Sobia Ahmad Kaker
@SobieKaker
Followers
1K
Following
1K
Media
15
Statuses
1K
Lecturer, Dept of Sociology at Essex. Interested in urban inequalities, (in)security, violence and criminalisation in global south cities. All views my own
London
Joined February 2012
Super happy to announce the publication of an article long in formation: #Governing ‘ordinary’ #uncertainty: Circulating #information and #everyday #insecurity in #Karachi
https://t.co/511vTnOy6k
#uncertainty #Karachi @SecDialogue @UoECrim @essexsociology
journals.sagepub.com
The governing of uncertainty has been studied extensively within the interdisciplinary field of security studies. However, existing scholarship on security-rela...
6
10
24
#Parachinar is burning and no-one is even talking about it. Everyone, it seems just cares about their own cause. Is it a general lack of empathy or is it just Shia-phobia not letting you speak out on the burning situation of Parachinar and its people.
12
203
441
I’ve written to Goldsmiths to say I do not wish to be an Emeritus Professor of an institution that does not respect the universality of human rights or the importance of good ethical & scholarly practice.
I ran this programme. I invested years of my life, my energy, my health because even though it was small, poor, marginal, we did great things, spoke about important topics, tried to speak truth to power. It breaks my heart into a million pieces to see this. 💔
0
6
32
Shaza before anything else, can you please explain why, as IT Minister, you're using an app your govt banned for the rest of us while using a VPN that your govt also banned for the rest of us? Do you not feel even an iota of shame for the digital apartheid imposed in Pakistan in
‘Awaam rejects Fitna Call ✊
44
1K
4K
Security forces are firing directly at peaceful protesters using snipers, with many reports of fatalities among the demonstrators. The situation is rapidly deteriorating, and the people of Pakistan are facing extreme state repression. This Must Stop! #UndeclaredMartialLaw
73
2K
3K
which journalists + news networks are people relying on for unbiased on-ground news right now? trying to compile a list for people + the diaspora abroad seeking out updates from pakistan.
4
5
26
Shockingly violent tactics to suppress protesters in Islamabad. The civilian government goes on to alienate the public, and for whom? Poor political choices…
PAKISTAN: The government must fully protect and ensure the rights of protesters and immediately rescind the ‘shoot-on-sight’ orders that provide undue and excessive powers to the military. In response to protests by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Islamabad, the
3
2
4
Sobie Kaker presenting on an inspiring panel of scholars at our 60th Anniversary Conference, chaired by @MahfoudTara, with Gurminder Bhambra, Joan Busfield and Labour MP + honorary prof Pam Cox. @essexsociology @SobieKaker @ColchesterLab
0
3
9
100+ registrations for our 60th anniversary conference at @essexsociology this Friday. Featuring keynotes talks by @garyyounge, @nsharma101 and Gurminder Bhambra. Organized by the wonderful @IsabelCrowhurst @MahfoudTara, @SamuelSingler and others. Can't wait!
Join the @essexsociology as they celebrate 60 years of sociology at Essex. With exciting keynote speakers including @garyyounge, the conference brings together sociologists from Essex and beyond to discuss challenges, uncertainties and opportunities. https://t.co/STkTLJ5BmK
0
8
20
The Department of Sociology at Essex is celebrating its 60th anniversary! Joan Busfield and I developed a brief timeline of the department's history which you can see here:
60stories.essex.ac.uk
Celebrating 60 years of the Department of Sociology at University of Essex
2
3
15
Paedophile hunters and the dilemmas of vigilantism. C4C's Kat Hadjimatheou discusses the policing of online child sex offending on BBC Woman's Hour at 13mins:
bbc.co.uk
The Proms go disco with Vula Malinga.
0
4
3
So many replies to this. “Enjoy and support each other” seems to me to be the best. In a phD workshop our mentor said “put something out in the world that you would stand by” and since then academic writing was never the same to me.
Fast academia is toxic and should not be celebrated. It makes people sick and transforms a vocation into something vocational. Write fewer things and enjoy what you write. Focus on novelty over quantity. Learn from and support each other.
4
8
77
MIT University just released free online courses. No payment is required. Here are 7 courses you don't want to miss in 2024:
507
10K
61K
Incredibly brave and brilliant performance by Faiza to stand up to the bullying Labour Party machine. Their authoritarian actions gifted the seat to the conservatives. Hopefully @UKLabour HQ will be thinking about how to learn the right lessons from this.
They said we wouldn’t get anywhere. They put out graphs they knew were lies in order to confuse local people. They lied about me to mislead people. But in just 4 weeks we achieved the same vote as a political party that has been around for over 100 years. I’m so angry that the
9
14
100
Amazing news and huge congratulations to Professor Pam Cox! @WeareCRESI @MigEssex @CGSS_Essex @UoECrim @ciscUoE @EssexSocSci
Congratulations to Professor Pam Cox @essexsociology @Uni_of_Essex who is the new MP for the Colchester constituency. Read more in the Gazette: https://t.co/J4LWMxSp7W
1
7
45
We are saddened to learn of major redundancies at the Dept of Sociology at Goldsmiths as well as other universities. We join with @britsoci and other Sociology Depts across the nation in expressing and sending support and solidarity to our colleagues.
0
21
78
Kudos to @DurhamSociology and @UCLSociology for leading on institutional messages of support to our colleagues at Goldsmiths. This is a matter of utmost gravity + the value of institutional solidarity can't be underestimated. @essexsociology @UoECrim @MigEssex @WeareCRESI
0
5
18
The Department of Sociology & Criminology @essexsociology @Uni_of_Essex has two Professors standing in the general election. Professor Pam Cox for @UKLabour and Professor Andrew Canessa for @TheGreenParty This is a testament to public sociology at its best. Good luck!
0
4
29
This is particularly pertinent today as I receive news from my friends and colleagues about the brutal and unnecessary cuts which will mean the end of @SociologyGold as we know it - How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster
theguardian.com
The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right –...
2
57
143
The scale and depth of the disaster unfolding at @GoldsmithsUoL is confounding. This is intellectual vandalism. Complete, utter madness. My heart is with friends and colleagues at @SociologyGold. The hardship fund is here:
0
26
88
Glad this piece is out. Rethinking Downtown Cairo & Tahrir Square in the era of Sisi & the New Republic (New Egypt) thru unravelling the concept of "creative city" & open innovation & how they are used by different stakeholders, real estate, & state apparatus for soft control.
NEW: Exploring the creative city in post-revolutionary Downtown Cairo: On coworking spaces and neoliberal strategies in New Egypt. By Heba Mourad, @MomenElHusseiny & Zeinab Shafik https://t.co/yqbZR6YA5P
@RoutledgeGPU @JRE_UAA @UAAnews @DrBHanlon
#Downtown #neoliberalism #Egypt
5
3
18