Chantelle Lewis

How can infrastructure be criminal? How does a mine, a gas field, a suburban neighbourhood or a dam become a perpetrator of violence and insecurity? Surviving Society Presents: Material Crimes answers these questions. Each episode investigates a different piece of infrastructure, tracing its global, colonial connections across time and space.

About What is public sociology and why does it matter more than ever? Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis and Cecilia Menjívar join Michaela Benson to reflect on its meaning, value and stakes. In a time of perpetual crisis and gross inequality, how can sociologists best change minds and set agendas? Why are some voices valued over others? And who does being truly “public” involve more than simply being high profile?

Introduction The concept of neurodiversity was coined by an Australian sociology student, Judy Singer, in her 1996 dissertation – Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the ‘Autistic Spectrum’: A Personal Exploration of a New Social Movement based on Neurological Diversity. Singer – herself autistic – began corresponding with the US writer Harvey Blume, who would later popularise the concept in a 1998 issue of The Atlantic (Blume, 1998).