Kevin McSorley

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

[OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @OU_GCSJ]

📽️ 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.

🔗https://t.co/UyXN9OO0ef

#Colonialism #Jamaica

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

On holiday 4th July?🌞https://t.co/5Gk24qyM6m

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

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" https://t.co/xLOEWr7rpy

[CritMil Studies @CritMilStudies]

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: https://t.co/uJSmmr8aRG

[CritMil Studies @CritMilStudies]

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 (https://t.co/muYRTqRpCX) on 11 Sept 2023, 12.30-1400 UK time!

[OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @OU_GCSJ]

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 👉https://t.co/0ygkIYoAtc
@Usherwood @ourmiltonkeynes @IFMKfest @mk_citizen

[Sarah Maltby @warandmedia]

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 https://t.co/gQZBPlZEAc

[Caroline Holmqvist @carolinehojo]

@dradanielsson and I are co-chairing the section, please find this year’s CfP here

[Covid Chronicles from the Margins 🧡 @cov19chronicles]

“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

https://t.co/QVP6cEAnCn

[Kevin McSorley @kevmcs31]

My talk 'To Smell is to Kill: Sensate Regimes of War and Martial Power' now online here:

https://t.co/mdDztBJrjb

[UCU @ucu]

🚨BREAKING: USS NEWS!🚨

Give us back our pensions - now!

#ucuRISING

[Kevin McSorley @kevmcs31]

raving within and beyond war's shadow - great new piece by @DrDeiana in @CritMilStudies

https://t.co/Ei5RpL5qfc

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

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:

[Kevin McSorley @kevmcs31]

@warmatters Friends House at Euston. Have organized a conference there, thoroughly recommend.

[Rethinking Security @RethinkingSecu1]

🚨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!
https://t.co/oTuPIIAvYG

[Kevin McSorley @kevmcs31]

Come and work with us! Lectureship in Sociology at the Open University. Deadline 6th Sept.
https://t.co/jzcz4RGtMY

[Dr. Chris A Williams, FRHS @OU_Williams]

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.