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Kevin McSorley

@kevmcs31

Senior Lecturer in Sociology @ OU. social theory, war, violence, bodies, senses, air

 Brighton, UK
Joined July 2010
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📽️ Wrongs Not Righted: How Might We Think About Repair? 👉Watch Professor Catherine Hall’s powerful Open Sociology & GCSJ talk on Britain’s entanglement with Jamaica, the legacies of slavery, and what repair might look like. 🔗youtu.be/LsIYjFizeWU?si=F0IK… #Colonialism #Jamaica
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On holiday 4th July?🌞gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
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@NaomiAKlein2 Dec 2023
Some people only have time for long reads on the weekend so I'm sharing what may be the most important article of this blood-soaked onslaught: "'A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza" 972mag.com/mass-assassinatio…
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Did you know that Critical Military Studies journal turns 10 in 2025? @DrHarrietGray, Paul Higate, and Ross McGarry are putting together a special issue 'Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review'. CfP: mailchi.mp/3bae98f0cf80/crit…
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Join contributing authors, alongside guest editors @hannah_r_west, Sarah Bulmer, @DrSophyAntrobus, and @NickCaddick1, for an online discussion of their recent special issue Voices of the Veteran (tandfonline.com/toc/rcms20/9…) on 11 Sept 2023, 12.30-1400 UK time!
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Prof @garyyounge is coming to #MiltonKeynes discussing #BlackLivesMatter as Movement or Moment? Symbol or Substance? Join the important discussion ❗️21 June 1-2pm Limited seats at The Open University 👉eventbrite.com/e/64619176596… @Usherwood @ourmiltonkeynes @IFMKfest @mk_citizen
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Sarah Maltby@warandmedia28 Mar 2023
How have images of the face been used on screen to document the phenomenon of war? CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium. 6th July, University of Leeds. Deadline CFP: 2 May 2023 warandmedia.org/cfp-the-war-…
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@dradanielsson and I are co-chairing the section, please find this year’s CfP here
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“You feel you are trapped in huge, big, powerful ocean waves” Olga walks us through what Russia’s war on #Ukraine has been like for her, as the coordinator of a shelter that she created for internally displaced women and children cov19chronicles.com/olgas-ch…
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My talk 'To Smell is to Kill: Sensate Regimes of War and Martial Power' now online here: youtube.com/watch?v=udQn3JA0…
To smell is to kill: sensate regimes of war and martial power

To smell is to kill: sensate regimes of war and martial power

Speaker: Dr Kevin McSorley, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The Ope...

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UCU@ucu27 Oct 2022
🚨BREAKING: USS NEWS!🚨 Give us back our pensions - now! #ucuRISING
UCU graphic in hot pink and white, which says: CONFIRMED! New USS monitoring data shows £0.5bn can be returned to the retirement funds of 200,000 university workers Losses can be backdated to April 2022 when cuts came in Scheme would still be in surplus GIVE BACK OUR PENSIONS NOW #ucuRISING

ALT UCU graphic in hot pink and white, which says: CONFIRMED! New USS monitoring data shows £0.5bn can be returned to the retirement funds of 200,000 university workers Losses can be backdated to April 2022 when cuts came in Scheme would still be in surplus GIVE BACK OUR PENSIONS NOW #ucuRISING

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raving within and beyond war's shadow - great new piece by @DrDeiana in @CritMilStudies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Dance as a register of war: following unruly bodies, affects, and sounds in conflict

What do people do in the face of violence, war, and tragedy? How do those touched by violence survive, live on, keep on going and feeling? What if ‘dance first, think later’ IS the natural order? I...

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How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains? It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:
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🚨WE'RE HIRING #2🚨 Academic Outreach Coordinator (Consultant) We're looking for an experienced academic with a great network, impressive research, and a passion for developing alternative approaches to security. Please help us share the message! Thanks! rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/wo…
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Come and work with us! Lectureship in Sociology at the Open University. Deadline 6th Sept. jobs.ac.uk/job/CSH876/lectur…
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Just seen the message from @OpenUniversity that Aug 1st is here and now the OU's Associate Lecturers are on permanent contracts - after 53 years of temporary employment. c. 4000 workers decasualised, a brilliant victory by @oubucu.
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Kevin McSorley@kevmcs3116 Jun 2022
I’m talking Friday June 24th at 12pm on: ‘To Smell is to Kill: Sensate Regimes of War and Martial Power’, as part of the Open University’s new Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) seminar series @OU_SSGS All welcome, register online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-smell-…
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