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SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE

Sociological Research Online is an international, peer-reviewed journal published in English that promotes rapid communication among sociologists without limitation of topic or approach. It publishes high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions that engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates. Articles published by Sociological Research Online are concerned with the application of sociological forms of analysis to a wide range of public issues and private concerns, thereby demonstrating the wide social relevance of sociological research and theory to understanding contemporary social issues.

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Sociological Research Online 為季刊，最新一期（Volume 31 Issue 1, March 2026）分為“Articles”“Sociology in Action”“Beyond the text”“Book Reviews”四個欄目，共計17篇文章，詳情如下。

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Articles

Towards a Beckian Approach to Social Movements: Between Surveillance and Subpolitical Counter-Power

Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

By drawing upon concepts from Ulrich Beck’s work on risk, reflexivity, contestation, and subpolitical power, this article produces an understanding of social movement?based critiques of surveillance and argues for the promise of Beckian (conceptual) approaches in analyses of social movements’ power. While Beck argued, in his final book, that intensified surveillance constitutes a new epoch of the ‘risk society’, characterized by global digital freedom risks, little attention has been paid to how social movements contest such risks in ‘risk societies’. Responding to calls for research on these risks’ social consequences, thus filling this lacuna, this article advances our knowledge on Beck’s social theory and surveillance-related critiques by using the empirical example of football supporter movements and their surveillance-related contestations. As argued, this case example reveals civil society, movement field coalitions, and digital freedom risks’ emancipatory potential but historical significance.

Autoethnography and Collaborative Autoethnography for Early-Career Researchers’ Professional Development and Empowerment: An Autoethnography

Shinya Uekusa

This autoethnographic article aims to advocate for the use of autoethnography (AE) and collaborative autoethnography (CAE) as both methodological tools and avenues for professional development and empowerment among early-career researchers (ECRs). Through an exploration of the significance of AE and CAE, particularly for ECRs, this article underscores their value in decolonizing research practices and shaping the future of scholarly inquiry. Drawing on personal experience and relevant literature, the article discusses how these methodological approaches have played a pivotal role in the author’s maturation and establishment within academia. It delves into how, as methodological processes, AE and CAE empower ECRs in various ways: (1) amplifying ECR voices in academia; (2) cultivating sociological imagination, critical analytical skills, and scholarly confidence; (3) enhancing ECRs’ positionality and reflexivity in research; (4) fostering solidarity, liberation, and activism, particularly through CAE; and (5) providing publishing opportunities.

No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability

Patricia Hamilton

First described by historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the politics of respectability captures the both ‘conservative and radical’ approach of black Baptist women of the early 20th century in their efforts to address racism in the United States. Respectability politics focused on altering individual behaviour as a strategy for achieving social change and have recently regained prominence, reflecting the contemporary neoliberal moment. In this article, I use the frame of respectability politics to examine the experiences of contemporary black mothers, particularly drawing a comparison between the politics of respectability and attachment parenting (AP), a popular childrearing philosophy. I argue that the appeal of respectability flows along classed lines with middle-class black mothers developing an AP-informed parenting practice that deploys respectability as a protective shield for their children. This finding suggests the importance of attending to intraracial class politics as we practice intersectionality and theorise about the new realities of black motherhood.

Warm Spaces as a New Manifestation of Austerity Localism

Richard Machin, Carolin Hess

It is estimated that during the winter of 2023–2024, over 2 million people visited a warm space in the UK. More than 4,000 warm spaces were set up, primarily by third-sector organisations, to support people facing spiralling fuel prices and the cost-of-living crisis. This research uses a single-case-study design combining observations and 21 semi-structured interviews at a warm space in England. The article analyses warm spaces as an emerging form of localised welfare provision, investigating the lived experience and resilience of attendees in the face of austerity and the role of the warm space in responding to it. We use austerity localism as an analytical framework to explore the broader policy backdrop against which warm spaces emerged. Our findings contribute to a growing evidence base demonstrating the impact of welfare state retrenchment on local organisations, which are increasingly compelled to provide essential services traditionally seen as a function of the state. While providing a safe and welcoming environment for attendees, the regressive consequences of austerity localism were evident as the warm space was unable to resist and challenge the hardship and inequalities provoked by the rolling back of the state.

Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment

Sazana Jayadeva

This article examines the rising postgraduate-level student migration of Indian engineers to Germany, drawing on interviews with 42 Indians who were applying to, currently pursuing, or had recently graduated from engineering Master’s degrees in Germany. It illustrates how the affordable cost of study in Germany had made postgraduate study abroad a feasible strategy for the study participants to escape the unfavourable job market for graduates of engineering undergraduate programmes in India, and attempt to realise their professional ambitions through acquiring post-study work experience at German engineering companies. Such work experience was viewed as having greater social currency in the Indian engineering job market, where most wished to return eventually, than overseas education credentials. Moreover, the article demonstrates how imaginings of Germany as an engineering superpower underpinned the value associated with gaining engineering work experience in the country. This case study shows how in contexts where international students anticipate that the portability of overseas education to a target labour market is uncertain, post-study work experience may be viewed as a safer form of cultural capital to accumulate. Acquiring post-study work experience abroad may then not just be a way to supplement overseas education credentials, as described in existing literature, but the primary motivator of study abroad. It also highlights how, in such contexts, place-based markers of distinction related to a country’s reputation in a particular occupational field can be more relevant in attracting international students than markers of distinction associated with the quality or prestige of its higher education institutions.

‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid

Kate Haddow

In the last decade, there has been a vast increase in research into the rise of food aid, particularly food banks, in wealthier countries. However, what has been less prominent so far is an exploration of food aid beyond the foodbank model. This article explores alternative forms of food aid – or ‘free food places’ – and what they offer in terms of provision and support, who uses them and why. Set in North East England in a post-industrial town, this study was based on ethnographic research of eight sites of food aid over a 7-month period where the researcher queued, sat with participants, and observed proceedings at these sites. This was accompanied by 11 semi-structured interviews with mainly single White British men and 3 British Women in need of food aid daily. This article argues that the free food places act as a safety net below foodbanks for some of the most deprived people in society who are often unaware of foodbanks and/or excluded from accessing them due to a referral system. This suggests that even within food aid, there is a hierarchy in which free food places are below foodbanks. The results showed that participants chose to access the free food places over foodbanks for reasons of companionship, sociability, and a lack of knowledge about foodbanks. The free food places also offered food that was ready to be consumed instantly and required no cooking or preparation, meeting the needs of participants who were often destitute.

Sociology in Action

Unveiling the Veil: Examining Social Injustice and Marginalisation of Transgender Persons in Kashmir, India

Khalid Wasim Hassan, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani, Janan Ahmad Parray

The marginalisation of transgender individuals in Kashmir is a complex and deeply ingrained problem characterised by various obstacles, including bias, intimidation, and domestic violence. In the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir, the marginalisation experienced by transgender individuals can be attributed to their perceived status as ‘other’ or a deviation from established social norms, resulting in their exclusion from the dominant societal framework. This paper will explore the socio-cultural and economic marginalisation experienced by the transgender community in Kashmir and critically examine the various policies/acts by the state and central government vis-à-vis transgender people Based on the narratives from members of the transgender community during the fieldwork, the paper also aims to unveil the various forms of discrimination and violence experienced by the members of the transgender community in Kashmir in private and public spaces. Finally, this paper will also shed light on the ‘rights’ of transgender people within the framework of Islam.

Imposter Participants: A Call for Social Science Intervention

Azeem Aziz Merchant, Sophie Atherton, Jaime García-Iglesias

The rise of ‘imposter participants’ in research – individuals who misrepresent their identities or experiences to gain access to studies1 – has become a contentious issue, particularly as online research methods have expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing literature suggests indicators and strategies for identifying such participants, current approaches may risk excluding marginalized groups. This article reframes the discussion, arguing that the current focus on detection and exclusion requires broader epistemological debate. We propose that, rather than focusing on better screening tools, social sciences should use imposter participants to reflect on authenticity in research and authority in knowledge production. These reflections are a crucial first step in addressing broader questions of inclusion, exclusion, and research integrity. Rather than offering solutions, this article seeks to provoke a conversation about the evolving challenges of participant verification in an increasingly digital and diverse research landscape.

Design Sociology in Action: Exploring and Visualizing Gendered Experiences

Anna Isaksson

This article builds on Deborah Lupton’s concept of design sociology. It explores the potential of this approach for examining and visualizing experiences and how they are coordinated by social institutions and discourses. Particularly the article highlights how design sociology can contribute to scholars and fields that focus on gender issues and recognize experiences as an epistemological resource. By revisiting two previous research projects, one addressing power imbalances and neglected experiences in reproductive healthcare and the other examining the undervaluation of experiences and care-based knowledge in the female-dominated care sector, the article demonstrates how practicing this approach can reveal and visualize gendered experiences and their connection to social structures in a novel way. Consequently, it is argued that design sociology is relevant for feminist and gender studies, as well as sociology more broadly.

