Uncommon Sense podcast

Player FM - Internet Radio Done Right

Vor drei Jahren hinzugefügt

Inhalt bereitgestellt von The Sociological Review. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von The Sociological Review oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.

The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr

1
Phil Wang Pitches Psychological Thriller Starring WHO?! 24:35

vor 8 Tagen24:35

Später Spielen

Listen

Gefällt mir

Geliked

24:35

It’s the very first episode of The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr and our first guest is Phil Wang! And Phil’s subgenre is…This Place is Evil. We’re talking psychological torture, we’re talking gory death scenes, we’re talking Lorraine Kelly?! The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr is a brand new comedy podcast where each week a different celebrity guest pitches an idea for a film based on one of the SUPER niche sub-genres on Netflix. From ‘Steamy Crime Movies from the 1970s’ to ‘Australian Dysfunctional Family Comedies Starring A Strong Female Lead’, our celebrity guests will pitch their wacky plot, their dream cast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between. By the end of every episode, Jimmy Carr, Comedian by night / “Netflix Executive” by day, will decide whether the pitch is greenlit or condemned to development hell! Listen on all podcast platforms and watch on the Netflix Is A Joke YouTube Channel . The Big Pitch is a co-production by Netflix and BBC Studios Audio. Jimmy Carr is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer, touring his brand-new show JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY throughout the USA from May to November this year, as well as across the UK and Europe, before hitting Australia and New Zealand in early 2026. All info and tickets for the tour are available at JIMMYCARR.COM Production Coordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Production Manager: Mabel Finnegan-Wright Editor: Stuart Reid Producer: Pete Strauss Executive Producer: Richard Morris Executive Producers for Netflix: Kathryn Huyghue, Erica Brady, and David Markowitz Set Design: Helen Coyston Studios: Tower Bridge Studios Make Up: Samantha Coughlan Cameras: Daniel Spencer Sound: Charlie Emery Branding: Tim Lane Photography: James Hole…

Uncommon Sense

Serie-Home•Feed

Our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists.
Brought to you by The Sociological Review, Uncommon Sense is a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, featuring a different guest each month, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone – and that you definitely don’t have to be a sociologist to think like one!
Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense

37 Episoden

#Society #Sociological Review #Sociology #Culture #Debunked #Smart Thinking #Policy #Ideas #Academic #Critics #Intellectual

Uncommon Sense

updated vor 15 Tagen

Serie-Home•Feed

37 Episoden

#Society #Sociological Review #Sociology #Culture #Debunked #Smart Thinking #Policy #Ideas #Academic #Critics #Intellectual

Alle Folgen

Uncommon Sense

1
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism – Trailer 2:03

vor 15 Tagen2:03

2:03

Hi everyone! The next episode of Uncommon Sense is landing here soon, but for now, we want to tell you about our brand new podcast, Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism , a mini-series of audio essays on the work and lasting sociological significance of three important and inspirational figures in the story of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean and Len Garrison. Listen to our trailer to learn more! Be sure to FOLLOW the podcast on your preferred platform to catch all episodes: https://sideways-sociology.buzzsprout.com/2498143/follow Episodes will also be made available directly on our website: https://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/sideways-sociology-uk-anti-racism/ Out on May 30th! Thanks for listening. Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Fat, with Fady Shanouda 43:10

