Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15 (2020)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2020). Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15. Sociology, 561-581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520954318

We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charge... Read More about Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15.

The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation and Global Social Media. (2020)
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(2020). The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation and Global Social Media

On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification (2020)
Journal Article
Mookherjee. (2020). On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification. Social Theory and Practice, 46(4), https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20201029105

Amid now extensive debates about cosmopolitanism in political theory, this article explores the implications of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory for issues in international justice, not least the dire situation of poverty in the world. In contrast w... Read More about On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification.

Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy (2020)
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Bag, P., Saha, B., & Sikdar, S. (2020). Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy. Social Choice and Welfare, 56, 173–203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-020-01275-x

How does identity blind hiring, as opposed to sighted hiring, influence matching between high ability candidates and high value jobs? Job seekers might face constraints in signaling their abilities for lack of wealth and being denied education. Addin... Read More about Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy.

Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’ (2020)
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featherstone. (2020). Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’. Journal of Classical Sociology, 21(2), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X20915667

Given the recent non-human turn in sociology and the social sciences, the popularity of theories of entanglement, and contemporary concern with the concept of the anthropocene, it is easy to forget that classical sociology was always-already aware of... Read More about Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’.

The Chicago School goes east: Edward Shils and the dilemma of the Indian intellectuals, c.1956-67 (2020)
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Sharma, S. (2020). The Chicago School goes east: Edward Shils and the dilemma of the Indian intellectuals, c.1956-67. Modern Asian Studies, 2087-2111. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000465

The sociologist Edward Shils (1910-95) is a neglected commentator on modern India. Best known in a South Asian context for his involvement in the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Shils also produced an influential study of Indian intellectuals, publish... Read More about The Chicago School goes east: Edward Shils and the dilemma of the Indian intellectuals, c.1956-67.