Uncovering Inequalities in Greenspace Access: An Intersectional Agenda for New Sociological Enquiry

Joshua Garland

Urbanisation, lifestyles and environmental degradation are associated with negative health and environmental outcomes through reducing greenspace access. These risks are not experienced equally across society. While useful concepts like ‘extinction of experience’ exist, sociological writing on these important themes remains underdeveloped. Using regression and analysis of variance with survey data representative of England’s population, this gap was addressed. This Sociology in Action article presents initial findings revealing inequalities according to ethnicity, sex, education and health. It stresses intersectionality’s importance while highlighting insightful avenues for sociological research as a discipline with much to contribute to existing debates. Concluding remarks strongly suggest mixed-method projects foregrounding intersectionality to investigate greenspace access inequalities, posing important questions with policy relevance.

Beyond the Text

Connecting to Cognition: A Methodological Journey With Urban Dementia

James Rupert Fletcher

Contemporary sociological developments spanning the ontological turn, post-cognitivism, biosocial transdisciplinarity, post-qualitative inquiry, and new empiricism are opening up novel sites of methodological contention regarding the nature of cognition as a research object. While these developments are conceptually stimulating, their (potential) overlapping methodological implications are under-explicated. Outlining a moving ethnography of urban transport use by passengers with dementia, in this article I delve into the more pragmatic methodological contingencies of attempts to engage with cognition as a fundamentally ecological phenomenon. Blurring the boundaries between the management and analysis of data, I develop a laborious and meditative ‘journeying analysis’ as a means of dealing with an unruly dataset. In line with post-qualitative commitments, I pursue a somewhat haphazard approach to anti-representation, while nonetheless embracing the researcher-centrism of doing research. I advocate creative digital strategies – for example, map-making, soundscaping – for cultivating data forms that offer multiple possibilities for audiences to forge new connections with the study phenomena.

Ceasefire Now: A Zine About Action for Palestine

Randa Abdel-Fattah

This zine emerged as a creative output of my Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project investigating and archiving Arab-Australian intersectional, decolonial, transnational, solidarity activism as a constitutive dimension of Australian political culture and social movement participation. I was inspired to create this zine through my immersion in a network of activists and academics responding to Israel’s current war on Gaza. The zine captures the period of activism between 7 October and December 2023. I was drawn to the medium of the zine to capture, recognise, and bear witness to the frenzy of knowledge production, in-the-moment theorising, cultural work, collective protest and solidarity practices between Palestinians, Bla(c)k/Indigenous and diaspora communities, anti-Zionist Jews and white allies in this particular moment. This zine will advance knowledge of a neglected but significant dimension of Australian social movement participation, offering insights into how scholar-activists and grassroots campaigners working together in concrete struggle theorise and strategise outside the formal circuits of scholarly production and institutional spaces. This zine is a work in progress because genocide is in process and so the record of labour, collective action and practices of solidarity documented in these pages are offered as a generative site for circulating ideas and cultural interventions in the present.

Illustrating Everyday Life: Developing a Series of Zines to Reflect the Meaning of Neighbourhoods for People Living With Dementia

Andrew Clark, Sarah Campbell, Domenique Brouwers

This Beyond the Text submission presents a series of three graphic magazines (zines) as part of a research project about how people living with dementia experience their neighbourhoods and communities of place. The zines were produced through a collaboration of a graphic artist, academics and a small group of people living with dementia and/or family carers. The zines were designed to reflect the wider findings of the research. The idea to produce the zines came from people living with dementia themselves who were keen that the research findings reached beyond at academic audience, while at the same time were not turned into ‘yet another leaflet about dementia’. We have published the findings from the research in a number of academic formats, but have not yet had the opportunity to showcase the zines to a wider, and more diverse audience beyond our circle of research supporters, stakeholders and research participants.

Sustainable City Stories – A Short Film Reflecting on Sustainability in Woolwich, London as Observed Walking by an Intergenerational Group of Residents

Marianne Markowski, Helen Tennison

This short film is an artistic response to the collected observations and narratives from an intergenerational walking activity with residents in Woolwich, and for which Ms Tennison and Dr Markowski received pilot funding from the University of Greenwich. This artistic response, using authentic contributions by participants’ theatre, artistically augmented by Ms Tennison, a theatre maker, aims to be considered as ‘a celebration of Woolwich’, that is, a place that participants cherished to be part of, despite a lack of green spaces and nature and ailing infrastructure. The original voice recordings in the film reflect the strong ‘sense of belonging’ that this project captured from the participants who did not know each other before the project. The project’s outputs (including this video) show that Woolwich is a place where sustainability is treasured because participants felt safe and connected to Woolwich, and even more so after this participatory project. This film has been shared with local community organisations, so it could be used to strengthen discussions on and subsequent actions for sustainability.

Book Reviews

Book Review: Duane Rousselle, Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond

Martial Fanga Agbor

Book Review: Kalyani Devaki Menon, Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India

Atufah Nishat

Book Review: Jingyu Mao, Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China

Yubai Li

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