Hi everyone,
This is from Dawn Lyon: please get back to her quickly today if you want to be added to the letter.
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best wishes
Tracey
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From: Dawn Lyon [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 April 2012 14:33
To: [log in to unmask]; Tim Strangleman; [log in to unmask]
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Subject: response to Chakrabortty in today's Guardian
Hi all,
Is anyone else annoyed by this? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/16/economics-has-failed-us-alternative-voices?commentpage=1#start-of-comments.
If you want to sign a letter to the Guardian - below - please let me know by 5pm today.
Feel free to circulate -
Thanks,
Dawn
PS Ignore my out of office...
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Aditya Chakrabortty’s 17 April 2012 column, ‘Economics has failed us: but where are the fresh voices?’ fails to recognise the diversity of sociological research that contributes to understanding social, cultural and economic life, including the current crisis. In particular, his column would have benefitted from a more careful reading of the British Sociological Association’s April 2012 conference programme (publicly available at: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/bsa-annual-conference/programme.aspx). It is the job of sociology to engage with the full scope of social life, including those areas Chakrabortty derides. That said, he might have drawn readers’ attention to the Work, Employment and Economic Life stream sub-plenary which tackled head-on ‘The Fallout from Austerity’ (also the subject of other sessions). Prof Diane Elson (University of Essex), chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, and Prof Linda McDowell (University of Oxford), author of Capital Culture, Gender at Work in the City, offered incisive critique from the perspectives of economics, geography and sociology on the nature of the crisis and what it means for social life and change.
Dawn Lyon
Lynne Pettinger
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Work, Employment and Economic Life Study Group
British Sociological Association
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Dr Dawn Lyon
Lecturer in Sociology & Director of Studies, BSc (Hons) Social Sciences
The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
University of Kent
Chatham Maritime
Kent ME4 4AG, UK
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