr Shereen Fernandez talk about contemporary social issues. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-sociological-perspectives-second-issue-launch-event-tickets-350320075777

28/06/2022

Join us tomorrow for a discussion between five authors published in our second issue and Dr Shereen Fernandez! Book your free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-sociological-perspectives-second-issue-launch-event-tickets-350320075777