The University of Manchester

Faculty Member, Sociology

Lecturer in Sociology

About

I am a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

My research is interdisciplinary and explores the ambiguous status of nonhumans in modern knowledge-practices and the asymmetric constitution of ‘the social’ across materially heterogeneous (and inter-species) relations, systems and flows. My first book - a sociomaterial and posthumanist history of milk - was published by Routledge in 2010:

http://www.routledge.com/books/Milk-Modernity-and-the-Making-of-the-Human-isbn9780415558747

I am one of two Associate Editors of the Sage journal Cultural Sociology, and I am on the Associate Editorial Board of the British Sociological Association journal Sociology.

For as long as I can remember my existential imagination has been entranced by the myth of Sisyphus, and by Camus' insight that 'we must imagine Sisyphus happy'. Perhaps that's why when I'm not working I can generally be found trying to overcome or surmount a resistant or immovable object!

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