Links to recent talks. by Andrew Smith
In this article the authors ask what it would mean to think sociologically about the window as a ... more In this article the authors ask what it would mean to think sociologically about the window as a specific material and symbolic object. Drawing on qualitative analysis of a series of comparative interviews with residents in three different streets in a diverse local area of Glasgow, they explore what the use and experience of windows tells us about their respondents' very different relationships to the places where they live. On the one hand, the window, as a material feature of the home, helps us grasp the lived reality of class inequality and how such inequality shapes people's day-today experience. On the other hand, windows are symbolically charged objects, existing at the border of the domestic and public world. For this reason, they feature in important ways in local debates over the appearance, ownership and conservation of the built environment. The article explores these struggles, and shows what they reveal about the construction of belonging in the neighbourhood, a process which is both classed and racialised at one and the same time.
Papers by Andrew Smith
An extended review essay on the following, in the journal 'Sociology':
Gurminder K Bhambra: Con... more An extended review essay on the following, in the journal 'Sociology':
Gurminder K Bhambra: Connected Sociologies
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson: Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism
Wulf D Hund and Alana Lentin (eds): Racism and Sociology
While ‘ethnicity and everyday life’ is a familiar collocation, sociologists concerned with racism... more While ‘ethnicity and everyday life’ is a familiar collocation, sociologists concerned with racism and ethnicity have not engaged very much with the extensive body of social theory that takes the ‘everyday’ as its central problematic. In this essay, I consider some of the ways in which the sociology of the everyday might be of use to those concerned with investigating ethnicity and racism. For its part, however, the sociology of the everyday has tended to be remarkably blind to the role played by racism and racialization in the modern world. It is thus no less crucial to consider how the experiences of racialized groups might help us rethink influential accounts of the everyday. To this end, I provide a discussion of pioneering texts by C. L. R. James and W. E. B. du Bois, both of whom were driven by their reflections on racism and resistance to recognize the everyday not as an unremarked context, but as, precisely, a problematic one.
Blog Posts by Andrew Smith
This is a short blog post that summarizes some of the arguments made in my new book 'Racism and E... more This is a short blog post that summarizes some of the arguments made in my new book 'Racism and Everyday Life', which was published recently by Palgrave in the UK.
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Links to recent talks. by Andrew Smith
Papers by Andrew Smith
Gurminder K Bhambra: Connected Sociologies
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson: Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism
Wulf D Hund and Alana Lentin (eds): Racism and Sociology
Blog Posts by Andrew Smith
Gurminder K Bhambra: Connected Sociologies
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson: Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism
Wulf D Hund and Alana Lentin (eds): Racism and Sociology