vor 7 weeks43:10

43:10

How do we typically see fat, and how can thinking differently about it have emancipatory outcomes? Fady Shanouda of Carleton University’s Feminist Institute of Social Transformation introduces Fat Studies and their inextricable link to activism. Alert to the connection between living and other things, Fady unpacks his feminist new materialist approach, and explains what it means to say “I’m not fat in my house”, describing how our surroundings can liberate us or show bias. He also considers the harm caused by misconceptions of fat as simply “surplus”, “inanimate” or even “dead” material. How does such valuing get mapped onto whole bodies and lives? And what happens if, instead, we recognise fat as essential, pushing back against the idea that having a lower amount of body fat means somehow a more valuable life? Plus: how has fat come to be seen as a matter for psychiatry? And what are the manifestations of the “fat tax” in a world where things are made with certain bodies in mind and costs imposed on others? Featuring discussion on autoethnography in North America. Plus: celebration of TV drama “Shrill” and the gripping reality TV survival series “Alone”. Guest: Fady Shanouda; Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong; Executive Producer: Alice Bloch; Sound Engineer: David Crackles; Music: Joe Gardner; Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Fady Shanouda Fat Animacy (forthcoming book chapter) Fat and Mad Bodies: Under, Out of, and Beyond Control (chapter in Fat Studies in Canada ) Disability Saves the World (podcast) From the Sociological Review Foundation Sugar Rush by Karen Throsby – Lucy Aphramor Fat Activist Podcasts Just my size? Our bodies, our waistbands, our triggered selves – Nina Sökefeld Further resources “Fat Studies” – an Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society “Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect” – Mel Y. Chen “The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain” – Margaret Price “Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction” – Tony E. Adams The “Pool” episode of the TV series “Shrill” The reality TV survival show “Alone” More on the “Obesity Paradox” “The impact of obesity on the short-term and long-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention: the obesity paradox?” – Luis Gruberg, et al. “‘Obesity paradox’ misunderstands the biology of optimal weight throughout the life cycle” – J. B. Dixon, et al. Read more about the work of Eli Clare on bodyminds and Hunter Ashleigh Shackleford . Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Scars, with Ellen T. Meiser 46:54

vor 11 weeks46:54

46:54

From TV’s “The Bear” to the simmering restaurant thriller “Boiling Point” we seem drawn to angry-but-vulnerable chefs in pop culture. But how do such stereotypes shape who works in kitchens and how they treat their colleagues? Is “kitchen culture”, with its macho rough and tumble norms, always so different from the work culture so many of us face – including in academia? Sociologist Ellen T. Meiser joins us from Hawaii to discuss this and more, reflecting on her new book Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen . She tells us about her lifelong fascination with kitchens – from teenage shift work in Anchorage, Alaska, to studying baking and pastry at the Culinary Institute of America and entering the field of Food Studies. We ask: how do scars serve as a kind of currency in commercial kitchens amid values of stoicism, perseverance and pain? How does the transience of worker populations make kitchens sites of risk and low accountability? And how does “scarring” take place beyond the kitchen, in a traumatogenic society where individuals, but also our planet, face significant harm? With celebration of the late chef and author Anthony Bourdain. Guest: Ellen T. Meiser; Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong; Executive Producer: Alice Bloch; Sound Engineer: David Crackles; Music: Joe Gardner; Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Ellen T. Meiser Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen “It Was, Ugh, It Was So Gnarly. And I Kept Going”: The Cultural Significance of Scars in the Workplace The Social Breakdown (podcast co-hosted with Penn Pantumsinchai and Omar Bird) – including the episode Culture and Systems: An Intro to Food Studies From the Sociological Review Foundation Food and Work – The Sociological Review Magazine issues Taste , Performance , Success , Burnout , Toxic – Uncommon Sense episodes Further resources “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Food and Culture: A Reader” – ed. Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, Alice Julier “Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood Behind the Counter” – Angela Hui “Scar Cultures: Media, Spectacle, Suffering” – Pramod Nayar “‘Yes Chef’: life at the vanguard of culinary excellence” – Robin Burrow, Chef John Smith, Christalla Yakinthou “The Forms of Capital” – Pierre Bourdieu “Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body” – Phillip Vannini “‘I see my section scar like a battle scar’: The ongoing embodied subjectivity of maternity” – Sally Johnson More links to resources available at thesociologicalreview.org Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Joy, with Akwugo Emejulu 58:01

