Excited to co-convene with Prof. Ipek Demir a panel for IMSICOE 2026 at Girona, which seeks to historicize contemporary migration regimes. Please review the full call below and circulate widely.
📧 i.demir@leeds.ac.uk and a.zadhy@leeds.ac.uk
⏰ 22nd of September 2025 (23:59 BST)
Why is there so much business as usual among #sociologists during a #genocide?
@anilsghost.bsky.social reflects on #Gaza and how explosive weapons have left their marks on sociological ideas and the discipline’s “ambivalent solidarity with anticolonial struggles”.
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Moral Economies of the Polycrisis Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin). By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’? These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims. At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy.
What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises? To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract? How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination? How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy? What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises? And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly? These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars. We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support. Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025 The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢
"Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times"
Workshop, June 16-17
University of Hamburg
Deadline for abstracts: 07/04
Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social
linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...
Decolonizing Policy Advice: The Oxymoronic Nature of Danish Researchers Advising a Danish Ministry on a Danish Plan for Africa www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2177
Join us online at a roundtable, where members of The Southern Responses to Displacement (southernresponses.org) research team based in Turkiye, Amal Istanbouli and Sara Alhelali Saab will converse with Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Dr. Sana Murrani, and me. To register, visit: lnkd.in/dWqpAXQ3
Why have so many users abandoned X? Are platforms like Bluesky calmer and less polarised? 🦋
@drmaximilian.bsky.social from Leeds University Business School gave expert commentary on Channel 4 News last night.
Watch the full report by @andrewmisra.bsky.social ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxKf...
Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
In any case, I think this summer will be the summer of return, In sha' Allah!
No thanks to the knee-jerk reaction of many countries on the repatriation of Syrians, return is also something tinged with fear and anxiety. -_- It's not just contradictory border policies (in the case of Turkey) that are preventing return but also the sanctions that prevent the rebuilding.
I had the privilege of listening to Syrians in Turkey explore what the liberation of Syria meant to them. Return is frequently on their lips, but having spent more than a decade away from Syria, it is also something bitter-sweet, especially for those who came as children and are now adults...
Great to see this #CallforPapers on Gaza, genocide and sociology from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social go live - responding to our manifesto call to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures - with thanks to all those involved in making this happen thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
It is so beautiful, so wonderful, so pure to see the Syrians who we have been so lucky to call our neighbours & friends during their exile speak of return & being reunited ❤️❤️
Syrians across Europe are finally dreaming they will see their home again, a hope so many had lost through the years🙌
The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for the Sudanese too.
Amazing scenes out of Syria. For all that’s to come - and everyone knows it’s going to be rough, that HTS and other opposition are problematic, and that regional powers will do their worst - it’s glorious to see another of these monstrous dictators fall. The Arab uprisings never ended.
I want to be cautious but honestly...the joy of my Syrian friends is piercing my heart...may today bring Syrians closer to the freedom that they dreamt of. May the oppressed everywhere see their joy and be nourished by their hope...Ameen. ❤️🤍💚🖤
Any reference to the current Prime Minister of Israel must now follow the format "fugitive from justice Benjamin Netanyahu" sorry that's the AP style
The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau confirms Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant will be arrested if they step foot in Canada after the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants.
More than a decade after the coup, with the Sisi government facing a grinding debt crisis and following a logic of power consolidation at any cost, it finds itself at the mercy of Israel and its colonial hubris, unable to exert influence on one of its closest allies.
US Vetoes UN security council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the release of all hostages.
"As the conflict continues in Gaza and Lebanon, the United States vetoed the latest resolution on Gaza in the UN Security Council in New York which demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire as well as the release of all hostages and full humanitarian access for civilians. "
The Biden administration continues to be the sole government besides Netanyahu's currently actively preventing a ceasefire in Gaza. Ppl can be in denial all they want, this is a fact.
The US is ruled by moral monsters and Trump isn't even in office yet.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
The US worked hard to remove Chapter VII language from the latest UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire and the release of hostages, and then vetoed it anyway. 14 for, 1 against. Utterly depraved.
Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
Among the weapons to Israel the Senate will vote on today?
The guidance kits Israel used in its devastating attack on the al-Mawasi "safe zone" tent city that reportedly killed at least 90 people and injured another at least 300.
The US just vetoed *another* UN Security Council resolution. It demanded "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" & "immediate and unconditional release of all hostages."
14 voted in favor.
1—the US—opposed.
This is the 4th UNSC ceasefire resolution US has vetoed.
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this is a video of my face with my children,I was ashamed to show my face, but I have to prove that I'm real now, don't leave me, we are DYING,
This is not the time for spam ,
I have suffered enough in Gaza, save me..
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