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About Matt Dawson
Matt is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow with research interests in Social Theory, the History of Sociology and Normativity in the discipline. He is the author of G.D.H. Cole and British Sociology: A Study in Semi-Alienation (2024, Palgrave Macmillan), The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies (2023, Routledge), Social Theory for Alternative Societies (2016, Bloomsbury) and Late Modernity, Individualization and Socialism: An Associational Critique of Neoliberalism (2013, Palgrave Macmillan).NBN Episodes hosted by Matt:
April 7, 2026
The Trouble with Freedom
As Melissa Butcher puts it in her book The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future (Manchester UP, 2026) when asked to rank the importan…
March 19, 2026
The Unruly Facts of Race
What happens when theories of racial hierarchies interact with reality? How are they contested, refuted and changed in light of that encounter? What r…
February 3, 2026
Changing Scotland
Scotland is a nation that has undergone significant changes over the last 50 years or so. This is, of course, true of much of the Western world but, a…
November 30, 2025
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity
Henri Lefebvre is a writer who has had many competing claims for ownership, from sociology to philosophy to urban geography, different scholars have a…
June 8, 2025
The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads
Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism (Verso, 2025) encourages to look again at the int…
May 25, 2025
Erving Manuel Goffman
We have long lacked a biography of Erving Goffman. Partly this can be explained by Goffman’s direction for his papers not to be opened to researchers …
February 22, 2025
Erving Goffman and the Cold War
Erving Goffman has always seen as somewhat of an enigma by sociologists and historians of the discipline. In his provocative new book Erving Goffman a…
January 24, 2025
Class and the Uses of Poetry
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making grandiose claims that sociology is/should be like…
December 16, 2024
Theory and Society
The publication of Theory and Society in 2024 bought to conclusion a three volume collection of The Selected Writings of Zygmunt Bauman. Preceded by C…
December 6, 2024
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
It is only in recent years that sociologists and historians of the social sciences have given empire the attention it deserves in histories of the dis…
October 13, 2024
Making the Revolution Global
Theo Williams’ Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation (Verso, 2022) shows how black r…
September 26, 2024
The Academic Trumpists
Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’? These elements of the Trump presidency spoke to …
September 22, 2024
Zygmunt Bauman and the West
Jack Palmer’s Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) invites us to reconsider a figure…
August 30, 2024
Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970
Lise Butler’s Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-70 (Oxford UP, 2020) invites us to revisit a figure who, in Butler’s words, is …