vor 19 weeks58:01

58:01

What comes to mind when you think about joy ? And can there be joy in protest and refusal? Someone who’s been asking and trying to answer questions about this is Akwugo Emejulu. She’s been investigating the relationship between Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures, asking how Black feminists are remixing political media, meanings and messages to co-create manifestos for change. Akwugo has also been mapping the grassroots organising and activism of women of colour for more than 15 years, and in this episode shares her insights about the role of joy and other emotions in understanding society and social change. Plus: Akwugo introduces us to the work of bell hooks, including her take on Beyoncé’s album “Lemonade”, and gives her pop culture recommendation for some Japanese anime, much to Alexis’ delight! Guest: Akwugo Emejulu Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Guest Producer: Chris Garrington Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources Rosie, Alexis and Akwugo recommended The works of psychologist Rollo May and poet Toi Derricotte The anime TV series Orb: On the Movements of the Earth and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood By Akwugo Emejulu Fugitive Feminism To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (co-edited with Francesca Sobande) Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (co-authored with Leah Bassel) The Black Feminism Remix Lab: on Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures (co-authored with Francesca Sobande) Refusing politics as usual: mapping women of colour’s radical praxis in London and Amsterdam (co-authored with Inez van der Scheer) The politics of exhaustion (co-authored with Leah Bassel) From The Sociological Review The lonely activist: On being haunted – Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South–South collaboration – Srila Roy Further resources “Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center” – bell hooks “Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions” – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva “The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations” – Adia Harvey Wingfield “Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure” – Arlie Russell Hochschild Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Voice, with Claire Alexander, Dan McCulloch and Belinda Scarlett 1:02:42

vor 24 weeks1:02:42

1:02:42

With so many platforms available to share information, there are more means than ever to make a noise. But in the spirit of free speech and academic freedom, those speaking and actually being heard remain grossly unequal. What are the links between voice and power and how can we amplify those voices that we can’t hear? In this special episode recorded at The Sociological Review Undisciplining II conference, Michaela Benson is joined by Claire Alexander (Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester), Dan McCulloch (Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at The Open University) and Belinda Scarlett (Library Manager at the Working Class Movement Library) to talk about empowerment, representation and impact, under a common theme: VOICE Guests: Claire Alexander, Dan McCulloch, Belinda Scarlett Host: Michaela Benson Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Guest Producer: Emma Houlton Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Claire Alexander Our Migration Story The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities Stuart Hall and ‘Race’ By Dan McCulloch Critical Reflections on Participatory Visual Methods and Voice Why Deaf Prisoners Have Been in a State of Lockdown Since Well Before COVID-19 Homelessness and Mortality: an Extraordinary or Unextraordinary Phenomenon? (co-authored with Vickie Cooper) By Belinda Scarlett Working Class Movement Library Big Flame Project From The Sociological Review Accent and the Manifestation of Spatialised Class Structure – Michael Donnelly, Sol Gamsu, Alex Baratta Youth Voices in Post-English Riots Tottenham: The Role of Reflexivity in Negotiating Negative Representations – Julius Elster Further resources “Sidewalk” – Mitchell Duneier Black British Voices – report of project led by Kenny Monrose Valuing Voices in the Digital Age – Sharath Srinivasan “Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism” – Nick Couldry At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back ; also available for listening Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Life Admin, with Oriana Bernasconi 51:09

