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This is the audio version of S.A. Hamed Hosseini’s lecture, transcribed and subsequently edited and refined by the author; the lecture was delivered on 3 April 2025 as his Week 6 Lecture in SOCS2200-Social Analysis at the University of Newcastle.

This is the audio version of S.A. Hamed Hosseini’s lecture, transcribed and subsequently edited and refined by the author; the lecture was delivered on 10 April 2025 as his Week 7 Lecture in SOCS2200-Social Analysis at the University of Newcastle.

This episode gives a conversational overview of the essay: " Disposable Futures: Racial Capitalism and the Infrastructures of Inequality " by S A Hamed Hosseini

This episode presents a conversational overview of the essay Flexible Bodies, Fixed Inequalities: The Gendered Dynamism of Capital, written by S A Hamed Hosseini

This episode, generated using AI under S. A. H. Hosseini's supervision, offers a conversational overview of the following source: Laster Pirtle, W. N. (2020). Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19)  Pandemic Inequities in the United States,  Health Education & Behavior , 47(4), 504-08. 

This episode offers a conversational overview of the following book, generated by AI under S. A. H. Hosseini 's supervision: Matlon, J. (2024). Ten Theses of Racial Capitalism. Critical Sociology , 50(7-8), 1151-66. 

This AI-generated conversation presents an overview of the following source, making it more accessible to undergrad students in social sciences: Bhattacharya, T., Farris, S. R. & Ferguson, S. (2022)  Social Reproduction Feminisms , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 45-67),Made under S.A.H. Hosseini's supervision.

Gives an AI-generated overview of the following source, making it more accessible to undergrad students in social sciences (generated under the supervision of S. A. H. Hosseini): Dawson, M. (2017).  Selma James, Andrea Dworkin, and Their Interlocutors: Feminist Alternatives . In  Social Theory for Alternative Societies  (pp. 121–140). London: Bloomsbury Academic. 

Provides an AI-generated conversational overview of the following source, making it accessible to undergrad students in social sciences (created under the S. A. H. Hosseini's supervision): Bieler, A. & Morton, A. D. (2021)  Is Capitalism Structurally Indifferent to Gender ?: Routes to a Value Theory of Reproductive Labour,  Environment and planning. A , 53(7), 1749-69.

Gives an an AI generated overview of the following source, making it accessible to the undergraduate students in social science:Arruzza, C. (2022)  Three Debates in Marxist Feminism , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 1354-72).

This AI-generated conversation gives an overview of gender and Marxism, as per the following source: Farris, S. R. (2022).  Gender , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 268-295),

This AI-generated conversation is made on the basis of the following source, giving an overview and making it accessible to students. Bhandar, B. (2022)  Race , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 232-47), 

This chapter by Nancy Fraser, titled "Glutton for Punishment: Why Capitalism Is Structurally Racist," in her book Cannibal Capitalism, offers a nuanced perspective on the enduring relationship between capitalism and racial oppression. This AI-generated conversation under S A Hamed Hosseini's supervision gives a conversational overview of the chapter.

Using the chapter, Ritzer, G. & Stepnisky, J. (2022) Theories of Race and Colonialism - Chapter 9 Download Theories of Race and Colonialism - Chapter 9, in Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, Los Angeles: SAGE. (pp. 257-294) This AI generated conversation goes throgh ten general questions from the chapter that can be turned into muiltiple choice questions.

AI generated conversation on the basis of Ritzer, G. & Stepnisky, J. (2022)  Theories of Race and Colonialism - Chapter 9  Download Theories of Race and Colonialism - Chapter 9 , in  Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics , Los Angeles: SAGE. (pp. 257-294)

Using Lengermann, P. M. & Niebrugge, G. (2022) Chapter 8 - Contemporary Feminist Theories , in Ritzer, G. & Stepnisky, J. (eds). Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, Los Angeles: SAGE. (pp. 217-255) This AI-generated conversation reviews 15 general questions that can be used to design quiz questions about the topic.

Nancy Fraser argues that capitalism inherently exploits and devalues social reproduction—the unpaid care work essential to sustaining life and labor—while structurally relying on it, creating a fundamental contradiction. She demonstrates how capitalism’s separation of "productive" (paid, male-dominated) and "reproductive" (unpaid, female-dominated) labor enforces gender oppress...

This conversational overview, created using AI, provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary feminist theories within sociology based on the following source: Ritzer, G. & Stepnisky, J. (2022)  Chapter 8 - Contemporary Feminist Theories   in  Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots : The Basics, Los Angeles: SAGE. (pp. 217-255) It begins by outlining fundamental questions...

The conversation discusses eight questions derived from Dillon, M. (2019), Chapter Eleven: Michel Foucault: Theorizing Sexuality, the Body, and Power , in  Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and Their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century  (pp. 369-+), United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,

The AI-generated conversation, under S. A. Hamed Hosseini's supervision, reviews 12 potential questions and guides the students on how to study the text and prepare to answer the questions.

The conversation reviews: Giorgi, A. (2022).  Punishment . In B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano, S. Bromberg (Eds.)  Punishment (Vol. 3, pp. 212-231). SAGE Publications Ltd,This source from the  Sage Handbook of Marxism  examines the relationship between  capitalist transformations and the evolution of punishment . It argues that the  shift to neoliberal governance  has led to increased social i...

The conversation reviews the chapter by: Drucker, P. (2022)  Queer Studies , in B. Skeggs, S. R. Farris, A. Toscano & S. Bromberg (eds.)  The Sage Handbook of Marxism  (pp. 998-1012)

This chapter from Dillon's "Introduction to Sociological Theory" explores  Michel Foucault's theories on power, the body, and sexuality , highlighting concepts like  disciplinary practices, bio-power, and the social construction of sexuality . It examines how  institutions and discourses regulate bodies and shape our understanding of sex . The text further discusses the developme...

This academic chapter from Harris's 2024 work, "Post-structuralism and Post-Modernism," introduces the core concepts of these intellectual movements that emerged in the late 1960s, challenging established Enlightenment thinking and structuralism. It outlines key figures like Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, and Baudrillard, explaining concepts such as discourse, deconstruction, hyperreali...

This episode examines how the Frankfurt School's critical theory can illuminate the entwinement of capitalism with gender and racial inequality. It poses questions about whether these inequalities are structural necessities or historically flexible, exploring concepts like the culture industry's role in reinforcing stereotypes and how  false needs  manipulate desires. The text further anal...