Article in Social Science Matters
Article in Social Science Matters, 2, September 2009 http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/why-social-science-matters-issue-2/5576775
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 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 […]
Diverse communities and the question of cohesion
Ages ago I was asked to write a chapter on diversity for a book on the Yorkshire and Humberside region put together by colleagues at Leeds Metropolitan University. I got tremendous help from Professor John Stillwell (Geography, Leeds University) who produced statistical maps for me at the drop of a hat. The chapter contains lots […]