Publications

Here are the latest publications from our academics, encompassing journal articles, book chapters, books, working papers, and conference papers. For a comprehensive list of Deprtment of Sociology publications, please visit the  Research Online website.


  • Patrick, Ruth and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2025) Cuts and caps to benefits have always harmed people, not helped them into work. British Politics and Policy at (14 Mar 2025). Blog Entry.

  • Surak, Kristin ORCID: 0000-0001-5064-2579 (2025) What are the risks of investment migration? Going beyond the status quo. In: Kochenov, Dimitry, Sumption, Madeleine and van den Brink, Martijn, (eds.) Investment Migration in Europe and the World: Current Issues. Hart.

  • Surak, Kristin ORCID: 0000-0001-5064-2579 (2025) There's no golden lining for Trump's Gold Card. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (11 Mar 2025). Blog Entry.

  • Gronwald, Victoria (2025) The promises and limits of transparency: anti-tax evasion and anti-money laundering efforts in financial centres. III Working Paper (151). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Friese, Carrie ORCID: 0000-0001-7144-8046 (2025) A mouse in a cage: rethinking humanitarianism and the rights of lab animals. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479833481

  • Bühlmann, Felix, Christesen, Caroline Ahler, Cousin, Bruno, Denord, François, Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman, Lagneau‐Ymonet, Paul, Larsen, Anton Grau, Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564 , Thine, Sylvain, Young, Kevin, Araujo, Pedro, Arrigoni, Paola, Atria, Jorge, Benz, Pierre, Behr, Johanna, Botelho, Maria do Carmo, Butt, Asif, Casanova, Pedro, Clemente‐Casinhas, Luís, Castellani, Ana, Cescon, Fabio, Dagnes, Joselle, Debska, Hanna, Delval, Anne‐Sophie, Dragun, Vitalina, Egas, Andreia, Emilsson, Kajsa, Fan, Xiaoguang, Fu, Fan, Gentile, Julia, Gomes, Orlando, Gronwald, Victoria, Heredia, Mariana, Hjellbrekke, Johannes, Honório, Jorge, Huang, Jie, Inkley, Johnathan, Johansson, Håkan, Koiranen, Ilkka, Koivula, Aki, Kuusela, Hanna, Levita, Gabriel, Ling, Chao, Lu, Peng, Lukas, Michael, Lunding, Jacob, Mahmoudzadeh, Mina, McQuade, Sean, Méndez, María Luisa, Nunes, Nuno, O'Brien, Shay, Otero, Gabriel, Pagnini, Marta, Pelfini, Alejandro, Pereira, Jéssica, Roa, Catalina, Rossier, Thierry, Saga, Marte Lund, Santana, Dulce, Schneickert, Christian, Schimpfössl, Elisabeth, Schoenberger, François, Solipa, Izaura, Trembaczowski, Łukasz, Toft, Maren, Vale, Sofia, Vasconcelos, Pedro, Velazco, Jorge Quesada, Warczok, Tomasz and Yu, Xinguo (2025) Varieties of economic elites? Preliminary results from the World Elite Database (WED). British Journal of Sociology. ISSN 0007-1315

  • Ali, Suki ORCID: 0000-0002-8616-0376 (2025) Mixed race thought: making and unmaking (mixed) race. Critique of Anthropology. ISSN 0308-275X (In Press)

  • Loopstra, Rachel, Geiger, Ben Baumberg and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2025) Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits by £20 per week in 2020-21 reduce food insecurity? Journal of Social Policy. ISSN 0047-2794 (In Press)

  • McGovern, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-3984-2080 , Thielemann, Eiko R. ORCID: 0009-0003-0563-9436 and Hammoud Gallego, Omar (2025) The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers. Comparative Migration Studies, 13. ISSN 2214-594X

  • Tonkiss, Fran ORCID: 0009-0001-8484-0669 (2025) Urban theory in anti-theoretical times. Dialogues in Urban Research, 3 (1). 50 - 54. ISSN 2754-1258

  • Okamoto, Limichi (2025) Ethnocratic localism and affective politics: unmasking right-wing imaginaries in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movements. Javnost - the Public. ISSN 1318-3222 (In Press)

  • Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564 (2025) Some personal reflections on the "mentorship paradox". Sociologica, 18 (3). 31 - 36. ISSN 1971-8853

  • Bhatt, Chetan ORCID: 0000-0002-4025-4203 (2024) The revolutionary road to me: identity politics and the Western left. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781509559541

  • Bhatt, Chetan ORCID: 0000-0002-4025-4203 (2024) The revolutionary road to me: identity politics and the Western left. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781509559541

  • Taha, Mai ORCID: 0000-0002-7313-4048 (2023) Thinking through the home: work, rent, and the reproduction of society. Social Research, 90 (4). pp. 837-858. ISSN 0037-783X

  • Taha, Mai ORCID: 0000-0002-7313-4048 (2025) Insurgent social reproduction: the home, the barricade and women’s work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution. Theory, Culture and Society. ISSN 1460-3616 (In Press)

  • Rutazibwa, Olivia Umurerwa ORCID: 0000-0002-1123-2355 , Pallí-Asperó, Cira and Destrooper, Tine (2025) Historical truth as a tool for decolonisation: Cira Pallí-asperó and Tine Destrooper in conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa. Rethinking History. ISSN 1364-2529

  • Muggleton, Naomi, Rahal, Charles and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2025) Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Computational Social Science, 8 (2). ISSN 2432-2717

  • Surak, Kristin ORCID: 0000-0001-5064-2579 (2025) Myths at work: taming imperial histories with tea. Contemporary Japan. ISSN 1869-2729

  • Salem, Sara ORCID: 0000-0002-7872-5613 (2024) Jean-Yves Frétigné. To live is to resist: the life of Antonio Gramsci. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 328. Paper $19.95. American Historical Review, 129 (4). 1817 - 1818. ISSN 0002-8762