vor 27 weeks51:09

51:09

Life admin often refers to the overwhelming and mundane paperwork that surrounds contemporary living. However, Oriana Bernasconi, a sociology professor at the Alberto Hurtado University in Chile, joins Uncommon Sense to talk about a more serious side of the term – that of paperwork documenting human rights abuse – as well as a living, breathing archive and the analogue spreadsheet. Author of “Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America: Documenting Atrocity”, Oriana talks about her substantial research in human rights archives documenting the atrocities that took place during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. She also talks us through “technologies of memory” and how archives have allowed the living to connect with the dead. Plus: Oriana introduces us to the works of Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida around performativity and gives her pop culture recommendation for the 16-part TV series “Una historia necesaria”. Guest: Oriana Bernasconi Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Guest Producer: Emma Houlton Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources Rosie, Alexis and Oriana recommended WINHANGANHA – film by Jazz Money Inside/Out: A Prison Memoir – theatre production by Patrick Keating Una Historia Necesaria – TV series by Hernán Caffiero By Oriana Bernasconi Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America: Documenting Atrocity Political Technologies of Memory: Uses and Appropriations of Artefacts that Register and Denounce State Violence (co-authored with Elizabeth Lira and Marcela Ruiz) Archives of Violence: Case studies from South America (co-authored with Vikki Bell, Jaime Hernández-García and Cecilia Sosa) From The Sociological Review The aesthetics of memory: Ruins, visibility and witnessing – Margarita Palacios The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures – Josh Bowsher Further resources the publications of the Tecnologías Políticas de la Memoria project “Documenting Dictatorship: Writing and Resistance in Chile's Vicaría de la Solidaridad” – Vikki Bell “Documentality: Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces” – Maurizio Ferraris “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” – Judith Butler Read more about the concept of Speeach Acts , as well as the work of Michel Foucault , Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida . Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Toxic, with Alice Mah 1:02:56

vor 31 weeks1:02:56

1:02:56

What comes to mind when we think about toxicity in everyday life? It could be toxic relationships or masculinity – through to consumption, waste, governance and environmental harm. Alice Mah joins Uncommon Sense to discuss toxic expertise, waste colonialism and more. The author of “Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation” and “Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It”, Alice reflects on what the petrochemical industry has to do with sociology. From the impact on marginalised communities often having no choice but to live in a toxic environment through to the concept of “waste colonialism”. She also introduces us to the work of Dr Max Liboiron and their work CLEAR (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research) – an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations. Alice explains how the work of CLEAR has impacted her and made her think a little differently when approaching her own work. Guest: Alice Mah Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Guest Producer: Emma Houlton Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Alice Mah Petrochemical Planet Plastic Unlimited Toxic Expertise From the Sociological Review Foundation Deep Time, Intergenerational Knowledge, and Socio-Ecological Futures – The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2024 by Alice Mah Into the abyss: Monsters, minerals and deep-sea mining in Norway’s blue economy – Jennifer E. Telesca Climate Justice – magazine issue Further resources “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” – Dipesh Chakrabarty “Pollution Is Colonialism” – Max Liboiron “Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution” – Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner “The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World” – Linsey McGoey Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) “The Blue Planet” – documentary TV series presented by David Attenborough “Dark Waters” – film directed by Todd Haynes – based on Nathaniel Rich’s New York Times article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare” Production Note: This episode was recorded in July 2024. Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Margins, with Rhoda Reddock 46:00

vor 36 weeks46:00

46:00

What gets centred and what gets framed as marginal? Who decides? And what are the consequences? UN expert, feminist scholar and social historian Rhoda Reddock – Professor Emerita at The University of the West Indies – joins us from Trinidad and Tobago to discuss the theme of margins , reflecting on the importance of radical Caribbean thought, the contested meaning of the “global south” and the evolution and significance of Caribbean feminism from the 70s to today. As a member of the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Rhoda shares her reflections of moving between Switzerland and Trinidad and Tobago for her work. She also gives advice to scholars striving to make an impact – and to those questioning the necessity of moving to the “global north”. Why, Rhoda asks, does scholarship from the “global south” too often get perceived as regionally specific, while the “north” remains regarded as the centre of sociological thought? And how, Rosie and Alexis ask, has the Caribbean typically been regarded – or indeed, dismissed – by the discipline? Plus: Rhoda also shines a spotlight on Trinidadian-American scholar Oliver C. Cox, author of “Caste, Class and Race”, whose work was a precursor to Wallerstein’s “World Systems Theory” and also to women’s studies today. A fascinating discussion, also featuring celebration of thinkers including CLR James and Walter Rodney, author of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”. Guest: Rhoda Reddock Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Rhoda Reddock Radical Caribbean Social Thought Women and Slavery in the Caribbean “Conceptualizing ‘Difference’ in Caribbean Feminist Theory” in New Caribbean Thought Rhoda’s online profile From the Sociological Review Foundation Europeans, with Manuela Boatcă – Uncommon Sense podcast episode Global Sociology – online magazine essay collection Decolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On: The Sociological Review Annual Lecture – Linda Tuhiwai Smith Further resources The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) “North-South: A Programme for Survival” – Willy Brandt “Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science” – Raewyn Connell “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” – Walter Rodney “Caste, Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics” – Oliver C. Cox Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Community, with Kirsteen Paton 45:43

