Bev Skeggs
Professor
Sociology
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Bev Skeggs worked at the Worcester College of Higher Education and the Universities of Keele, York, Lancaster and Manchester before joining the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths. Bev worked in the areas of Women’s Studies and Cultural Studies as well as Sociology. In July 2011, Bev became the joint managing editor of the journal The Sociological Review, a major journal which has just celebrated 100 years of shaping the field. Bev is incredibly proud to make a small intervention into its illustrious history.
Research Interest
Research interests: class, media and cultural formations, feminist and poststructuralist theory, Pierre Bourdieu and Marx, spatial formations. Bev's research interests consolidate around the issue of value and values. How do we know what value and values are? What do they do? Bev only realized this was my central concern recently when she was asked to summarise my work and noticed that all her research has been framed around these issues. Hence value/s has led her through issues of respectability in class and gender formation, an exploration of symbolic value through media and cultural formations; using feminist and poststructuralist theory, Pierre Bourdieu and to the economic abstractions of Marx,
Publications
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Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism Ahmed, Sara; Lury, Celia; McNeil, Maurenn; Kilby, Jane and Skeggs, Bev, eds. 2000. Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415220675
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Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value Skeggs, Bev and Wood, Helen. 2012. Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-69370-7
