Listen to the podcast from The BJS Public Lecture

Loïc Wacquant spoke at the recent BJS Public Lecture on Tuesday 6th October at the LSE. Loïc Wacquant draws on classical theory, social history, and a comparative analysis of the penalization of urban poverty in advanced societies at the century’s turn to argue that we need to bring the penal state back to the centre of the sociology of social inequality, public policy and citizenship.

Please click on the link below to listen to the podcast recorded at the LSE on 6th October.

Winner of the BJS Prize Announced

The BJS editors are pleased to announce that the winning article is:

Double-edged swords? Collective identity and solidarity in the environment movement
by Clare Saunders (published in Volume 59, Issue 2)

Listen to Clare Saunders talk about what motivated her to write the article. She summarises the main arguments from the paper and what it means to the study of social movement.