Having spent much of the past year writing about research methods, I found myself returning to a book I had not read properly for many years: C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination. Published in 1959, it is still surprisingly fresh, especially when Mills turns from criticising sociology to explaining how researchers should actually go about… Continue reading Revisiting C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
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The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer principally known for her novels and short stories while her TED talks on ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ [1] and ‘We Should All Be Feminists' [2] are widely viewed. Her most well-known novel is ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ [3] which deals with Biafran independence and the ensuing… Continue reading The Thing Around Your Neck
Question 7
One of the most praised books, at least by reviewers, in 2023 was ‘Question 7’ by Richard Flanagan [1]. A year later, well two years later if I am strict about this, I got round to reading it. It is a difficult book to describe [2]. It is in the main a memoir and family… Continue reading Question 7