vor 46 weeks45:43

45:43

What’s meant – and who’s excluded – when community is invoked? Does membership take more than presence alone? How can seeing local crises through a global lens enrich our understanding? Kirsteen Paton joins Uncommon Sense to discuss community, class, resistance, solidarity and more – including her experience of community in the UK cities of Liverpool and Glasgow. As the author of “Class and Everyday Life”, Kirsteen gives hosts Alexis and Rosie a fascinating potted history of the study of “community” in sociology – moving from the early work of Emile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies, concerned with industrial capitalism, to recent studies of gentrification and the rise of identities beyond those tied to concrete ideas of “place”. They ask: how is sociology developing its thinking about online communities? And if there’s a tendency to idealise and romanticise “community” as typically positive, how should we think about and conceptualise those on the far right? Also: does talking about place-based communities risk missing the fact that communities are also connected across borders and histories, including colonialism? Kirsteen reflects – via Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Doreen Massey – on how what appears to be “local” (whether crises like the housing one or cases of resistance) is often inextricably linked to the global. Plus: a celebration of Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall and more. Guest: Kirsteen Paton Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Kirsteen Paton Class and Everyday Life Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective Probing the symptomatic silences of middle‐class settlement: A case study of gentrification processes in Glasgow From the Sociological Review Foundation Solidarity – Uncommon Sense podcast episode Doing Anti-Racism – The Stigma Conversations podcast episode World City – Spatial Delight podcast episode Further reading “Coal is Our Life” – N. Dennis, F. Henriques, C. Slaughter “Family and Kinship in East London” – M. Young, P. Willmott “St Ann's” – K. Coates, R. Silburn “Neither ‘Deepest, Darkest Peckham’ nor ‘Run-of-the-Mill’ East Dulwich: The Middle Classes and their ‘Others’ in an Inner-London Neighbourhood” – E. Jackson, M. Benson “‘I Probably Would Never Move, but Ideally Like I’d Love to Move This Week’: Class and Residential Experience, Beyond Elective Belonging” – B. Jeffery “Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism” – A. Sivanandan “A Global Sense of Place” – D. Massey “New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s” – eds. S. Hall, M. Jacques “All That Melts into Air is Solid: The Hokum of New Times” – A. Sivanandan Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Coffee Culture, with Grazia Ting Deng 44:50

vor 50 weeks44:50

44:50

Think you know “coffee culture”? Anthropologist Grazia Ting Deng discusses her research into the “paradox of Chinese Espresso” – or why and how coffee bars in Italy, seen as such distinctively “Italian” spaces, became increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since 2008. Grazia tells Rosie and guest host Amit Singh – who highlights the overlap with his own co-authored research into the UK’s desi pubs – about her ethnographic study and how she even trained as a barista to better grasp her subject. Painting a vivid picture of how management by Chinese baristas grew due to economic, social and cultural factors in Bologna, Italy, she describes how and why these baristas have typically preserved rather than altered the culture in place. The coffee bar, she shows, is an everyday site of friction and adaptation where diverse groups come together and interact to construct a convivial space. Crucially, Grazia argues, conviviality is not some lofty goal – as is often thought to be the case – rather, it’s a lived reality, characterised by contingency and compromise. Guest: Grazia Ting Deng Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Amit Singh Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Grazia Ting Deng Chinese Espresso Hopefully a Good Life I Cinesi among Others: The Contested Racial Perceptions among Chinese Migrants in Italy Discussed by Rosie, Amit and Grazia “Heaven’s Kitchen” – Courtney Bender “In Search of Respect” – Philippe Bourgois “Challenging Codes” – Alberto Melucci “New Ethnicities and Urban Culture” – Les Back “Coffee and Cigarettes” – film, dir. Jim Jarmusch “Shun Li and the Poet” – film, dir. Andrea Segre From The Sociological Review Social spaces and non-places: The community role of the traditional British pub – Reid Allen Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen – Amani Hassani Valuing the bowling alley: Contestations over the preservation of spaces of everyday urban multiculture in London – Emma Jackson Further reading “The Great Good Place” – Ray Oldenburg A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation – Amit Singh, Sivamohan Valluvan, James Kneale “After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?” – Paul Gilroy “Stories from a migrant city” – Ben Rogaly “Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection” – Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing “The Invention of Tradition” – eds. Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” – Clifford Geertz Read more about the work of Mary Louise Pratt . Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Making, with Kat Jungnickel 40:12

