WealthTalks

@VolkswagenSt-funded research project on the (re-)production of wealth inequality in everyday talk in Botswana, Brazil, Germany, South Africa & United States

[Susanne Reinhardt (she/her) @srein_]

Our first project publication @wealthtalksvw is out! #OpenAccess Why should we study how ordinary people talk about #economicinequality & how should we go about it? /w D. Schieferdecker, @cteeger @JonathanMijs @GraziellaMorae2 @FlavioCarvalha2, J. Seekings https://t.co/UShCMfUQBS

[arturo bertero @arturobertero]

🎉We know a lot about people’s beliefs on inequality, but how do they fit together? Delighted to present our new paper w/ @g_franetovic @JonathanMijs in Social Indicators Research @SpringerNature. We introduce "inequality belief systems" to study them as a network. 1/14

[Susanne Reinhardt (she/her) @srein_]

Out now: This terrific SI, that I am happy to have contributed to! Find my contribution on distinctive appropriations of digital spaces by feminist and far-right/antifeminist counterpublics here: https://t.co/1ge1NPVAih

[Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social @cteeger]

My book is out! (almost...author copies are here!)

An ethnography of history education in 🇿🇦schools, it shows how teaching about the past is not enough. When the past is remembered, but its legacies ignored, racism can continue unabated in the present.

https://t.co/Gldf1jIakN

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

Why do people maintain that theirs is a meritocratic society?

In @SF_Journal, Adaner Usmani & I present a *sociological simulation* to show how the same social forces that produce inequality also distort people’s ability to see it for what it is https://t.co/Co3P1gDrfJ (1/9)

[ThijsLin @ThijsLin]

Publication alert!📣
While more and more people are pulled into precarity, support for a universal basic income remains limited. Does belief in meritocracy have anything to do with it? Find out in our #OpenAccess paper in @EuroSocieties1 https://t.co/rzrl3KcmbD [1/10]

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

What do Americans 🗽 and the Dutch🌷know about racial & ethnic inequalities? Are they willing to change their beliefs after learning the facts?

Working with @BUsociologydept graduates Nikki Huang and Will Regan, here's what we learned
https://t.co/BVq88PbOWS @DuBoisReview (1/18)

[Susanne Reinhardt (she/her) @srein_]

Very happy to join @WealthTalksVW as a (post-)doctoral researcher today. In the upcoming four years, we will make hundreds of people around the globe discuss economic inequality to better understand the (re-)production of wealth inequality in everyday conversations 🤓

[Tax Justice South Africa @TaxJustice_SA]

South Africa is facing a fiscal crisis, with many analysts predicting a R60 billion budget shortfall this year.
Almost half of that money has been stolen by criminal kingpins in the illicit cigarette trade, according to @OxfordEconomics.
#LockThemUp #StopSkyfCapture

[Alex Cobham @alexcobham.bsky.social @alexcobham]

Who knew? @SamuelLJackson is a #taxjustice champion https://t.co/IZxG9zWA2E

[WealthTalks @wealthtalksvw]

Brilliant new work by our team member @cteeger @LSEnews shows how boredom is mobilized in South African high school education to avoid confronting legacies of racism

[Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social @cteeger]

New article in AJS: "(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion." A 🧵 on the paper's main arguments and contributions https://t.co/lY0QCkXGhS

[WealthTalks @wealthtalksvw]

📢Job alert: postdoc or PhD student close to completion to join @wealthtalksvw 🇧🇷🇧🇼🇩🇪🇿🇦🇺🇸 project @FU_Berlin (FT, 4 years)

Required: strong quantitative content analysis skills

We offer: job security, flexibility, travel budget, authorship

Apply here: https://t.co/dPwb7EqCkl