Theory to the People

Here are some of the resources I’ve developed for theory teaching.

I’ve been teaching theory since my first full-time academic position, bac in 2009. At Durham, I currently (2021/2) teach two undergraduate theory modules (Modern and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Social Theory and Politics of Knowledge) and one postgraduate theory module (Public Sociology: Theory and Practice), but theory is at the core of what I do. Some of the resources I share here have been developed for these modules, others not. Feel free to use them but make sure you cite/credit properly, and, even better, let me know. Make sure you read the disclaimers first.

People talking about people

I rarely talk about Buddhism. One part of this has to do with the fact I generally rarely talk about personal stuff, and people rarely ask. Another has to do with a general disinclination towards “identities”, be they gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, profession, or anything else (a Buddhist would say that, though 😀). One part…

Roots

[I have been a bit behind with Against academic monocultures series, mostly because of travel and spending increasing amounts of time offline. This is part 4; parts 3 (Preservation), 2 (On Drying Up), and 1 (Abundance) are accessible to subscribers. There are several posts in waiting – most of those I had written at the…

Books in 2025

If you read my blog, you’re probably familiar with my (attempt at a) tradition to post the most meaningful books I’ve read in the preceding year. I started this in 2021, when – not least connected to my work on epistemic positioning and the differential valuation of people who do not fit a particular ‘type’…

On drying up

There is a sentence in Se Trouver, a beautiful collection of interviews Laure Leter conducted with Anne Dufourmantelle (who happens to be one of my favourite thinkers and writers ever, sadly prematurely dead and, in an even more regular biographical detail of thinkers who are not men, too little known) – where Dufourmantelle says: “Ainsi,…

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