Community, Social Capital and Identification in the Multi-ethnic Inner City
‘Community, Social Capital and Identification in the Multi-ethnic Inner City : Reflections on the violent urban protest in the north of the UK in 2001.’ Paper delivered to the ‘Communities’ Conference, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 18-20 September 2003 Download as word .doc file
Cracking the Ivory Tower: proposing ‘an interpretive public sociology’
Chapter contributed to: New Social Connections: Sociology’s Subjects and Objects Judith Burnett, Syd Jeffers, Graham Thomas (editors) Palgrave (2009) Download as word .doc file
Critical Multiculturalism’s response to diverse Islamic thought and practice
My friend Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani invited me to talk to his students at the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham last October, so I wrote this paper and then forgot to post it. It develops the position I’ve advanced elsewhere, that I call ‘critical multiculturalism’ as a way of thinking about, and responding to, the various types […]
Critical Public Scholarship: on emotion and ‘race’
Before I decided to stop writing as an academic I agreed with my friends Karim Murji and Gargi Bhattacharyya to try and write something about political engagement in the sociology of ‘race’ for a special edition of Ethnic and Racial Studies. I wanted to say something about the emotional work that goes on when we enter […]