vor 1 year40:12

40:12

What does it mean to make things? Why are some people valorised as “makers”, while others are rendered invisible? And what duty do sociologists have as makers of knowledge and narratives? The “sewing cycling sociologist” Kat Jungnickel joins Uncommon Sense to discuss all this and more; including her years of research celebrating historic female cyclists as radical inventors, makers and hackers, responding to barriers to their freedom of movement and raising crucial questions about power and space. Rosie (no stranger to DIY) and Alexis (a lifelong fan of taking things apart) ask Kat: what exactly is “Science and Technology Studies” (STS) and what’s the idea of the “black box” all about? How are the factory workers who make “our” clothes regarded in academia and beyond? Aren’t we all “makers” now, feeding our “smart” devices? And what can we learn from “Do It Together” (DIT) communities, like those Kat studied for her doctoral work in Australia, where she met people building their own wi-fi networks? Are they performing radical resistance to capitalism, or simply dealing with its downsides? Plus: Kat celebrates the work of thinkers who inspire her, including Saidiya Hartman. Hartman’s “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments”, Kat suggests, invites us to interrogate and remake established narratives, and to make space for those previously dismissed and denied a voice. Also discussed: John Urry, John Law, Angela McRobbie, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour and more. Production Note: This episode was recorded before Kat Jungnickel's home institution of Goldsmiths, University of London announced organisational restructuring, which includes plans to make more than 50% of academic staff in the Department of Sociology redundant. Guest: Kat Jungnickel Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources By Kat Jungnickel Bikes and Bloomers and the project’s open-source sewing patterns Politics of Patents Making Things to make Sense of Things Making WiFi Kat’s website From The Sociological Review Words failed us: Repairing sociology’s haunted past means finding new language to write about the social world – Gala Rexer “The Promises of Practice” – Christopher Gad, Casper Bruun Jensen “Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care” – Siân M. Beynon-Jones, et al. Further reading “Science in Action” – Bruno Latour “Staying with the Trouble” – Donna Haraway “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” – Saidiya Hartman “A Social History of American Technology” (2nd edition) – Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Matthew H. Hersch Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Burnout, with Hannah Proctor 48:57

vor 1 year48:57

48:57

Burnout has become a byword for workplace exhaustion, but does it have a deeper history? Hannah Proctor joins us to explain how the notion emerged in the USA’s 1960s countercultural free clinics movement, at first relating to the emotional defeat of idealistic activists but came to be seen as simply the result of working too hard. It’s a story that tracks the trajectory of capitalism itself – as Hannah shows referencing thinkers from Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello to filmmaker Adam Curtis. Rosie and Alexis ask Hannah: are there gendered, classed and racialised aspects to how burnout gets discussed? How do structural conditions prevent us from caring for caregivers? And how do the statements of those in power undermine or validate the causes we care about, and thus compound our feelings of defeat and exhaustion? Hannah explains what psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's work teaches us about the challenges and contradictions of striving to make people “well” in a sick society. Plus, she tells us why the Black Panther phrase “survival pending revolution” is a crucial reminder that while small-scale acts of care remain essential, only wholesale reform can ensure a better, less burnout, world for all. Guest: Hannah Proctor Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources Recommended by Hannah “Hyper” – A. Ismaïl From The Sociological Review The Stigma Conversations: Apocalypse and Change – I. Tyler, A. Knox Uncommon Sense: Care – B. Skeggs, R. Hancock, A. H. Truong Healing, knowing, enduring: Care and politics in damaged worlds – M. Tironi, I. Rodríguez-Giralt By Hannah Proctor Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat “Sadistic, grinning rifle-women” in Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020 university profile and website Further reading “Burn-out: The High Cost of High Achievement” – H. J. Freudenberger, G. Richelson “Staff Burn‐Out” – H. J. Freudenberger “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation” – A. H. Petersen “Edifice Complex” – B. Ansfield “The making of burnout” – M. J. Hoffarth “Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties” – M. Davis, J. Wiener “The New Spirit of Capitalism” – L. Boltanski, E. Chiapello “The Care Manifesto” – The Care Collective “Revolutionary Suicide” – H. P. Newton “The Case of Blackness” – F. Moten “The Wretched of the Earth” – F. Fanon “Disalienation” – C. Robcis Read about Isabelle Le Pain’s work and watch Adam Curtis's films . Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Privilege, with Shamus Khan 48:20

vor 1 year48:20

48:20

What does privilege look like today? How do the advantaged perform “ease”? And why do some of us feel at home in elite spaces, while others feel awkward? Princeton sociologist Shamus Khan joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on elites, entitlement and more. Reminding us that “poor people are not why there’s inequality; rich people are why there’s inequality”, he highlights the importance of studying elites for studying inequality, as the gap between the two grows. Being the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St Paul’s School (2011), Shamus tells Rosie and Alexis about how the way elites justify and see their position has shifted – and how a disability studies perspective helps us to cast a critical eye on the “ease” with which the few seem to nimbly navigate elite institutions. What seems like some of us “have it” and others “just don’t” is, suggests Shamus, socially produced – and what appears to be a “flat” and open world, ripe for the bold to seize, is really far more complex. Plus: why might people who share the same knowledge be valued differently when that knowledge is held in different – racialised, minoritised – bodies? Also: why TV shows and movies about elites don’t stop at Saltburn , Succession and The Kardashians ? Guest: Shamus Khan Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense Episode Resources From The Sociological Review Spatial Delight: Space Invaders – N. Puwar, A. Lisiak Uncommon Sense: Taste – I. Karademir Hazir, R. Hancock, A. H. Truong ‘Talent-spotting’ or ‘social magic’? Inequality, cultural sorting and constructions of the ideal graduate in elite professions – N. Ingram, K. Allen By Shamus Khan Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School Saying Meritocracy and Doing Privilege (co-authored with Colin Jerolmack) How Cultural Capital Emerged in Gilded Age America (co-authored with Fabien Accominotti, Adam Storer) Further reading “Flexible Citizenship” – A. Ong “Space Invaders” – N. Puwar “Learning to Labour” – P. Willis “Understanding audience segmentation” – R. Peterson “Reality Television and Class” – B. Skeggs, H. Wood “‘Oh goodness, I am watching reality TV’: How methods make class in audience research” – B. Skeggs, N. Thumim, H. Wood “Capital in the 21st Century” – T. Piketty Read more about Shey O’Brien , Fabien Acconomoti , Pierre Bourdieu and Frantz Fanon . Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Rules, with Swethaa Ballakrishnen 45:20

vor 1 year45:20

45:20

What are rules for? What's at stake if we assume that they're neutral? And if we want rules to be progressive, does it matter who makes them? Socio-legal scholar Swethaa Ballakrishnen joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, highlighting the value of studying law not just in theory but in action, and drawing on a career spanning law and academia in India and the USA. As the author of "Accidental Feminism", which explores unintended parity in the Indian legal profession, Swethaa talks to Rosie and Alexis about intention and whether it is always needed for positive outcomes. We also ask: in a society characterised as “post-truth”, does anyone even care about rules anymore? Plus, Swethaa dissects the trope of “neutrality” – firmly embedded in legal discourse, from the idea of “blind justice” to the notion of equality before the law. There are dangers, they explain, to assuming that law is neutral, particularly given that it is often those in power who get to make and extend the rules – something critical race scholars have long been aware of. Swethaa also fills us in on their recent interest in the TV show "Ted Lasso" and considers pop culture that speaks to our theme, including the series "Made in Heaven" and "Extraordinary Attorney Woo", plus a short film by Arun Falara. Guest : Swethaa Ballakrishnen Hosts : Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer : Alice Bloch Sound Engineer : David Crackles Music : Joe Gardner Artwork : Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review . Episode Resources From The Sociological Review Socio-legal Implications for Digital Environmental Activism – Audrey Verma et al. The Moral Rhetoric of a Civilized Society – Susanna Menis Depoliticisation, hybridisation and dual processes of stigmatisation – Shaoying Zhang By Swethaa Ballakrishnen Accidental Feminism Law School as Straight Space Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy (co-authored with Kalpana Kannabiran) “At Odds with Everything Around Me” in Out of Place (forthcoming) “Of Queerness, Rights, and Utopic Possibilities” (interview) – part of Queering the (Court)Room Further reading, viewing and listening “Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice” – Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth (eds) “Criminal Behavior as an Expression of Identity and a Form of Resistance” – Kathryne Young “The Language of Law School” – Elizabeth Mertz TV series: “Extraordinary Attorney Woo”, “Ted Lasso”, “Made in Heaven” “Sunday” (short film)– Arun Fulara Uncommon Sense: Performance, with Kareem Khubchandani Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Uncommon Sense

1
Spirituality, with Andrew Singleton 40:13

vor 1 year40:13

40:13

What exactly is spirituality ? How does it relate to religion? Are both misunderstood? And what stands beyond and behind the idea that it has all simply been commodified to be about wellness, big business and celebrity? Andrew Singleton joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, including his experience researching young people’s spiritual practices in Australia, and time spent in Papua New Guinea. Andrew describes how what has been called the “spiritual turn” emerged through the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and led to today’s “spiritual marketplace”. We ask whether the young people of today’s Generation Z are more open-minded than their elders – and whether, across the Global North and Global South, people are meeting a need for betterment in the “here and now” through spirituality, but also religion. Plus: what did Marx really mean when he described religion as the “opium of the people” – and how has that quote taken on a (rather cynical) life of its own? Also, from reactions to the bestselling Eat, Pray, Love to the historical condemnation of female fortune tellers, why do our definitions and dismissals of spirituality seem to be so deeply gendered? Guest: Andrew Singleton Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong Executive Producer: Alice Bloch Sound Engineer: David Crackles Music: Joe Gardner Artwork: Erin Aniker Find more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review . Episode Resources From The Sociological Review The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict – Galen Watts, Dick Houtman The “Belief” issue of The Sociological Review Magazine (May 2022) Capitalising on faith? An intergenerational study of social and religious capital among Baby Boomers and Millennials in Britain – Stuart Fox, et al. By Andrew Singleton Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity (co-authored with M.L. Rasmussen, A. Halafoff, G. Bouma) Religion, Culture and Society: A Global Approach The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People’s Spirituality in a Changing Australia (co-authored with M. Mason, R. Webber) Further reading and listening “Selling Yoga” and “Peace Love Yoga” – Andrea Jain “Selling Spirituality” – Jeremy Carrette, Richard King “Selling (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 in Australia” – Anna Halafoff, et al. “Women's Work: The Professionalisation and Policing of Fortune-Telling in Australia” – Alana Piper “Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World” – Alexandra Roginski “The Dream” podcast – Jane Marie Read more on the life and work of Gary Bauma , as well as about Karl Marx and Michel Foucault . Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense…

Willkommen auf Player FM!

Player FM scannt gerade das Web nach Podcasts mit hoher Qualität, die du genießen kannst. Es ist die beste Podcast-App und funktioniert auf Android, iPhone und im Web. Melde dich an, um Abos geräteübergreifend zu synchronisieren.